Night-vision cameras have come to smartphones. The Lumigon T3 uses an IR camera with an IR flash to record photos in complete darkness -- and yes, there's a regular camera, too.
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At E3 next week, Turtle Beach will be showing off the HyperSound Glass, a directional speaker that also happens to be the world's first speaker made using a transparent pane of glass.
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With Game of Thrones season 6, episode 8 almost here, HBO has released five new images. Sunday's episode, No One, is sure to answer burning questions from last week, as well as bring new ones.
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The latest generation of mobile hardware provides excellent battery life, brilliant display quality and outstanding performance, often at the same time. But you only need one laptop — and we know which you should buy.
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Reports are surfacing that preview builds of Windows 10 and Xbox One now support UWP apps across both devices, bringing the two platforms closer together. This means developers can create a single app that works on all Windows 10 devices.
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It may be a ubiquitous sight in major cities across the U.S., but despite its domestic domination, Uber still has a ways to go when it comes to making inroads overseas. But now, the transportation may have finally found a foothold in Japan.
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Windows 10 may be a free upgrade, but it's not a charity. Here are a few money making schemes that help explain why Microsoft is pushing this OS so hard.
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As busy as Dwayne Johnson always seems to be, the actor recently found time to reveal the first poster for Moana on Twitter, along with another bit of news that will have Disney/Pixar fans salivating.
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On Wednesday, Apple detailed major shake-ups coming to its powerful app store. Those include a new revenue sharing model that would give developers more money when users subscribe to a service via their apps — instead of keeping 70 percent of all revenue generated from subscriptions, publishers will be able to keep 85 percent of revenue, once a subscriber has been paying for a year.
Now Google plans to up the ante at its app store: It will also move from a 70/30 split to 85/15 for subscriptions — but instead of requiring developers to hook a subscriber for 12 months before offering the better split, it will make it available right away.
In what it claims is the first of its kinds, British car insurance company Adrian Flux is selling driverless car policies. Even cars with ABS can benefit. Loss coverages in the policy include navigation, satellite failure, and car hacking.
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The United Kingdom just passed a huge milestone in its renewable energy program – in May, for the first-ever calendar month, the UK generated more solar power than coal power.
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Pebble made health tracking a priority with the launch of its Kickstarter for the Pebble Core, Pebble 2, and Time 2. Yesterday, it updated its Health app to make it more accurate, and today, the company is releasing two of its fitness algorithms to the public along with a mood-tracking app. One algorithm helps detect motion and the second counts steps. You can read all the technical details in this Medium post. Nathaniel Stockham, a Stanford PhD student and Pebble collaborator, says he made the algorithms available to "encourage the use of a standard set of measures." Other fitness wearable companies, like Fitbit, haven't released their algorithms.
Pebble's work with Stanford goes deeper than its algorithms. The company's also...
Up for sale on eBay is one of only 460 Leica KE-7A cameras purchased specifically for the U.S. Army back in the early 1970s. This particular model is said to be still in the box and in pristine condition, making for a very interesting sale.
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Built to give owners complete control over the brewing of their coffee, the Invergo system is an efficient, customizable alternative to other automated coffee machines currently on the market like Keurig or Nespresso's machines.
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A faulty over-the-air software update is causing a number of Lexus vehicles to malfunction. In some cases, the issue can cause the head unit to restart repeatedly, preventing drivers from using navigation, audio, and climate control features.
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It was a great idea while it lasted, but it really didn't last that long. Just a few months after launching its connected home hub Sense on Kickstarter, Silk Labs has abandoned the project altogether, and will refund its backers.
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A parakeet named Kiwi seems to have learned perhaps the most important thing it could from its owner -- how to summon Siri. The bird was recently filmed activating Siri on an iPhone.
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The University of Calgary has given into hackers that infected its computer systems with ransomware by paying $20,000 to get its data back. Authorities are now investigating the case.
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25-year-old Scott Larkin had his heart removed while awaiting transplant and was sustained using a backpack-encased artificial heart. Larkin not only survived 555 days with this portable heart, but he also thrived, returning home from the hospital and even playing basketball with the device.
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We may have finally found the suitcase that addresses all luggage-related issues. Say goodbye to the days of trying to make your way up and down stairs with a heavy suitcase in tow, and hello to the TraxPack.
