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AT&T and Facebook Reality Labs are joining hands to work on “collaborative video calling” as well as augmented reality experiences in Facebook’s applications. They are using Spark AR, it is a platform from Facebook that powers Augmented Reality experiences across devices and the company’s applications. Their first AR work is a...
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Square has decided to go ahead with building a bitcoin hardware wallet and service, a month after company CEO Jack Dorsey announced that it’s considering the move. Jesse Dorogusker, Square’s Hardware Lead, has revealed on Twitter that the company came upon the decision “to make bitcoin custody more mainstream.” He didn’t exactly have...
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As PC gaming has become a more mainstream hobby, there has been a lot of talk about how gamers can improve their experience. Once upon a time, this wasn’t something anyone thought much about. Gamers simply booted up their computers and started playing, whether that meant sprawling out on...
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Our phones are wonderful compact supercomputers that immediately connect us to all of our family and friends, as well as the entireness of human knowledge – so it’s no wonder that they can be extremely sidetracking. The Mudita Pure is a minimalist phone with no internet browser and an...
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Amazon is briefly refusing to certain stock items in its warehouses, to cope with the overwhelming demand for household basics due to the coronavirus pandemic. It suggests third-party sellers of non-essential items could find it hard to ship orders to customers. The move will last till 5 April and...
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Criminals can watch baby monitors and smart cameras over the internet by default, security chiefs notify. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is cautioning people to adjust the settings after buying them. Easy-to-guess default passwords might permit a hacker to see a home via connected devices secretly, it said....
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An official Sony patent itemizes a couple of next-gen features that could join PlayStation Assist. Sony has filed a patent for an in-built microphone on a controller for the goal of receiving voice commands, and while it hasn’t been verified that it’s for use with the PlayStation 5, it is...
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The Babel fish, from Douglas Adams’ superb A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is one of those thoughts that sticks in your brain. Similar to the fish itself, really; in the book, it’s a small yellow fish you shove into your ear that takes up home and has the amazing...
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The choice of safe driving is now about Reward Vs Reproach If the thought of endangering other lives isn’t enough to rein in the urge to use your phone while driving, perhaps that of losing out of some juicy rewards might. Many apps reward you for keeping away from...