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Samsung HMD Odyssey Joins Microsoft’s Mixed Reality World
Microsoft's mixed reality ambitions always extended far beyond HoloLens. Today at a press event in San Francisco, HoloLens creator Alex Kipman revealed what's next for Windows Mixed Reality and the newest partner device added to the ecosystem—the Samsung HMD Odyssey....
Fanless PS4 Created Using Wood, Stone, Aluminum
The only noise you want to hear when playing a console game is the audio coming out of your TV. But all games consoles have fans to keep them cool while pumping out 1080p or 4K visuals. If you want a completely silent console, it's time to start modding, and that's...
Need to Quick-Charge Your iPhone? Grab This iPad Adapter
Apple's iPhone 8 features quick charging, which is great, because slow charging has long frustrated iPhone owners. We tried three different chargers and found that Apple's $19 iPad charger offers the best balance of fast charging and low price, using cables you...
Google Pixel 2: What We Know
Google's Pixel 2 phones will be announced at a 9 a.m. event in San Francisco on Oct. 4. Plenty has leaked about them already. Here's what we think we know. How many phones will there be? Two Google phones have recently passed the FCC. The smaller Pixel 2 will be made...
Ford Trying Out New Car Designs Using HoloLens
Ford's vehicle design process is getting a major upgrade, thanks to Microsoft HoloLens. The automaker on Thursday announced it has "been swapping some clay-sculpting steels and rakes for mixed reality headsets and visualization software" to more quickly prototype...
iTunes Movie Rentals Now Good for 48 Hours
Apple just made it a little more attractive to rent movies off iTunes, especially for those of us with short attention spans who can't sit through a whole feature film in one sitting. Now, once you start watching a movie you've rented on iTunes, you have 48 hours to...
iFixit iPhone 8 Teardown Finds Qualcomm Gigabit Modem
The iPhone 8 runs Qualcomm's finest modem—it just doesn't have the antennas to deliver its finest performance, iFixit's annual iPhone teardown reveals. The most notable part in iFixit's teardown is the Qualcomm X16 modem with its WTR5975 RF transciever. This is the...
Apple Watch Is Sprint’s First CDMA-Free Phone
The new LTE Apple Watch Series 3 doesn't have the CDMA radio system upon which Sprint and Verizon have long relied. And yet it makes phone calls. No Sprint device has combined those factors before, and the watch's abilities hint at a future when a wider range of...
Microsoft, Facebook Complete Transatlantic Marea Internet Cable
Microsoft and Facebook have finished laying their massive Marea Internet cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the companies announced Thursday. Running from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Bilbao, Spain, the cable spans more than 4,000 miles and weighs almost 10.25 million...