Month: May 2020
The Morning After: HP revealed its $599 Reverb G2 VR headset
This should be a big moment for virtual reality. A VR-only Half-Life game, powerful new consoles on the way and more people than ever stuck at home are creating an environment ripe for some VR exploring. The only problem? Valve’s excellent Index head… Source
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Here’s why your next phone will have superfast Wi-Fi
Qualcomm has unveiled its first ever Wi-Fi 6E chips, in a move that could propel the new wireless standard into the mainstream. The firm announced Wi-Fi 6E chips for both mobile phones (set to land in H2 2020) and wireless routers (which are already available to purchase). The new chips…
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SoftBank pours $500M into Didi in China’s biggest autonomous driving round
The race to automate vehicles on China’s roads is heating up. Didi, the Uber of China, announced this week an outsized investment of over $500 million in its freshly minted autonomous driving subsidiary. Placing the bet — the single largest fundraising round in China’s autonomous driving sector — is its…
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PS5 DualSense controller may get wireless charging and extra buttons add-on
With the PS5 launch on the horizon, we’re at a point where we know more about the next-gen console’s DualSense controller than we do about the PlayStation 5 itself. But that’s not to say there won’t still be a few more secrets to come for the PS5 gamepad. A newly…
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Nearly half of ecommerce searches on Google drive no traffic
New research has shown that almost half (48 percent) of all Google searches never result in a click-through to retail or other sites. A new report released by Searchmetrics, which analysed clickstream data in the US for about one million typical e-commerce search queries, found that nearly a third (32…
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6 Best Sunrise Alarm Clocks (2020): Homelabs, Philips, Casper
No bedroom window? No problem. These sun simulators might just make it easier to wake up and catch z’s. Source
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