Google‘s Daydream VR platform always hinged on having multiple phones working on it. And now, Moto Z phones will be able to work with the headset and its apps, too. The Moto Z and Z Force both will receive Android 7.0 software this week, and along with that update will come compatibility with the Daydream …
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You can’t buy Snapchat’s Spectacles for $130. Even if that’s what it says on each and every receipt. The real price is anywhere between $750 and $2,000 — because that’s how much you’ll pay scalpers on eBay or Craigslist. Or the price is hours and hours of your time: time to wait, and watch, and drive, and hours to stand …
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New exclusives Tidal livestreamed an Emilie Sande concert in London, released another music video from Bon Jovi’s latest album, a single from Brazilian pop star Claudia Leitte and an excerpt from a book about influential Iggy Pop-fronted punk band The Stooges. Apple Music will exclusively host “808,” a documentary on the evolution and influence of the iconic 808 drum machine. …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Amazon Just the other day I wrote about free magazines for tablets, noting that the bigger the screen, the better the reading experience. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Scan old printed photos easily with Google’s PhotoScan… 2:04 Get ready to backfill your Google Photos library. Or just improve your next attempt at Throwback Thursday. Google has a new PhotoScan app for scanning old photos that creates vastly improved results over merely snapping a photo of a photo. Unlike the other scanner apps I’ve used …
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The Apple TV box has only gotten better since its debut in 2015, with thousands of new apps and plenty of usability improvements via software updates. Even more improvements — single sign-on for some cable and satellite providers and the new TV app — are due by the end of the year. But if the product has one frustration point, …
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Apple’s big 10-year anniversary iPhone could have augmented reality built right into the native iOS Camera app, according to a report by Business Insider. If true, Apple would be taking on Google in the AR department; that company released its first phone with a depth-sensing camera, the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, this past June. Apple could follow in Google’s Tango …
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What do you get for the person who has everything? How about an entirely different reality — like, say, the virtual kind? Don’t worry, I’m not about to suggest you spend $600 for an Oculus Rift ($290 at Amazon), $700 for a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR or $800 for an HTC Vive ($479 at Amazon) — excellent gifts though …
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Snapchat is coming to Wall Street. The social company reportedly filed for an initial public offering that values it at as much as $25 billion. The filing and that price illustrate just how significant Snapchat, and its parent company Snap Inc., have become since its founding just five years ago. Also on the show, San Francisco tightened its rules on …
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In the words of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, “Half of what you read on the internet is not true.” That’s the problem when you give billions of people access to a global forum where they can pretty much post whatever they want. You never know if what you’re reading is true, which is why we choose sites we think …
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