Battleship Island. It’s a fantastic name for an unbelievable place. A place unlike any in the world. A tiny island, once home to 5,259 people with the highest population density in history, abruptly abandoned and left to the elements for decades. The result is haunting and fascinating. If you’ve played any of the recent installments …
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Now playing: Watch this: GoPro, Pixpro, or Ricoh? Finding the best 360 camera 4:03 Forget your standard video rules, when shooting in 360 degrees convenience may trump quality. 360 video — that VR-like format that lets you look up, down, left, right, and behind — is all the rage right now. But to get those wraparound views, you’ll need a …
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What is your head doing right now? If you’re reading this using your phone, laptop or tablet, chances are you’re hunched over with your head tilted down. Research has found that this posture, called “text neck” can lead to bad posture and cause pain in your neck, shoulders and spine. What’s text neck and why is it so bad? The …
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Just as electricity transformed everything we do, artificial intelligence — think really, really smart machines — will upend industries from retail to finance to transportation. And that will reshape our world and change our lives, said a panel of experts Monday discussing “The State of AI” at the EmTech Digital Conference in San Francisco. The transformation, though, will rest on …
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Whenever we talk about artificial intelligence, someone inevitably mentions Skynet, the destructive machine system in the Terminator movies. But we shouldn’t be worried about a dystopian rise of the robots. At least that’s the opinion of John Giannandrea, Google’s chief of search and the company’s former AI boss. Why? Because we’re so far away from anything that would even resemble …
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Edward Snowden has joined a growing group of privacy experts criticizing Google for not integrating end-to-end encryption as a default feature in its new Allo messaging app. In a tweet the NSA whistleblower called Allo “dangerous” and warned his followers against using it. Allo has an incognito mode that promises end-to-end encryption through the popular Signal messaging protocol, but it …
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True virtual reality — not just Cardboard — might be a part of your next Android phone. Android VR — officially called Daydream — is now a thing, and it’s coming later this year alongside the release of Android N. Google’s VR aspirations are very similar to what Samsung is already doing with its Gear VR headset. You’ll use a …
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Google hopes to make group messaging simpler and more focused with a new app called Spaces, the company announced Monday. Articles, images and videos will be the center of group conversations, called “spaces,” because of the app’s built-in integration to other Google products such as Google Search, YouTube and Chrome. For example, you can invite friends to a space in …
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IFTTT, the online connection service, now works with hundreds of different services and devices, connecting them to break the language barrier and help them work together. While both major mobile platforms — Android and iOS — have their own collection of dedicated channels, you can go a bit further and accomplish a little more with IFTTT on Android. Here are …
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Google might be ready to launch a whole new vision of VR. And honestly, in a year filled with big VR hardware all over the place, I’m more interested to hear about what Google’s got in the works than anyone else. Google’s I/O developer conference is just around the corner. There are a lot of VR-targeted developer sessions this year, …
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