Saturday, February 28, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 3/1/2015

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New screenshots show off GTA V PC graphics in 4K resolution
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After breaking the bad news about yet another delay in the release of GTA V for the PC platform, Rockstar Games today shared some new screenshots of the game that show off the kind of graphics you expect on the PC platform, at 4K resolution. The screenshots show off the enhanced visuals compared to the...

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Apple might be working on a Virtual Reality headset for its iPhones
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The virtual reality market is expected to boom by the year 2018 as the number of unique users using such products is expected to rise to nearly 200 million from the current 60 million. Wanting a slice of the pie for itself, Apple could be looking at coming out with a virtual reality headset of...

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Intel Atom Cherry Trail chipsets could disappoint, suggest early benchmarks
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It looks like Intel’s upcoming Cherry Trail chips may not be very impressive with regards to performance as preliminary benchmarks seem to show tiny improvements in performance over the previous-generation Bay Trail chips. According to the leaked Geekbench scores, the Intel Cherry Trail platform manages to score around 5 to 8 per cent higher than...

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Robots to take over work at Foxconn factories in three years
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Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company Foxconn expects to achieve 70% automation of workforce at its factories to take over the assembly line work. Currently, Foxconn employs around 1 million workers in China alone for manufacturing various electronics products, including Apple’s iPhones and iPads. Worker conditions at the Chinese factories have been a matter of...

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Swiss watch makers reveal new luxury smartwatch with 2-year battery life
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It was only going to be a matter of time until traditional Swiss luxury watchmakers finally decided to step up and come out with smartwatches of their own to take on smartwatches from Apple and Android OEMs. The time has now arrived as a Swiss company called Manufacture Modules Technologies (MMT) has launched its line...

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LG officially has four handhelds on Android 5.0 after Optimus G Pro update
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The two year-old erstwhile flagship joins the ranks of the G3, G2 and G Pro 2 on the Lollipop bandwagon. Not to be outdone by arch-nemesis Samsung, the other major South Korean device manufacturer has just raised the count of smartphones under its belt running Lollipop to four. We mean of course handsets previously on...

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New benchmark and ‘upleak’ further validate HTC One M9/M9 Plus specs
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As hard as it was to believe, HTC seems to be actually preparing two marginally different flagship devices for MWC announcements. Stop the presses, the One M9 and M9 Plus specifications are in. Again. Anything surprising to report? Maybe something previous speculation didn’t cover? Not exactly, but a golden rule of journalism says to always...

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LG and Huawei are the first rumored names as 2015 Nexus manufacturers
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But it’s way too early to take anything for granted, especially with questionable Chinese sources at this story’s origin. As the decrepit Motorola-made Nexus 6 and HTC-produced Nexus 9 reached the venerable age of four… months, it was about time we started delving into the matter of sequels. We kid, of course, since the two...

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Sony Xperia M4 Aqua and Z4 Tablet snapped in full glory ahead of launch
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A surprisingly premium-looking mid-range smartphone and ultra-slim top-tier tablet, that’s what Sony has in store for the 2015 Mobile World Congress. As if we didn’t already know enough about Samsung and HTC’s MWC plans to dedicate our undivided attention to the Barcelona expo from Sunday to Wednesday, we have a third high-profile exhibitor incapable of...

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Sprint employee leaks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge via contest image
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The images are the closest we can currently get to an official look at the two devices.  Samsung isn’t going to like this one, but at this point, the Korean manufacturer probably doesn’t even care. The Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Ede have been leaked extensively in the last couple of weeks – we’ve known that...

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Tesoro Gungnir Black optical gaming mouse with RGB illumination goes official
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Tesoro Technology USA Inc. today unveiled its new high-tech Gungnir Black optical gaming mouse that comes with customizable RGB illumination. The Gungnir Black gets its name from the spear Odin used in Norse mythology. It comes with a 3500 DPI optical sensor that ensures smooth and controlled movements when you are targeting your opponents while...

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Samsung announces industry’s first 128GB ultra-fast embedded memory for smartphones
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Samsung today introduced the first 128GB embedded memory for smartphones based on the UFS (Universal Flash Storage) 2.0 standard for next-gen flagship smartphones. The main highlight of the new UFS memory is the significant improvement in speed. The UFS standard makes use of the ‘Command Queue’ technology to speed up command executions in SSDs through...

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Google plans to take on Apple Pay with ‘Android Pay’
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According to a report published on ArsTechnica, Google is planning on launching a new payment API called ‘Android Pay’ at its I/O developers conference scheduled to be held in May. The new ‘Android Pay’ platform will be used for in-store as well as in-app payments for third party apps. Android Pay will work similarly to...

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Imagination Technologies reveals PowerVR Series 7XT GPUs with a claimed 1.6 TFLOPS in FP16 mode
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Imagination Technologies today revealed its new PowerVR Series 7XT GPUs that it will be announcing at the Mobile World Congress next week. The new PowerVR Series 7XT GPUs bring a significant leap in performance over the Series 6XT GPUs, with a claimed 1.6 TFLOPS in FP16 mode and 800 GFLOPS in FP32 mode. For comparison,...

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BlackBerry Leap leaks with mid-range specs
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The new BlackBerry 10 handset is expected to launch in April.  BlackBerry will soon be adding a new device to its portfolio if a new leak is to be believed. A handset said to be titled the BlackBerry Leap has shown up in live pictures – the device was supposedly codenamed BlackBerry Rio in the...

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Sony officially teases the Xperia Z4 Tablet
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The tablet will be announced at Mobile World Congress. The Xperia Z4 Tablet leaked out through a misstep on Sony’s part earlier this week, and now the Japanese manufacturer has taken to Twitter to officially confirm that the tablet will be making an appearance at MWC next week. “Slimmer. Lighter. Brighter. All will be revealed on...

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Apple sends out invites for March 9 ‘Spring Ahead’ event, Apple Watch & MacBook Air Retina expected
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Apple today sent out invites to a media event that it will be hosting on March 9 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Fransisco. The ‘Spring Forward’ event will be beginning at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time and will be live streamed by Apple on its website, just like the Apple iPhone...

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge gossip calls for production woes, high prices, low functionality
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Nothing altogether shocking, if you think about it, but displeasing nevertheless. March 1 is shaping up to be one of the most eventful, exciting days in recent memory for mobile consumers in general and Android enthusiasts in particular. HTC will unveil a slightly redesigned One M9 and vastly enhanced M9 Plus on Sunday as part...

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LG boosts battery, connectivity and RAM for non-Android Watch Urbane LTE
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Forget the Apple Watch, this baby is hands down the most stylish, feature-packed wearable around. Well, this is odd. LG literally just unveiled the Watch Urbane, billed as its first luxury Android Wear device, and already, an upgraded version is ready for primetime. Almost. It’s coming to Barcelona for the 2015 Mobile World Congress, and...

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Motorola announces Moto E (2nd Gen) with LTE and Android 5.0
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The new Moto E brings marginal upgrades over the original.  Motorola has officially announced the second generation version of the Moto E. The Moto E (2nd Gen) comes equipped with LTE connectivity, and also comes with a faster processor, bigger screen, and a couple of features previously seen only on Motorola’s flagship handsets. The new...

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