While HTC had showcased its new wireless controllers for its HTC Vive headset for the better half of last week in San Diego at Comic-Con, these headsets and controllers are only developer units. For its final, finished, consumer-ready Vive VR product, HTC executive director of marketing Jeffrey Gattis said, “We are targeting mid-October, but have not yet finalized the event details, venue, etc.” While this indicates that the final consumer
Release date, rumors and design Update: A new rumour points to a mid-November release date, with Apple playing it safe and shipping the iPad Pro in limited volumes to gauge how popular its larger tablet will be. With Apple’s thinner, lighter iPad Air (and now iPad Air 2) and Retina display-equipped iPad mini 3 out in the open, what’s left for Apple to do? Rumour has it that Apple is
Apple’s iPhone operating system started out so painfully simple that many smartphone users at the time just laughed. As it turned out, the world was dying for a simpler operating system for phones, and Apple’s iPhone flipped the industry on its head. It’s been a long time since the iPhone was first introduced though, and Apple’s mobile software has continued to grow more complex each year. The world has grown accustomed to iOS,
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Adobe devs must be working overtime to fix the latest vulnerabilities revealed through the Hacking Team cyberattack.
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con was as exciting as ever, but there was one interesting omission — Marvel Studios didn’t show up to discuss its upcoming slate of movies. No Captain America: Civil War, no Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and definitely no Infinity War. Instead, 20th Century Fox had to fill in the blanks with its own Marvel characters. DON’T MISS: Huge trailer leak: Watch the first ‘Suicide Squad’
This past week San Diego Comic-Con attendees got a look at some of the biggest projects Hollywood is working on — and that meant a whole lot of trailers. The behind-the-scenes reel for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the new Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer were no doubt the biggest hits, but there were a ton of other clips released during the convention. Ranging from a dance number
How good are you at resisting the pull of the pings emitted by your smartphone on a daily basis? Turns out those alerts can be distracting whether or not we act on them. Academics from Florida State University have found that phone notifications make our minds wander, even if we don’t pick up the handset – we start thinking about what the alerts could be and how we might respond
I’m going to be sweating forever I’m currently tapping this out in the back of my soon-to-be brother-in-law’s car as he takes me and my (now) fiancée to the airport for a week in New York. I’m sweating buckets because I tried to sneak in a quick interval run before we left, which meant I bolted in through the door with only a few minutes to go to disapproving looks
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