Chrome tweak stems battery drain
Google's Chromium browser team has come up with a simple fix to address heavy battery drain.
Jul 07, 2020 report
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Fuji envisions 400TB tape drive
Fujifilm announced a technological breakthrough that will allow it to construct a massive 400 terabyte tape cartridge by the end of the decade.
Jul 03, 2020 report
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Facebook designs ultra-thin VR eyeglasses
Facebook said this week it has developed the thinnest virtual reality headset in the world. Although it remains a prototype for now, the device does away with the bulky boxlike headgear commonly associated with virtual reality ...
Jul 02, 2020 report
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Smart necklace will know you binged on Chunky Monkey
There you are wrist deep into a quart of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey, digging ever deeper. You can't deny it. Your necklace is recording the ice-cream binge, which it will later dispatch to a coach or dietician.
Jul 08, 2020
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New open-source software aims to reduce cybersickness in VR use
Cybersickness, or motion sickness during the use of virtual reality, can be a major roadblock to the development and adoption of augmented and virtual reality technology. Now researchers at UTSA have built GingerVR, the first ...
Jun 29, 2020
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Shedding light (and sound) on hidden IoT devices in your next hotel room
More than 1 in 10 Airbnb guests have found hidden cameras in their rooms, according to a survey of 2,000 people conducted last year. This isn't unique to Airbnb; hidden cameras have been found in hotels and hostels all around ...
Jun 26, 2020
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New chips to bring Mac computers into iPhone ecosystem (Update)
Apple said Monday it would build its own chips to power its Mac computers to create a "common architecture" that allows the devices to run the same apps as those on the iPhone and iPad.
Jun 22, 2020
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Google quietly rolls out test version of Android upgrade
Google has released a test version of its annual upgrade to its Android software without the usual fanfare heralding the latest operating system powering most smartphones.
Jun 11, 2020
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Noise-cancellation comes to Google Meet
Google is making noise this week—or should we say it's making no noise—with its rollout of a new feature for its video-conferencing app Meet.
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When speech assistants listen even though they shouldn't
Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the Bochum Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Cyber Security and Privacy have investigated which words inadvertently activate voice assistants. They compiled a list of English, ...
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