Facebook is testing a new format of its Watch Party social-video chat that’s meant for live TV unavailable to stream Facebook itself. The company made the announcement Wednesday at a South by Southwest event in Austin, Texas. It also announced that its original series Red Table Talk, a talk program with Jada Pinkett Smith, would return with 20 …
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When it announced its new augmented reality platform with a set of prototype AR glasses back in March, Bose said that a commercial version of the product was coming. Now it’s here: Bose Frames, a set of sunglasses with built-in microspeakers and microphones, will be available in the US in January for $199. Preorders start today at bose.com, and Bose …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man tweets his love for his car. You might be tempted to offer such elevated words, on learning that fashion designer and rapper Kanye West has extremely deep feelings for his Tesla. In a series of …
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YouTube videos focusing on conspiracy theories will now link to a snippet of information on the topic from Wikipedia. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki described the new feature during a session Tuesday at South by Southwest with Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief of Wired. “This has been a year of fake news and misinformation,” she said. YouTube will determine what exactly qualifies as …
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I’ve never been on this street before, and I’m not really sure where I’m going. I reflexively reach for my phone to see where I am. But then I remember I don’t need it. That’s because I’m wearing Bose’s new augmented reality (AR) sunglasses. The prototype device, made from a 3D printer and packed with smarts and high-quality audio, made …
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OK, so this is weird, and not what we were expecting when Bose told us it was making a new product announcement at this year’s SXSW: It’s creating an augmented-reality platform. Now playing: Watch this: Bose AR aims for augmented audio instead of visuals 1:14 That’s right, Bose is getting into the AR glasses game, but it’s not what you …
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iHeartRadio has gone to bot. The streaming music service unleashed a slew of product integrations announcements at CES Monday. Listeners will be able to access iHeartRadio through its first bot, a helper on Facebook Messenger; and Garmin’s GPS running watch Forerunner 645 Music. iHeartRadio, the digital arm of traditional radio giant iHeartMedia, has been extending itself deeper into technologies after …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Oh, what a duet. Amy E. Price They call it brand synergy. It’s when two big brands get together and the result is even more powerful than each of them separately. Please welcome, then, “Game of Thrones” coming together with Apple to produce a possibly …
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Record stores mean a lot to Zane Lowe. Best known for his 12 years as one of the BBC’s top Radio 1 DJs, Lowe uncovered the earliest recordings of hip-hop by devotedly riffling through record store bins, and he found the way to Nirvana by awkwardly humming the guitar riff to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to his local record store …
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Google provided some details on its latest mobile operating software, currently dubbed Android O. The software, coming out later this year, will include picture-in-picture, so a user can watch a video on one app while bouncing around to other apps, as well as improved battery life. For now, we still have to guess what the O will stand for. That …
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