Walking around with future AR glasses on still remains an unsolved lifestyle and safety challenge. Microsoft, creator of the HoloLens 2 business-focused AR headset, are also setting their sights on AR in cars. A new partnership with Volkswagen, announced Thursday, aims to solve current problems with AR headsets when tracking movement on faster-moving vehicles. Standing …
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This story is part of Road Trip 2021, CNET’s coverage of the push and pull to manufacture more products in the USA. When you walk among the hulking machines inside an Intel chip factory, you feel simultaneously dwarfed and gigantic. Dwarfed because such factories, called fabs, are enormous facilities covering dozens of acres. And gigantic because the processors they build …
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Some Mercedes cars have the What3words technology built in, letting you speak or type three words to pinpoint a 10×10 foot location in its navigation system, but a lot more cars soon could get similar technology. The London company announced a deal that will let navigation system maker Here incorporate the technology. Here navigation technology is used in car brands …
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The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday endorsed new networking technology called C-V2X, which links cars to each other and to traffic signals. In a unanimous decision, the commission voted on a proposal that would carve off some radio airwaves in the 5.9GHz frequency range for use by C-V2X . The FCC’s proposal also would free up some spectrum for unlicensed …
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Amid the hoopla of CES 2019, next-generation 5G tech is once again the talk of Las Vegas. But as with previous editions of the big electronics show, it’s largely just that — talk. That’s because, to date, only a few consumers have actually experienced a real 5G network — AT&T launched the next-generation network in select cities last month, while Korean …
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Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, a jury decided Thursday in a legal fight that dates back seven years. The unanimous decision, in the US District Court in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, is just about halfway between what the two largest mobile phone …
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In a full-page ad taken out in major US newspapers on Monday, tech manufacturer Samsung has offered an apology for the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which was fitted with a faulty battery, leading to an unprecedented number of the devices exploding. In September of this year, Samsung issued a full recall; now it’s promising to fully investigate the phone, Korea …
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Now playing: Watch this: Death of Samsung’s Note 7 leaves unanswered questions 2:15 Samsung‘s Galaxy Note 7 debacle is nothing short of devastating. The company confirmed on Tuesday that it had permanently shut down production of the Galaxy Note 7, bringing to an end the saga of the troubled, fire-prone handset. On Monday night, it had issued a warning to …
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Even the US Supreme Court justices were a little befuddled over what to do with the legal saga between Apple and Samsung. The two largest phone makers in the world squared off in the highest court in the land Tuesday over the value of design patents, marking the likely conclusion to a long-running battle that goes back to a 2012 …
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