There is a more elegant method for blocking your webcam than sticking a piece of tape over it. And it won’t leave a sticky residue behind should you later decide you’d like to use the cam. With the Device Manager in Windows, you can easily disable and enable your webcam. Now playing: Watch this: Top …
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Tom Neumann remembers the transformation. He was at a nursing home in Norwalk, Connecticut, last year, demoing a virtual reality platform he co-founded called Rendever. Mickey, an older woman who suffers from dementia and hadn’t talked much or smiled in weeks, gave it a try. She put on the Oculus headset and was virtually transported to a room full of …
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Google’s Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL have a lot to like. They’re fast, have incredible displays, and the camera is simply amazing. With Android Pie 9.0 on each device, there are some settings and features that you’ll surely want to tweak as you set up and begin using your phone. Here are ten such settings you should change right …
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I knew the Vive headset I was wearing was too tight. This was the HTC Vive Pro Eye, a new model introduced at CES this month in Las Vegas, that adds full-on eye-tracking. It’s otherwise very similar to the existing high-end Vive Pro headset that HTC introduced in 2018. I’ve gone through enough eye-tracking setups to know that it would work …
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This year’s CES wasn’t big on AR news, but Microsoft may be waiting until Mobile World Congress to spring information on the next expected update to its AR headset, the HoloLens. An invite to a press conference on Feb. 24 at MWC suggests the HoloLens 2 might be big reveal. Sure, the invite itself seems mysterious, with an image of a futuristic Barcelona, …
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If you still use Windows 7, it may be time to consider an upgrade. Here’s how to download and upgrade to Windows 10 for free. Starting Jan. 14, 2020, exactly one year from today, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7. That means no more updates or security fixes for the operating system. “Changes and upgrades in technology are inevitable,” …
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Mixed-reality headsets like the Magic Leap One and Microsoft HoloLens cost thousands of dollars. Even smart glasses like the Vuzix Blade cost around $1,000. At prices like that, it’s hard to imagine augmented reality (AR) headsets ever taking off. Rokid, a China-based AI company that launched a pair of somewhat glasses-like smart glasses at CES 2018 called the Rokid Glass, showed a prototype …
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Hardware security key maker Yubico has a new product in the works to give iPhones the same authentication technology available today to Android phones and to Windows and Mac personal computers. Previewed at the CES show this week, the YubiKey for Lightning supports Apple’s proprietary iPhone and iPad port on one end and the USB-C port common on Android phones …
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When I finally got my hands on the Royole Flexpai, the world’s first flexible smartphone, I couldn’t stop obsessing about the rubber spine as I opened and closed it. I worried that I was going to break it, but the two halves snapped into place via magnets just fine. Watching the Android operating system flex and bend on the display …
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If you can’t take the heat, get out of the clamshell. That was part of the motivation behind Asus dramatically reimagining the design for its luggable 17-inch gaming laptop it revealed at CES 2019. The ROG Mothership (GZ700), in order to pack in the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 GPU, an overclocked Intel Core i9-8950HK and more. The Mothership takes …
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