Now playing: Watch this: What to expect from Apple in 2018 (The 3:59, Ep. 330) 5:03 Today’s podcast focuses entirely on Apple and the year to come. We discuss a handful of expected changes from the tech titan in 2018, including several new iPhone designs, more augmented reality features and the new HomePod smart speaker. …
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With over 2 billion users today, Facebook is already the world’s biggest social network. But the company is looking ahead to tomorrow, and it’s decided that a big new market of opportunity is with younger users. To join Facebook or its free chat app Messenger, you need to be at least 13 years old. But Facebook on Monday announced Messenger …
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Telecom equipment maker Ericsson predicts there will be at least 1 billion 5G subscriptions in 2023. This is double the number of connections the company predicts for 2022, the company said in its semiannual Mobility Report. The technology is expected to be first deployed in dense urban areas. Ericsson said more than 20 percent of the world’s population will …
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Let’s start with a confession: I’m one of those idiots you heard about on the news last year. Cast your mind back to July 2016. It was the summer of Pokemon Go, the augmented reality game that had us scouring the streets for Hypnos, Jigglypuffs and Seels. It was also a summer plagued with Pokemon-related calamity. Distracted Pokemon hunters crashed …
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Neha Singh points her iPhone 8 Plus at an empty section of the dark-wood floor by the entrance to the Techstars startup accelerator in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The smartphone’s screen at first simply shows the space in front of us, but then a small digital 3D pop-up store appears. There are three golden mannequins dressed in tank tops and high-waisted …
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In 2016, NBC streamed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for the first time. This year the parade is once again available to watch online. Here’s what you need to know: When Now playing: Watch this: Black Friday 2017 survival guide 2:11 The parade starts at 9 a.m. ET, 6 a.m. PT, in New York. For those watching the parade outside …
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Shopping for your new kitchen in a physical store? Odds are, you’ll eventually be window-shopping in AR. The home furnishings giant Williams-Sonoma is purchasing Outward, a San Jose company specializing in 3D scanning and augmented reality, for $112 million, Recode reported Friday. Williams-Sonoma also owns Pottery Barn and West Elm. Outward made an AR app for Pottery Barn called 3D …
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Four of the five biggest companies in tech now are backing an effort to make video easier and cheaper online. On Monday, Facebook joined the Alliance for Open Media, a consortium building new video compression technology that doesn’t require any patent licensing payments. The effort unified next-gen video compression work already under way at Google, Mozilla and Cisco, and includes …
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“There’s a hidden world that lies just beneath the surface, filled with magical creatures that only some people can see.” Did I just describe the wizarding world of Harry Potter — or Pokemon Go, the incredibly popular augmented-reality game? Pokemon Go, in case you’re somehow unaware, is about catching tiny cute monsters that have mysteriously appeared in the real world. …
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Apple could be working on an augmented reality headset, though we shouldn’t expect to see it until 2019. The news comes from “people familiar with the situation,” cited in a Bloomberg report published Wednesday. If true, it’s not surprising: Every major company is betting on “reality” headsets — AR, VR or mixed — of some form as the future of human-computer interaction. …
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