Microsoft is bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to iOS and Windows PCs next year. In a blog post Wednesday, Microsoft said its cloud-gaming platform will be available in spring 2021 as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for Windows PCs through the Xbox app and web browsers and for Apple’s iOS through mobile web browsers. “Whatever …
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You can certainly spend $1,000 or $1,500 or more on a laptop, but the question is: Should you? After all, it doesn’t take a lot of horsepower to delivery a satisfying experience web browsing or doing ordinary productivity work like creating documents and spreadsheets. To figure out how much laptop you really need, we enlisted CNET laptop guru Dan Ackerman …
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With the next version of Chrome, Google is moving ahead with a plan to improve privacy and security by reining in some abilities of extensions used to customize the browser. The move had angered some developers who expected earlier it would cripple ad blockers. Manifest v3, the programming interface behind Google’s security plans, will arrive with Chrome 88 in mid-January, …
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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 processor won’t support a much ballyhooed video compression technology developed by Google, Netflix and other technology giants, dealing a blow to data efficiency and streaming quality improvements for the next-generation of Android phones. Judd Heape, a Qualcomm vice president for product management, says the mobile chip leader couldn’t include AV1 technology in the new chip because …
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Sometime in the not-too-distant future, Apple will reportedly unveil an augmented- or mixed-reality headset. Apple hasn’t discussed any headgear yet. But augmented reality is alive and well on the iPhone — and it’s only getting better. Apple’s depth-sensing lidar sensor (available on the iPhone 12 Pro and latest iPads), with its advanced 3D-scanning possibilities, feels like the backbone of the Apple headsets of …
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MacOS 11 Big Sur arrived last month, and it’s got a few geeky features for long-time Mac users. But it also teams up with Apple’s new M1 chip (the first in a line known as Apple silicon) to turn the page on a new chapter for the Mac. So let’s break it down. If you’re a traditional Mac user, you’re …
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The latest iPhones can take remarkably impressive 3D photos and scans, especially with the rear lidar sensor. But, of course, iPhones don’t have 3D screens. The $349 Looking Glass Portrait is a 7.9-inch desktop photo frame-sized display with a built-in Raspberry Pi 4 computer that aims to be a 3D viewer for those photos, and a holographic mini monitor for interactive …
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At some point, the line between what we see in a VR headset and what we see in the real world may melt away. Finnish AR/VR headset maker Varjo could be approaching that moment with its latest lidar-enabled XR-3 headset, available to order today. At $5,495, plus a required $1,495 yearly software license, this is hardly cheap (a version without …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. The holiday season can be a great time to pick up some sweet, sweet discounts on some great gaming gear. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed, but there are still some fantastic deals available on controllers, mice, headsets, monitors and more. You won’t find reduced prices …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Cyber Monday and Black Friday are done, and many of the best video game deals of the year are gone with them. But there are a few games on sale that you can still buy. Here we look at games for the Xbox One, which still has plenty …
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