Now playing: Watch this: New Google tools will power Star Wars VR high-end mobile… 3:00 The next Star Wars film might be just that much better thanks to a new technology from Google. The search giant unveiled a new tool called Seurat at its Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, on Thursday. It …
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If you’ve played all three Witcher games but still want more Geralt of Rivia in your life, you’re in luck: The Witcher Saga is coming to Netflix. The streaming giant is developing a series based on the Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of Witcher novels, the same books that were turned into a beloved gaming franchise by CD Projekt RED. Witchers are …
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2 years later…it’s happening. #Tidelands will be Netflix’s very first Australian original series. https://t.co/iPamxzo768 — Netflix ANZ (@NetflixANZ) “> Netflix has announced its first Australian original series, “Tidelands,” which will be made available on the streamer globally. The show follows a former criminal who returns home to her small fishing village, where a local fisherman’s body washes ashore. A mystery …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Sphero I think we can all agree that the best thing about “The Force Awakens” was BB-8. Actually, I thought he …
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The digital wallet crowd is getting a little more packed in the US, with Apple and Android Pay being joined by two new competitors from the East. Alipay, the payment platform offered by e-commerce giant Alibaba, has joined forces with US credit card processing service First Data Corporation, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The partnership enables Chinese tourists who visit the …
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The gap between midrange and premium phones is about to get smaller. That is, if those midrange phones come packing Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 630 and 660 chips. Announced Tuesday local time at a company event in Singapore, the two new system-on-chip (SoC) are the successors to the Snapdragon 625 and 652 processors, which are used in devices such as the …
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The follow-up phone to the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T is coming out, and it won’t be called the OnePlus 4. In fact, it will be called the the OnePlus 5, and it will come out some time this summer. The company confirmed the news, originally reported in The Verge, to CNET. OnePlus, a relatively unknown phone maker a few …
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Earlier this year CNET editor David Katzmaier wrote how “the shambling corpse of 3D TV,” had finally fallen down dead in describing Sony and LG’s decision to stop supporting 3D in their TVs in 2017. They were the last two major TV manufacturers to support 3D, years after Vizio had dropped the feature in 2013. Smaller brands like Sharp, TCL …
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I have a drawer full of DVDs. Some Blu-rays, too. But I don’t even have a player plugged in right now; that’s how long it’s been since a watched a movie on physical media. (What is this, 2012?) On the other hand, I bought and paid for all those movies, so it seems like I should be able to enjoy …
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If Friday’s Google doodle looks familiar, you likely saw it in a movie. The doodle, which celebrates St. Patrick’s Day, features two shamrocks high-fiving each other as they pass each other on a small island. While the drawing is, well, a bit sketchy, it is meant to represent Skellig Michael, a remote island off the southwest coast of Ireland. Declared …
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