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Samsung has a clever new message, but will it fly?

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image No, not a headless chicken. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET On Wednesday, Samsung managed to release a new phone with no gremlins attached. So let’s talk ostriches. Slipped into the Galaxy S8 launch entertainment was an extremely arresting …

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Android Wear 2.0 rollout delayed (again) due to bug

If you’re waiting to finally use the next generation of Google’s smartwatch software, you’ll have to keep waiting. Android Wear 2.0, the most significant update to the search giant’s operating system for wearables, is being delayed in its wider rollout. The culprit is a bug that Google found in its final testing of the software. 9to5Google earlier reported the news. …

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Donald Trump has a new iPhone, says social media director

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image “Yes, an iPhone. From Apple. Made in China.” Drew Angerer, Getty Images We’re used to flipping and flopping from politicians. President Donald Trump, however, was once steadfast in his opposition to Apple. He called for the company to be boycotted after Cupertino refused …

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Samsung will take on Oculus, Vive with high

Gear VR is only the beginning of Samsung’s virtual reality ambitions. The South Korean company has made a big bet on mobile virtual reality, bundling its Gear VR headset with its flagship phones to get people familiar with the technology. Once again, consumers who preorder its newest phone — in this case, the Galaxy S8, unveiled Wednesday — will get …

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Apple Beats 1 chief wants to rekindle the record

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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Apple’s quiet release of its cheaper, faster iPad proves no one cares about tablets anymore

Psst! Did you hear that Apple released a new iPad? You’d be forgiven if you didn’t. After all, Apple didn’t bother to hold an event to introduce its newest 9.7-inch tablet, which drops the Air name and gets a $70 price cut along with a faster processor and brighter display. Instead, Apple made the announcement in a press release issued …

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Apple beefs up AR team with top engineers

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s AR world could be getting closer 1:30 Apple is assembling a top-notch team of engineers to bring augmented reality, or AR, to the masses. More details about the people the company’s been hiring emerged Monday in a Bloomberg report. The team, which includes some notable Apple insiders, is also being bolstered by expertise from a …

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Say hi to Snapchat and Specs, your secret AR ‘gateway drug’

Who would have thought that augmented reality‘s best pitch would be puking rainbows and candy-colored camera glasses? Augmented reality — and its more advanced cousin mixed reality — overlay digital information onto the visible world. Typically, this is where I’m supposed to reference Pokemon Go, last year’s mobile gaming phenomenon that popularized AR through the digital monsters that popped up …

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AR could find its way into the iPhone 8, suggests report

Apple may have over 1,000 engineers working on a project related to AR, UBS reports, and it could hit the iPhone 8 as early as this year. We’ve heard Tim Cook rave about augmented reality before, so this doesn’t come as a huge surprise. If Apple brings AR to the iPhone it will be competing with Google Tango enabled phones, …

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Apple’s Tim Cook: We really care about pro users

Apple CEO Tim Cook really cares about the company’s professional users — even though Apple’s Mac desktop computers are overdue for updates. “You will see us do more in the pro area,” Cook said Tuesday during Apple’s shareholder meeting in Cupertino, California. “The pro area is very important to us. The creative area is very important to us in particular. …

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