The MacBook Pro‘s TouchBar can be useful within apps, providing shortcuts to extra functionality and features. However, there’s more to the tiny strip of touchscreen on Apple‘s MacBook Pro. Games! That’s right, the TouchBar is a gaming workhorse. Well, maybe that’s taking it a bit far, but you can play games on it. Some of …
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Dwarf star Trappist-1 is tiny, just a little bigger than Jupiter, but it’s making huge news. As you’ve probably heard, it’s home to not just three Earth-like exoplanets, but a staggering seven, three of which could have oceans of water, just like Earth. And it’s only 39 light-years away, which means the planets are close enough that we could find …
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When you unpacked your new TV or streamer for the first time, you probably couldn’t wait to start watching it. In the excitement to put it through its paces, chances are you just clicked “I agree” to all those screens of legal mumbo jumbo that came up during the setup process. Did you know one of the things you likely …
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Good news for Galaxy phone owners who use Windows 10: Samsung plans to make its Flow app compatible with any device that runs Windows 10. This means that in addition to being able to unlock your Windows 10 computer with your Galaxy phone’s fingerprint sensor, you’ll also be able to seamlessly hand off tasks, notifications and content to your Windows …
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Ten years ago on Tuesday, a gutsy Kenyan company launched a mobile money initiative that would change the lives of millions. Its name is M-Pesa, with “pesa” meaning money in Swahili. Think mobile money and your mind will probably jump to NFC-powered payment services from Apple, Samsung and Google. M-Pesa predates all of those and launched before the smartphones they …
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“Hi everyone — the photo you are all excited about is NOT what you think it is.” So said Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz on Twitter earlier this month, responding to the latest PR crisis embroiling his Florida-based augmented reality (AR) startup. Days before, Business Insider published what it said was the first photo of Magic Leap’s secretive, never-before-seen hardware. …
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What is VR good for, other than games? If you’re asking that question, you’ve probably never tried Tilt Brush. We called it one of the most amazing things you could do with an HTC Vive headset, and today it’s finally coming to the Oculus Rift as well. Tilt Brush defies description even more than most VR experiences, but basically you …
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Sick of having to sit through 30 seconds of boring ads before your YouTube video plays? We have good news for you. Google will scrap the unskippable 30-second advertisements that sometimes play before YouTube videos, BBC reports. The bad news? It’ll only happen next year. Shorter ad formats, such as ones that can be skipped after five seconds, will remain. …
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Google’s Android Wear 2.0 watch platform is the company’s biggest shot yet at jumping into the fitness tracking world dominated by companies like Fitbit. Is it there yet? Not quite. The company’s revamped smartwatch operating system improves upon many of the problems that plagued Android Wear watches for the past two and a half years. I’ve had a chance to …
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Now playing: Watch this: Google’s Android Wear 2.0 is here, starting with LG Watch… 2:37 There are a lot of new features tucked away in Android Wear 2.0, the OS running on the LG Watch Sport ($245 at Best Buy). From Android Pay, to Google Assistant, to stand-alone apps on your wrist, Android Wear can do a lot. We’ve already …
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