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You Rang? Microsoft’s Holoportation Redefines Face-to-Face Communication

Microsoft on Monday unveiled its version of a teleporter, called "holoportation," which was designed to transmit 3D models of people anywhere in the world ...

Amazon Power User Excommunicated

Amazon has carved another notch in its belt, adding one more customer to what it has called a "tiny fraction of cases" of people guilty of making too many returns ...

Apple Brings Back That 4-Inch Feeling

Apple on Monday announced a pair of new products in old sizes -- the 4-inch iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro -- banking on user preferences for the familiar form factors to lessen their hesitancy to upgrade ...

Low-Cost Bundle Beckons Gamers to PlayStation VR

Sony last week announced it would begin taking preorders for a cost-shaving virtual reality bundle ...

Instagram’s New Algorithm Promises Most Favorable Sorting

Instagram on Tuesday announced plans to dump chronological posts in favor of algorithmic recommendations ...

Xbox Signals It’s Ready to Rumble

Microsoft this week announced that it would support cross-network play between its latest gaming console and other platforms ...

Artificial Intelligence Learns the Ways of Minecraft

Microsoft on Monday unveiled AIX, a platform that its researchers have been using to turn Minecraft into an artificial intelligence learning environment. ...

USA Today to Experiment With Virtual Reality News Show

The USA Today Network last week announced VRtually There, a virtual reality news program that will evolve alongside the nascent VR sector ...

Oculus Opens Social Doors for Gear VR

Oculus VR this week launched Oculus Social for Samsung's Gear VR viewer ...

Intel Gets Into the FreeD Sportscasting Game

Intel on Wednesday announced its intent to acquire Replay Technologies, the company known for elevating the NBA All-Star Weekend with cutting-edge 3D graphics ...

Toyota’s Project Blaid Gives Visually Impaired More Freedom

Toyota on Monday introduced a concept for a piece of wearable tech that could help the visually impaired better navigate the world around them ...

Reviled People-Rating App Slithers Into Action

With its reputation preceding it, Peeple on Monday launched on the iTunes App Store ...

Epic Games Founder Rails Against Microsoft’s Walled Garden

Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney last week called on Microsoft to remove the walls it's building around the Windows Store with its Universal Windows Platform initiative ...

No Man’s Sky Cleared for June 21 Launch

Hello Games on Thursday began taking preorders for No Man's Sky, its procedurally generated journey to the center of the universe. ...

Meta Gives Devs a New Dream Machine

Meta on Wednesday began taking preorders for its Meta 2 augmented reality headset, and announced it would begin shipping the US$949 product in the third quarter of this year ...

Google Car Stubs Toe

One of Google's self-driving cars kissed a bus on Valentine's day, marking the first accident in which the one of the company's autonomous vehicles was at least partly at fault ...

Facebook Gives Marketers a Blank Canvas

Facebook on Thursday yanked the drapery off its Canvas, inviting marketers to splash it with their best promotions. ...

Superhot Warps Time

Three years of thought went into the think-between-steps shooter gameSuperhot, which was released Thursday ...

Atlas Robot Turns the Other Cheek

Google-owned Boston Dynamics on Tuesday gave the world a look at the latest version of Atlas, a bipedal robot that someday could threaten manual laborers' livelihoods ...

Facebook Uses AI to Map Population Density

Facebook has been using artificial intelligence to sharpen its focus on the roughly 10 percent of the world that has been overlooked by the Internet revolution, the company announced Sunday at the Mobile World Congress ...

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