It’s a given that the most important thing to Google — the company/verb/website that’s synonymous with finding things using the Internet — is its search business. Now, as the company lays out its master plan for the future, Google is making sure that business is injected with a healthy dose of artificial intelligence. At least …
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Streaming video, whether it’s from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Watch ESPN or PBS Kids, is more popular than ever. And the selection of devices to get those shows and movies from the Internet onto your TV continues to expand. In the last six months or so all of the major players in TV-based streaming — Roku, Amazon, Google and Apple …
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Streaming video, whether it’s from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Watch ESPN or PBS Kids, is more popular than ever. And the selection of devices to get those shows and movies from the Internet onto your TV continues to expand. In the last six months or so all of the major players in TV-based streaming — Roku, Amazon, Google and Apple …
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We’ve all lost our mobile phone at one point or another — sometimes in our homes, sometimes in the car and sometimes out in the wild unknown. Now instead of searching everywhere to track it down, you can rely on Google for help. This little-known Google feature lets you find your Android phone or tablet using Google’s search engine on …
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Browser maker Brave Software wants to rid the Web of the worst parts of online advertising, but the biggest newspapers in the US have launched an attack against the “illegal” plan. Lawyers from The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other members of the Newspaper Association of America published a letter Thursday that threatens legal action against …
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Google wants everyone to wear cardboard boxes on their faces. It wants that so much that it’s just announced a plan to make it easier for Apple iPhone developers to write VR apps. That’s a big deal because, first, the iPhone is the biggest rival to phones powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system, and second, until now there hasn’t …
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The future of tech is here, and it may not be as much fun as you think. To join in, you’ll need to strap a black, 1.5-pound mask to your face so you can have an out-of-body-like experience that might make you vomit. There’s also the chance you’ll trip on the 13-foot-long cord that connects the device to a PC. …
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Sony needs to do two things: Convince you to buy a virtual reality headset, and convince you that the $399 PlayStation VR is the one you need. That may be harder than you think. If you’re reading this story, you’ve probably heard of VR, a technology that uses goggles to strap a screen so close to your face that your …
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I don’t care how many cool points I lose by saying this: an animated short VR movie just blew my mind. I hadn’t seen anything like “On Ice” before, a “Blades-of-Glory“-meets-Pixar short created by Google, a veteran in VR animated movies by today’s standards. The movie follows ice skater Rudy Lazarus as he spectacularly performs in an all-white, chest-hair-revealing, deep-V …
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You’re probably not going to die any time soon (knock on wood), but it’s never a bad idea to prepare for the worst. Your will may take care of who gets your car when you pass away, but what about who gets your Facebook account? Or who’s allowed to access your Gmail data? Managing your digital afterlife can be tough, …
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