Thursday, April 23, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 4/24/2015

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Project Fi goes live, $20 per month for Nexus 6 users
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Google launches US mobile service to wedge Android between Apple and carriers. The Internet giant announced today that it will begin offering a $20 per month basic service to Nexus 6 users ($10 per additional gig of data).  “Project Fi” enables mobile users to hop between carriers as they travel, meaning no roaming fees and...

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Facebook rolls out Hello, a social caller ID app
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Facebook has officially launched its caller ID app for Android. Details of the Hello app surfaced last month, and the thought of a feature-packed caller ID seems intriguing enough for us to stay tuned.  A month later and Hello is officially available in the US, Brazil, and Nigeria. The Facebook-curated software gathers information about the...

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CyberPowerPC introduces the Trinity gaming desktop with a unique design
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CyberPowerPC today introduced a new gaming desktop the Trinity gaming PC. This new gaming desktop features a unique ‘blade’ design with the common tower enclosure being split into three difference ‘blades’. This unique design not just looks super cool but also helps improve thermal efficiency as segregating certain components helps dissipate heat more efficiently. Aside...

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Microsoft Lumia 940 could launch soon with a 25MP PureView camera
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After completing its acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone business last year, fans of Windows Phone devices have eagerly been waiting for the first flagship Lumia smartphone to carry the Microsoft branding. Rumors about the first Microsoft Lumia flagship have surfaced today, courtesy of NokiaPowerUser. The website claims to have heard from reliable sources that Microsoft plans...

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Students take VR to new heights with feedback-enabled gloves
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A couple of engineering students from Rice University is taking virtual reality to the next level with a glove that lets you feel what you’re holding onto. Much of the news regarding virtual reality is centered around our vision, but what makes reality better than virtual is that it tingles all five of our senses—not...

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Maglev train breaks two world speed records in a week
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Just days after setting a world speed record, Central Japan Railway’s maglev train has broken the record again. Last week the maglev trained clocked in at 366 MPH, and this week the railway company thrust its speedy seven-car train to 373 MPH. The maglev—short for magnetic levitation—train hovers 4 inches above the tracks and is...

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Clever adaptive shoes adjust to kids’ feet as they grow
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a pair of shoes that grew as you grew? A group of well-doers by the name of Because International have come up with a clever way of addressing the world’s shoeless problem.  Poverty is damaging on many fronts.  People all over the world are constantly lacking basic necessities...

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Gigabyte debuts new GeForce GTX 960 ITX graphics card
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Gigabyte today introduced yet another GeForce GTX 960 card – the GTX 960 ITX. The new GV-N960IX-2GD card is aimed at compact PCs and is compatible with most form factors from ATX to mini-ITX. To easily fit in most compact PCs, the new GTX 960 ITX is only 181mm long, significantly less than the 247mm...

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Former Lionhead Studios chief now oversees HoloLens game development
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Microsoft is putting former Lionhead Studios chief in charge of internal development of several Xbox experiences, including the futuristic HoloLens platform. John Needham took over as Lionhead Studios’ chief in 2013 after a long stint at Sony’s Online Entertainment, and his promotion is telling of Microsoft’s commitment to virtual and augmented reality.  Lionhead Studios, was...

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Philips makes 60-watt equivalent LED bulbs available for just $5
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Cheap LED bulbs are hard to come by, especially the name brand ones.  Philips, however, is hoping they can change all that with their new $5 LED bulb. Touted as the most affordable 60-watt LED equivalent on the market, the new Philips LED bulb draws just 8.5 watts of and costs just $1.02 per year...

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Everybody chill, Sony may have a separate global flagship phone in the works
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Unfortunately, there are no guarantees this will be a real upgrade over last year’s Xperia Z3, and it could well launch under the far-from-encouraging Z3+ moniker. Remember that one time Sony suggested past mistakes were learned from and never to be repeated, with a mobile product release policy concentrated on “why” rather than “when”? As...

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Massive Android Wear update adds Wi-Fi, always-on apps to smartwatch platform
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Google isn’t ready to dispatch the goodie pack to actual timepieces yet, but it shouldn’t be long now. Acknowledging the original Android Wear build introduced back in June 2014 with Samsung’s Gear Live and LG’s G Watch was deeply flawed and lacking in basic functionality, the creators of the wrist-worn OS sent out a vital...

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LG G4 to go on sale in South Korea on April 29
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LG has confirmed the launch date of its next flagship before its official announcement. The LG G4 might not be a mystery anymore thanks to the plethora of leaks that have happened in recent weeks, and it seems LG is taking them in its stride and isn’t doing much to hide any more details. The...

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Biostar debuts new Hi-Fi B85S1 motherboard
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Biostar added a new motherboard to its Intel B85 chip architecture based Hi-Fi lineup – the B85S1. The Hi-Fi B85S1 motherboard is compatible with the LGA1150 socket and supports 4th Gen Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors. It has been designed for the Micro ATX form factor and as the name suggests, offers a...

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Patriot launches Ignite Series M2 SATA SSD for small form factor PCs
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Computer memory manufacturer Patriot today unveiled the new Ignite Series M2 SATA SSDs aimed at ultrabooks, notebooks, and other compact form factor PCs. The new Ignite Series M2 SATA SSDs utilize the NGFF (Next-Generation-Form-Factor) case free design and a compact structure that is 22mm wide by 80mm long. As far as performance goes, the new...

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AMD could launch the R9 390X and R9 395X2 graphics cards by June
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A new report published today by Fudzilla claims AMD is likely to introduce at least two new Fiji GPU based cards in June. Based on information available so far, the Fiji based GPUs in the AMD Radeon R9 300 series lineup will be the R9 390 and the R9 390X. However, the report claims one...

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Nokia all set to re-enter smartphone market next year
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Just as expected, Nokia is planning to re-enter the smartphone market with a new line of smartphones and other mobile devices by the end of next year. According to information received by Re/code, Nokia plans to come out with a range of new smartphones by 2016, with virtual reality devices and a few other ‘ambitious...

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WiFO: Wireless connection using LEDs, 10X the bandwidth of Wi-Fi
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Soon people may be able to leverage LED lighting tech to increase their Wi-Fi bandwidth up to 10X its current standard. Researchers from Oregon State University have created what they’re referring to as WiFO, a system that uses LEDs’ capabilities to produce beyond visual spectrum lighting to transmit and receive data.  Currently, the prototype WiFO...

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Mashing a flute and smartphone creates a smarter device
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Who would’ve thought that a flute and a smartphone could play so well together. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have come up with a way of combing the ageless instrument and a smartphone to create an even ‘smarter’ device.  What they essentially did was take the concept called ‘Acoustruments’ and integrated it...

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How to make your own BB-8 droid from ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
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What exactly do you need to make a BB-8 droid? When BB-8 rolled onto the stage at the Star Wars Celebration convention last week, we wondered what intergalactic tech were used to build the bot.  Amazingly enough BB-8’s origin isn’t anywhere far.  As a matter of fact you can create your own BB-8 replica with...

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