Floating holograms. Space-age goggles. The Magic Leap One, the mysterious augmented reality headset, has been promised for so many years, it started to seem as unreal as the worlds it supposedly creates. We’re here to tell you: Magic Leap is a real thing. Its debut headset is now available to buy, but at $2,295 with …
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Magic Leap’s augmented-reality vision started as a comic book. And I’ve read it. The same art in the lobby at the check-in desk at Magic Leap’s Fort Lauderdale headquarters is from a comic that Andy Lanning, co-creator of Marvel’s 2008 revamp of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic and now Magic Leap’s executive creative director, wrote along with Rony Abovitz …
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Siri may soon get better at recognizing the name of your favorite local watering hole or burger joint. Apple’s Siri Speech Recognition Team said Thursday that it’s improved the voice assistant’s ability to identify names of local destinations and points of interest. Virtual assistants have been great with big brand names like Starbucks, but they’ve had a harder time recognizing …
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At a New York press event on Thursday, Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy Note 9, a 6.4-inch phone that features dual 12-megapixel cameras, a whopping 512GB of (optional) internal storage and an embedded S-Pen stylus with Bluetooth connectivity. The phone will go on sale on Aug. 24 with a starting price of $1,000 for the 128GB version. But …
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Samsung is making its digital helper more helpful. The tech giant’s Bixby voice assistant is becoming more conversational and personal, part of an effort to make the service more useful, the company said at its Unpacked press event in New York on Thursday. Samsung used the event to introduce its latest phone, the Galaxy Note 9. For example, if you ask …
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The Samsung Galaxy 7 is reportedly at risk from hackers due to a microchip security flaw. The Meltdown vulnerability can be exploited to attack the Galaxy S7, researchers from Graz Technical University in Austria told Reuters on Wednesday. Samsung phones were previously thought to be immune to Meltdown, which is said to endanger most computing devices. The team will release …
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Though we don’t expect to see the rumored Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL introduced officially until this fall, we may have gotten a sneak preview from a Ukrainian Telegram user. As reported by Android Police, Telegram user @LuchkovCH has posted an extensive series of photos (and a brief unboxing video) of what they say is a Pixel 3 …
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In a move presaged by weeks of mounting pressure, Apple, Facebook, Google’s YouTube and Spotify cracked down on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire, removing wide swathes of content or terminating his accounts entirely. All the actions seemed to happen within 24 hours. Was it a long-overdue crackdown or a conspiracy of censorship? That depends on who you …
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Huawei’s Honor Play, a gaming focused phone, will go on sale Tuesday in four new countries in Asia. This marks the Play’s first appearance outside China since it was first announced back in June. The gaming focused phone will likely also be announced at IFA Berlin at the end of the month. Loaded with a feature called GPU Turbo, the …
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Shortly after Google released Android Pie in a public beta, we had it installed and began tapping around in an attempt to discover as much as we possibly could. Now, with Android Pie finalized and officially available, here are three features we think are worth pointing out. Now playing: Watch this: New features in Android P 2:17 Split screen Screenshots …
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