Monday is a massive day of press conferences at CES 2019, and nestled among them is HTC. The company’s livestreaming its press conference on Jan. 7 at 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. UK) and CNET will be there. You can watch everything just by staying on this page. HTC has already […]
Alaska Airlines is taking in-flight movies to the next level. On Monday, Alaska Airlines announced that it will start carrying the Allosky VR headset as a form of in-flight entertainment for first class flyers. Alaska will begin piloting the program on its Seattle-Boston and Boston-San Diego routes. SkyLights’ Allosky lets you watch 2D, 3D and […]
Face scanning isn’t just for humans anymore. Norwegian fish farming giant Cermaq plans to roll out facial recognition technology at salmon farms that scan each fish’s head for sea lice, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Monday. Each individual fish will reportedly have a medical record that’s tracked over time. The spread of sea lice in salmon farms is […]
On Friday, Apple released the new Beddit 3.5 Sleep Monitor. It’s the first sleep tracker Apple has launched with Beddit since it acquired the company in 2017. The Beddit Sleep Monitor was registered on the FCC website earlier in the week, and now you can buy it from Apple’s website for $150/£149/AU$229. Like the previous […]
The world’s use of plastic is costing us, and our oceans, a high price. But thanks to scientists at the University of Swansea, there might be one solution to the waste that kills thousands of sea creatures every year. The new research, led by Dr. Moritz Kuehnel, would see plastic waste turned into hydrogen. If […]
About 35 years ago, to celebrate the coming of the year 1984 — made popular decades earlier by George Orwell’s dystopian novel — Isaac Asimov was asked to write about what the year 2019 might look like. The famed futurist and author wrote of a world dominated by computers and robots, where technology has replaced teachers […]
2018 may finally be the year you trade in your analog watch for something a little smarter. Over the last few years, wearable devices from companies like Apple, Fitbit and Garmin have become helpful tools that keep you connected while kicking your butt into shape. And with Black Friday deals like these, buying a smartwatch […]
Floating holograms. Space-age goggles. The Magic Leap One, the mysterious augmented reality headset, has been promised for so many years, it’s started to seem as unreal as the worlds it supposedly creates. We’re here to tell you: Magic Leap is a real thing. Its debut headset is now available to buy, but at $2,295 with […]
Magic Leap’s augmented-reality vision started as a comic book. And I’ve read it. The same art in the lobby at the check-in desk at Magic Leap’s Fort Lauderdale headquarters is from a comic that Andy Lanning, co-creator of Marvel’s 2008 revamp of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic and now Magic Leap’s executive creative director, […]
Now you can control your Spotify music from your wrist. Spotify on Wednesday announced its new app for Wear OS smartwatches. The app lets you pick a song or playlist, and pause, play or skip tracks on your smartwatch. That way you won’t have to pull out your phone in the middle of a jog […]