No need to hunt for the geeky pockets at Sundance — they’re front and center this year. The Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday night in Park City, Utah, with a science-based call to arms as its opening-night movie. “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” revisits the crusade against climate change a decade after “An …
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You might not have heard of phone maker Vivo, but if you’re seriously into your selfies, then its latest phone, the V5 Plus, could be just the thing for you. It packs a 20-megapixel image sensor on the front, and right alongside is an additional 8-megapixel sensor. The smaller sensor captures depth information about the scene, allowing it to create …
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The wait is almost over. Threaded messaging is finally coming to Slack, the popular messaging and collaboration service. It will roll out in “the next few days” and will be available on both desktop and mobile versions, according to an announcement posted by the company. Threaded messaging — or the ability to group related message replies together in an easy-to-read …
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A study released Wednesday by market research firm Parks Associates shows a steady increase in stateside TV customers who are forgoing traditional cable. Some 15 percent of US broadband households now get all of their TV from an antenna. That number has increased steadily over the course of five years as pay TV subscriptions have seen a corresponding drop. Parks …
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Now playing: Watch this: 3D TV might finally be dead 1:30 It’s been a walking corpse for the last couple of years, and now 3D TV finally looks dead. LG and Sony, the last two major TV makers to support the 3D feature in their TVs, will stop doing so in 2017. None of their sets, not even high-end models …
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The always-on, always-listening “smart speakers” made by Amazon and Google, the Echo and Google Home, sound great when asked to read news headlines or the weather. But if you care about audio quality when playing back music, both kind of suck. Solutions exist today for music-centric Alexa and Google Home users who want better sound. You can hook an Echo …
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Now playing: Watch this: The coolest TV tech of CES 2017 17:51 CES 2017 is over, but the prizes are not. On top of seeing a three-screen gaming laptop and a TV that’s only 2.57 mm thick, the CNET team walked around the Las Vegas Convention Center to find great swag for one lucky reader. Our locked-and-loaded swag bag includes: …
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Most of the new TVs I saw last week at CES are actually coming to market in 2017, but some of the coolest won’t be available for sale. Unless you’re an airport, a fast-food restaurant or a jewelry store with a penchant for flashy signage. The epicenter of display coolness was the white-walled, private booth of LG Display. There I …
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CES can be stressful. The overcrowded conference halls, tight deadlines and little sleep can lead to feeling overwhelmed and anxious, but this year I discovered the healing powers of full-body massage chairs, and it made all the difference. I was dispatched to the show floor with the job of finding interesting and out-of-the-ordinary products. South Korean company BodyFriend fit the …
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A Vive ($479 at Amazon) headset was lowered over my face, and a rifle placed in my hands. The cleared-out room space around me was ready for me to take on a few waves of attackers. All around me, I saw enemies coming. I ducked, I aimed, I ran towards a wall and tried to hide. And it was pretty …
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