Now playing: Watch this: Trouble for VR? Facebook ending slew of Oculus demos… 1:33 Enlarge Image Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dons an Oculus Rift VR headset. Facebook Ask any expert: You’ve gotta try virtual reality before you can understand its true potential. So it wouldn’t be a particularly good sign if, say, Facebook was having …
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The Touch Bar in Apple’s updated MacBook Pro laptops is a useful and unique add-on, but for the first few months of the product’s life, it supported little more than a handful of Apple apps built into MacOS. Since then, some big players, from Photoshop to Spotify, have added support, and now one of the biggest cross-platform software packages — …
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Multitaskers who need to watch video while crunching numbers in a spreadsheet will be delighted to know Windows 10 soon will be able to accommodate miniature video players better. A test version of Windows 10 released Wednesday comes with a feature called “compact overlay window” that will always float atop your other windows. That could be handy for holding Skype …
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Facebook sees huge potential for it to grow in video. But YouTube, the reigning king of video, is keen to stay at the top of the heap. Against that backdrop, YouTube on Tuesday said it will soon let users start live-streaming from their phones, offering new competition to Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope. The new YouTube service was promised in …
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Microsoft‘s HoloLens headset isn’t a toy. There’s no release date for a consumer version, and the current oh-so-limited-but-awesome development kit costs US $3,000 a pop. And yet, I’ve never wanted to play with a HoloLens more. That’s because Toronto developer Kenny Wang figured out a way to use the HoloLens to bring Portal to the real world. Portal, in case …
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Looking for Super Bowl 2019? Check out Super Bowl 2019: How to watch Patriots vs. Rams online, start time and much more The matchup for Super Bowl LI (that’s 51 to you non-Romans) is set. Tom Brady and the New England Patriots will take on Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons at 6:30 p.m. ET, 3:30 p.m. PT on Sunday, February …
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Google just made it a no-brainer for school districts to kick Apple and Microsoft to the curb. At the education technology conference Bett, the search giant announced two new Chromebooks from Acer and Asus that basically offer low-cost, secure alternatives to iPads and Windows notebooks in one device. Google has been pushing hard into the education market for the past …
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Sometimes I can’t figure Microsoft out. There I am, working peacefully in Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon), when all of a sudden there’s a pop-up notification ripping my browser of choice (Google Chrome). See, apparently Chrome is worse for battery life than Microsoft’s Edge browser. And Firefox doesn’t block malware as well. Oh, and if I switch to Edge, I …
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Not everyone is wedded to styluses as input devices for tablets. In fact, I’d bet a lot of people would gladly trade the built-in cost of a stylus for a different accessory — in the case of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4, for example, a keyboard. Now Microsoft has sheared $100 US ($799), and AU$450 (AU$899) off the price of …
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Power management on your PC doesn’t have to be so hard. Tucked into the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15014 for PC and Mobile is a new slider user interface designed to make complicated power management a thing of the past. The power slider UI being tested as part of the build will be accessible via the Taskbar power …
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