Is it better to have a self-contained pair of smart glasses, or something that simply uses your phone to do the heavy lifting and battery power? Kopin, a manufacturer of microdisplays and smart glasses components, is betting on the latter. The Kopin Golden-i Infinity isn’t really an AR device, so much as it is a …
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Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are making it so you can plug in a braille display much like a mouse or keyboard. The companies have teamed up with the USB Implementers Forum, a nonprofit that promotes adoption of USB tech, to integrate braille into a new USB Human Interface Device (HID) standard (PDF), according to Engadget. Now playing: Watch this: …
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By lunchtime each day, open window upon open window litters my desktop workspace. I’m sure you feel my pain. Thankfully, there is a way to get rid of the clutter and focus on the task (and window) at hand that doesn’t involve going around and clicking the tiny minimize button on each and every window you want to clear from …
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If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad, we’ve got some bad news. PC gaming giant Valve says Apple has rejected its Steam Link app, meaning it may not appear on the App Store after all. (It’s available in beta on Android right now.) Valve says that Apple actually approved the iOS version for …
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With Mozilla’s flip of a virtual switch, life got easier for the people who make websites and the people who use them, which is to say, everybody. On Monday, Mozilla accepted an update for its Firefox browser that enables technology called web components. You probably won’t directly care about them unless you’re a programmer. But you’ll almost assuredly care about …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Apple Watch needing a watch face store, stat. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg facing the EU for the Cambridge Analytica scandal Intel and Microsoft disclosing a new flaw in computers and mobile devices. Now playing: Watch this: Are you getting bored with your Apple Watch face? (The… 4:26 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis …
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Acer’s quick to grab the credit for shipping out Alexa-enabled laptops, but the reality is more complicated. The manufacturer sent out a press release Monday morning declaring “First!” on shipping laptops with Amazon’s voice assistant preinstalled. That’s fine, but the first notebook to ship with it installed will be the Acer Nitro 5 Spin, which won’t be shipping until next month. …
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The pressure is easing off on Huawei, and the company is taking full advantage. The Chinese mobile hardware manufacturer first announced its MateBook Pro X laptop at MWC in February. But thanks to bad karma such as government agencies banning its phones and Best Buy dropping its products, the laptops been scarce in the US. Now that things are cooling off a …
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Considering its work with Cortana, Microsoft’s acquisition of Semantic Machines makes perfect sense. Announced Sunday, the purchase is designed to bolster not just Microsoft digital voice assistant Cortana but also social chatbots like XiaoIce, which has had up to 30 billion conversations across China, Japan, the United States, India and Indonesia. Berkeley, California-based Semantic Machines describes itself as developing the …
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A project codenamed Google A65 is thought to be a standalone AR headset, and now we may have more details about it. German news site Winfuture.de says it has documents that indicate Google’s working with Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta on the augmented reality headset. Google’s previously worked with Quanta on the Pixel C tablet. The headset is expected to include camera sensors and …
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