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Microsoft Partners Heed Mixed-Reality Call

Microsoft Partners Heed Mixed-Reality Call

Microsoft on Wednesday showcased a new series of mixed reality headsets from partner firms Acer, HP, Asus, Dell and Lenovo at Computex 2017.

The preview marked the company’s commitment to establish Windows 10 as a leading driver of mixed reality capabilities, as well as to open up the market to a wider variety of price points and consumer demographics.

“These devices, coming to market this…

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Oculus Is Facing Yet Another Patent Infringement Lawsuit, This Time for Its 3D Imaging Tech

Oculus Is Facing Yet Another Patent Infringement Lawsuit, This Time for Its 3D Imaging Tech

Facebook’s VR division Oculus is finding it difficult to distance from court battles, of late. While the ZeniMax lawsuit is far from over, the company has now been slapped with yet another lawsuit over the 3D imaging technology incorporated in their Rift VR headsets. It has been filed by a lesser-known competitor called Techno View IP Inc. in the Delaware federal court on Thursday.

The…

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The Asus ZenFone AR is slated to enter the US market come July

The Asus ZenFone AR is slated to enter the US market come July

The Asus Zenfone AR is a pretty cool device. I mean sure, I can’t speak from first hand experience, but the kind of stuff we have been hearing about, make the Zenfone AR one of the most eagerly anticipated devices of the year. The device will support Daydream, and is also only the second deice to also support Google’s project Tango. Asus has revealed that the device will be coming to the US in…

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A Smartphone Surprise: U.S. Ownership Hits Record Levels, Says CTA Research

A Smartphone Surprise: U.S. Ownership Hits Record Levels, Says CTA Research

Smartphones are now in 80 percent of U.S. homes – a six percentage point increase year-over-year (YOY) – and U.S. consumers now own 27 million more smartphones than they did just last year, according to new research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

CTA’s 19th Annual Consumer Technology Ownership and Market Potential Studyalso shows televisions remain the most popular technology…

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The Max-Q: The Coolest Thing Out of Computex

The Max-Q: The Coolest Thing Out of Computex

I didn’t attend Computex this year, and that was sad for everything but my budget, because there was a ton of cool stuff announced at the show. Dell, HP and Lenovo showed off new designs that were both attractive and compelling. Mixed-reality headsets hit; based on Intel and Microsoft technology, they were far more affordable than the strong virtual reality stuff already in market (and some…

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Here’s everything you should know about Nintendo Switch’s paid online service 6

Here’s everything you should know about Nintendo Switch’s paid online service 6

The Nintendo Switch hybrid console has been expected to go online for quite some time and it surely will, but not just yet. The Japanese gaming behemoth has today doled out significant detailsabout its paid online subscription service. It offers the users insight into the U.S pricing, features, as well as the range of classic games that’ll be made available to them. The subscription is expected…

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EA Reveals New Action Driving Fantasy with Need for Speed Payback

EA Reveals New Action Driving Fantasy with Need for Speed Payback

Ghost Games™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) studio, has announced Need for Speed Payback, the new action driving blockbuster from one of the world’s bestselling video game franchises, hitting stores November 10th, worldwide. This explosive adventure is filled with intense heist missions, high stakes car battles, epic cop pursuits and jaw dropping set pieces. It’s blockbuster gameplay never…

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'Arms' Could Help Nintendo Fight Its Way Back Into the Ring

‘Arms’ Could Help Nintendo Fight Its Way Back Into the Ring

Arms, the highly anticipated fighting game for Nintendo’s Switch, will be available next Friday, and based on the early reviews, the company just may have found the magic bullet.

Nintendo’s Switch console, launched earlier this year, has been something of a surprise success. Prior to its launch, it seemed like a risky play for the company, which has been bobbing and weaving in its efforts to…

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Rumours indicate LG is expected to launch G6 Pro and G6 Plus by end of June

Rumours indicate LG is expected to launch G6 Pro and G6 Plus by end of June

LG is supposedly releasing the LG G6 Plus and G6 Pro by the end of June. Both these handsets are expected to first be launched in South Korea, home of the company. This news was first seen on South Korean news site ET News, although there is no official source for the information.

Ken Hong, LG’s senior global director of communications has stated regarding the release,

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Microsoft Expands Linux Container Support in Windows Server

Microsoft Expands Linux Container Support in Windows Server

Microsoft has decided to expand its support for Linux containers in the next release of Windows Server.

Linux containers and workloads will work natively on Windows Server, said Erin Chapple, general manager for the server operating system, in an online post last week.

The company also will extend Window Server’s Hyper-V isolation capability, which was introduced in the 2016 release of the…

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Trump Wants Tech Leaders to Help Save $1 Trillion

Trump Wants Tech Leaders to Help Save $1 Trillion

President Donald Trump aims to save taxpayers US$1 trillion over the next 10 years with a little help from America’s high-tech industry.

“Our goal is to lead a sweeping transformation of the federal government’s technology that will deliver dramatically better services for citizens,” the president said Monday at a roundtable session of the American Technology Council, composed of the leaders of…

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Art, History and 3D Printing

Art, History and 3D Printing

The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, last month debuted its Reboot Reality exhibit, which includes numerous installations with an interactive component. Visitors can don Occulus VR headsets to appreciate classical works of art in virtual reality — a completely new museum experience.

There long has been a debate on what constitutes “art” — and opinions have differed as to how…

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The Art of Manipulation and Misdirection

The Art of Manipulation and Misdirection

I was at Qualcomm last week, listening to an economist talk about Apple’s complaints that Qualcomm had charged Apple too much for access to patents. What I thought was fascinating was that Apple had folks focused on the 5 percent that Qualcomm had charged it instead of on the massive profit that Apple made on each phone.

The price of the iPhone 8 is rumored to be well over US$1,000 — but it…

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Apple Centers Health Data Strategy on iPhone

Apple Centers Health Data Strategy on iPhone

Apple quietly has been strategizing to expand its growing healthcare business to include the management of digital health records, with the iPhone operating as a central data hub, CNBC reported last week.

Apple has been in talks with numerous health industry groups that are involved in setting standards for the storage and sharing of electronic medical records, in a way that would help consumers…

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Robotics students and startups: pitch and demo at TechCrunch’s robotics event

Robotics students and startups: pitch and demo at TechCrunch’s robotics event

We’re pleased to announce the addition of pitches and demos at Session: Robotics, our upcoming event centered around the issues concerning the robotics community. Students and startups should apply now for slots for the event, taking place July 17 in Boston at MIT’s stunning Kresge Auditorium.

We’re looking for students to demo and early stage startups to pitch. If selected, both will get free…

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Google releases new TensorFlow Object Detection API

Google releases new TensorFlow Object Detection API

Google is releasing a new TensorFlow object detection API to make it easier for developers and researchers to identify objects within images. Google is trying to offer the best of simplicity and performance — the models being released today have performed well in benchmarking and have become regularly used in research.

The handful of models included in the detection API include heavy duty…

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Discover your rockstar stage persona in ‘The Artful Escape’

Discover your rockstar stage persona in ‘The Artful Escape’

“It’s not an artist’s job to give people something they want, but to give them something they never could have imagined.” These words are spoken to Francis Vendetti in The Artful Escape, an upcoming game that follows a young guitar prodigy on a psychedelic journey to discover who he really is. In the moment, the words are meant to help Vendetti find his own path as a musician, but it feels like…

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