It doesn’t take much to become the toast of Twitter. Sometimes, you just have to decide that it’s not worth flying without a can of your favorite beer. That’s one can. One single can, and no other luggage. Who needs underwear and a toothbrush when you’ve got a tasty beverage? When customs asks you what …
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Director James Gunn has confirmed that his Marvel movie “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” will be the first 4K Blu-ray released by Disney. The director indicated in April that he was lobbying Disney to release the film with the extended color and contrast that the format allows. “LIGHT and COLOR are such important elements of ‘Vol. 2’s’ story, and …
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When I first saw that pro camera maker Red was making a holographic phone, I imagined it might beam the holograms of my Star Wars dreams, like the iconic moment when a holographic Princess Leia asks Obi-Wan Kenobi for help. No such luck. The Hydrogen One doesn’t create that type of sci-fi hologram; it has what Red is calling a …
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Having shrunk the gap between premium and midrange phones, Qualcomm now wants to work on making budget phones snappier. It plans on doing that with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 octa-core chips. Built on a 14nm process, these new chips offer a load of performance improvements over its previous 435 processor, including longer battery life and quicker browsing and gaming …
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Apple wants to hire a human assistant for its Siri digital assistant. We swear, we’re not making this up. According to an open Apple req flagged by 9to5Mac, the iPhone maker wants to make Siri more culturally with it. Or in Apple’s words, “to provide strategic awareness of cultural happenings in the collective zeitgeist.” In our words, Apple wants to …
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Now playing: Watch this: The world of pro wrestling: explained 3:45 So you binged watched the first season of “GLOW” in one day and now have an itch for women’s pro wrestling? You’re in luck! The WWE on Tuesday officially announced the Mae Young Classic, a women’s wrestling tournament that’ll be available exclusively on its streaming service, the WWE Network, …
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And somehow, we’re at the seventh month of the year. You could consider how quickly time passes OR you could just find new stuff to watch. Netflix is bringing a little-known movie online. It’s called “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” You might have missed it when it arrived in theaters because it was a tiny movie. However, you can …
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Most of the other big studios have jumped on the 4K Blu-ray bandwagon, but the House of Mouse is taking its time. Disney has yet to make any official announcement, but rumors are starting to accumulate that it’s ready to release its first 4K Blu-ray title. Signs point to one of its latest sci-fi blockbusters: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Virtual Reality. Steam. Unity. Unreal. External graphics. They’re not words you’d usually expect Apple to utter during the Mac portion of a press conference — the company has all but ignored desktop gaming for years. But it just announced it will natively support …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Augmented reality: what the heck do you do with it? No one really knows for sure, but everyone’s trying. Apple is making a concerted push towards AR with iOS 11, adding a developer toolset called ARKit that helps create augmented experiences on iPhones …
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