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The Fairphone 2 is a smartphone with a conscience. Ethically sourced components, recycled plastics, and a modular construction so you can keep it for up to five years, cutting down on waste. The trouble is, you probably won’t want to keep it that long.
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Keeping track of 552 players and 24 teams isn't exactly a walk in the park. Check out our favorite apps for staying on top of all the action at Euro 2016. You won’t miss a single kick or goal with these handy mobile apps.
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French mass media company Vivendi now claims mobile gaming studio Gameloft as a wholly owned subsidiary following a hostile takeover, and publisher Ubisoft may be the conglomerate's next target, according to multiple sources.
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Drift's Compass camera brings affordability to the lifelogging market. The camera is tiny -- not much bigger than an Apple Watch screen -- weighs just 1 ounce, shoots 1080p HD video, and includes live-streaming capabilities.
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GPS service in some West Coast locations disrupted by tests, Lexus software updates goes terribly wrong, guy controls drone with circa-1989 Power Glove
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Despite a contentious relationship with Swedish streaming service Spotify over the years, Radiohead's latest album A Moon Shaped Pool will land in the company's catalog this month.
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Not all TV binges are created equal. Netflix has determined that there are degrees of binge sessions, with some shows being savored and others devoured. As a result, the company has used its data to create The Binge Scale.
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FarmBot Genesis claims to be "humanity's first open-source CNC farming machine." It claims to make farming easy by letting users tell the robot what plants they've put in the ground and then take a step back while FarmBot takes over. So long, sweaty farm work. FarmBot even comes with an app that makes IRL farming a game. Remember Farmville?
Cornetto wants to put an end to a serious problem -- series cheating. Stop watching episodes without your significant other with these NFC-powered rings -- they'll block access to shows if your partner isn't present.
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Microsoft has released build 14361 to Windows 10 Insider. It makes Edge officially compatible with the LastPass extension, and includes a behind-the-scenes Hyper-V feature developers will appreciate.
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The new film adaptation of Warcraft is projected to underwhelm at the domestic box-office, but it's doing so well in the rest of the world that it likely won't matter. It has already broken a record in China.
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After phasing out its small appliances in 2008, Braun is bringing them back to the market with the BrewSense coffee maker, MultiQuick immersion blender, and PureMix countertop blender.
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To create the incredible structures, Brown fed images of standard apartment buildings into fractal equations, plugged some random numbers into an algorithm, and generated sci-fi cityscapes reminiscent of The Fifth Element.
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If you're a bookworm, an ebook reader can be an important part of your life, one that allows you to read your books whenever and wherever you'd like. But which should you get? Here are five of our favorite models, whether you prefer Amazon's wears or those of Barnes & Noble.
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On Monday, Google released a new version of TensorFlow that supports iOS for the first time. TensorFlow is Google's machine learning software, which the company open-sourced last November and used to power AlphaGo. Engineers at Google have been actively working on a version of TensorFlow at least since then, CNET points out. The new release now lets iOS developer to build neural network features directly into apps, like the ability to parse sentence structure and or recognize people and objects in photos.
Google used TensorFlow to build its Magenta project, which aims to advance machine generated art, and recently released a 90-second piano melody created solely by a neural network. This gives an idea of the sorts of things the software...
Airbnb announced a handful of updates to its rental service this morning, including a collaborative wish list feature for planning trips with your friends. Wish lists arrived back in 2012 as a way to keep track of places you'd like to stay in the future. Airbnb says more than 20 million people have used the feature since then, and now it's opening it up to multiple users. By tapping the heart button on a listing, you can now add more users either by inviting them through Airbnb or through email. Wish lists will also now include a voting system so guests in a group can decide on the ideal location.
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Wish Star Trek was real life? Orion has released the Onyx, a digital communications device that sends and receives audio at the touch of a button.
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A new report indicates that AMD and Intel won't launch their new desktop processors, Zen and Kaby Lake, respectively, until CES 2017 in January. Prior to the report, AMD announced that its Zen platform is on track.
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Freetel, a Japanese mobile device manufacturer, is bringing its budget and midrange phones to the U.S. and Canada. The Kiwami is priced at $389 and the low-tier Priori3 is priced at $99.
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