Unofficial Cardboard’s 2.0 Plus VR viewer includes something unique: adjustable lenses. Unofficial Cardboard Last year, Unofficial Cardboard was one of the first vendors to offer a Google Cardboard kit for folks who didn’t want to scrounge for parts, print diagrams, cut and fold cardboard and so on. Now, hot on the heels of Google’s Cardboard …
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5 June
How to search for GIF images for your Tumblr posts
You can now search for GIFs directly in Tumblr to animate your posts. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Tumblr users now don’t have to look far to find the perfect GIF file to animate their posts. On Thursday, the blogging site unveiled a new GIF search tool that lets you track down animated images to add some action to your posts …
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5 June
iHeartRadio notches 70 million registered users
iHeartRadio is the digital side to the country’s biggest terrestrial radio company. iHeartMedia iHeartRadio, the online arm of the traditional radio giant formerly known as Clear Channel, said Friday it hit 70 million people who have registered to listen to digital stations. The growth reflects both the growing popularity of streaming music generally as well as iHeartRadio’s promotional advantage of …
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5 June
Poll: What do you want to see from Apple’s WWDC?
Get ready for the biggest party of Swift programming language enthusiasts all year… Apple It’s an exciting time of year once again for Apple faithful as the company prepares for its Worldwide Developers Conference, starting Monday at Moscone Center in San Francisco. As its name suggests, WWDC is largely about upgrades to software, the lifeblood of Apple’s remarkably successful hardware, …
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4 June
Airbnb aims to boost home stays with ‘Price Tips’ tool
Airbnb’s Price Tips tool gives hosts a color-coded calendar with pricing recommendations. Airbnb SAN FRANCISCO — Airbnb wants to help its users become better businesspeople. The peer-to-peer home rental marketplace announced Thursday that it’s launching a tool designed to help hosts best decide what price to list their homes on the site. Related stories Business is booming, says Airbnb CEO …
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4 June
Get Facebook Lite for your Android device
Facebook Lite for Android. Nicole Cozma/CNET Editors’ Note, June 4, 2015: Facebook has officially announced the Lite version of their app. The official Facebook app takes up approximately 30MB of device storage, loads slowly and requires two separate apps if you want to message your friends. If you’re using a budget Android device, or your connection hovers around 2G speeds, …
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4 June
SoundCloud to pay thousands more indie artists
SoundCloud, led by CEO Alex Ljung, has grown into one of the biggest sources for music online — and one of the most complicated ones for rights holders. Stephen Shankland/CNET SoundCloud, a popular site for free listening of user-uploaded audio, has signed a licensing deal to work directly with — and pay — thousands of independent music labels and artists …
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4 June
ZTE Nubia Z9 follows trend, launches directly to buyers
Starting at $564, the Nubia sub-brand takes a stab at selling buyers its unlocked Android device. Nubia ZTE’s subsidiary brand, Nubia, is the latest phone-maker to sell its wares directly to US buyers. On Thursday, it announced that its Nubia Z9 — which we saw a bigger variant of a few months back called the Z9 Max — is going …
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4 June
Work anywhere with a wall, with a keyboard that’s also a projector
Now playing: Watch this: You don’t need a monitor with the Sho U KiBoJet pico… 0:38 TAIPEI — Taiwanese company Sho U wants to show you its latest invention, the KiBoJet, a keyboard that cleverly features a built-in pico projector. We’ve seen smart keyboards powered by software like Android, such as the OneBoard, but KiBoJet just runs a basic video …
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4 June
Free movies available at Crackle for June 2015
Now playing: Watch this: The newest movies to catch online for free 1:58 Sony’s free video service, Crackle.com, added an odd assortment of movies for the month of June. For you Ralph Macchio fans (and let’s face it, that’s every human being ever), the “Karate Kid” trilogy is available to stream but only for one month. It crane-kicks no more …
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