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• Nike showcases sports recovery chair that heats, cools with style

  07-05-2016 23:27
  
  It's not the fountain of youth, but according to its creator it could give athletes a distinct advantage over opponents. The Microclimate Chair, created by LA-based architect Greg Lynn, allows athletes in sports such as basketball to get quick heating or cooling therapy by simply sitting in the chair rather than hopping in an ice bath or wrapping themselves in mounds of towels. Made from a combination of flexible carbon tape and carbon weave, the chair is embedded with roughly 70 Peltier thermoe
  
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• Academic questioned by American Airlines officials for doing math on plane - CNET

  07-05-2016 22:26 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: An Ivy League expert in search theory says the math he was writing may have been mistaken by a passenger for some sort of code, possibly terroristic. Oh, and he has dark skin.
  
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• Nvidia's latest offers low-cost, high-power boost to virtual reality

  07-05-2016 20:21
  
  In the age of mobile everything, a sexy, new PC graphics card struggles to find the proper acknowledgement from mainstream users. But even if you haven't installed a graphics card in years (or ever), Nvidia's latest, the GeForce GTX 1080, is worth paying attention to. Why? Because it promises to deliver a huge performance boost to one of the hottest new areas of computing: virtual reality. SEE ALSO: Nvidia moves into your living room with a device not just for gaming "Our first Pascal gaming GPU
  
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• Man climbs 126-year-old statue to take a selfie, breaks it into pieces - CNET

  07-05-2016 19:50 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: In Lisbon, Portugal, a railway station enjoys a beautiful statue of a 16th century king. Until a selfie-taker tries to climb it.
  
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• Alberta flies drones to find cause of epic Canadian wildfire

  07-05-2016 19:44
  By Rod Nickel LAC LA BICHE, Alberta (Reuters) - Fire-ravaged Alberta will use drones to investigate the cause of a huge blaze that has scorched the Canadian province and displaced some 88,000 people. Elevated Robotic Services, which has also deployed drones for mining and construction companies, has contracts with the Alberta government and insurance broker Hub International Ltd [HBINT.UL], said Mat Matthews, the Edmonton company's operations and safety manager. "It's like Google Maps but 100 ti
  
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• HTC Vive experiment delivers full arm tracking in virtual reality

  07-05-2016 18:48
  
  Current virtual reality systems like the HTC Vive can track your VR position relative to your real world body movements, as well as track your hand movements via controllers or gloves. But a new experiment from Manus VR allows you to submerge your body even deeper into VR, in this case, all the way up to your arms. The company, which showed off its VR gloves last year, just released footage of an experimental experience that allows you to have your arm and elbow movements tracked in VR. The dyna
  
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• Audeze Sine, a world class audiophile headphone, for a (relatively) affordable price - CNET

  07-05-2016 18:47 via cnet.com
  
  Here's a spectacular sounding, made in the US headphone, what's not to like?
  
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• Grab some free comics, Free Comic Book Day is today - CNET

  07-05-2016 18:45 via cnet.com
  
  Visit your local comic shop on May 7 to pick up a whole bunch of comics for free.
  
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• Audio-only VR: Is it ready for prime time? - CNET

  07-05-2016 17:47 via cnet.com
  
  VR audio makes sense as part of a virtual audio-visual experience. But VR sound without pictures makes my head spin.
  
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• Rachio Smart WiFi Sprinkler hands-on: Intelligent watering controlled by your phone

  07-05-2016 16:48 via zdnet.com
  
  Water is a precious resource so it's important to use it intelligently. The Rachio lets you control your home and business watering while on the road.
  
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• A Trump-inspired pie, and other weird pizza news of the week - CNET

  07-05-2016 16:00 via cnet.com
  
  From pizza boxes made of pizza to Trump-hand-sized slices, things got more than a little cheesy.
  
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• Grab free comics, Free Comic Book Day is today! - CNET

  07-05-2016 15:59 via cnet.com
  
  Visit your local comic shop on May 7 to pick up a whole bunch of comics for free.
  
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• Enel has presented informal offer for Metroweb stake: source

  07-05-2016 15:26
  By Silvia Aloisi MILAN (Reuters) - Italian utility Enel has presented an informal offer to buy a majority stake in fiber network company Metroweb as part of its plans to roll out a high-speed Internet network, a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday. The offer would see Enel acquire the 54 percent stake in Metroweb currently owned by infrastructure fund F2i for around 400 million euros, valuing the whole of Metroweb at 776 million euros, the source said. The preliminary, informal bid
  
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• Pen caps have holes because we filthy humans will gnaw on anything - CNET

  07-05-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  In today's edition of Saturday science. we bring you this: Holes in pen caps help prevent choking deaths by creating a small passageway for air to slip through.
  
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• How to choose the best Fitbit for you - CNET

  07-05-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Can't decide which fitness tracker to buy? Read this.
  
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• Holy Great Wall, Batman! The Huawei P9's Leica camera helped photograph my trip through Asia - CNET

  07-05-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  I took almost 200 photos and videos on the Huawei P9's Leica camera in six cities in Asia. Not every picture is a winner, but let this travelogue serve as the true test.
  
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• Blinded me with science: Life lessons I learned from fictional teachers - CNET

  07-05-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  As Teacher Appreciation Week ends, thanks for the lessons on sword fighting, meth making and using the Force.
  
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• Beastly diesels and sensible sedans: Our week on Instagram - Roadshow

  07-05-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  Until every single one of you follows us on Instagram, this is your weekend dose of catching up on all our activities from the past week.
  
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• 6 cities in Asia put Huawei's P9 to the test (pictures) - CNET

  07-05-2016 14:00 via cnet.com
  
  How well did this phone's two Leica cameras capture CNET editor Jessica Dolcourt's travels in Asia? Check out her photos to find out.
  
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• Man vs Food: I took on the McDonald's VR potato harvest simulator

  07-05-2016 12:33
  "Slow down," the farmer commands me, growing more aggravated. "You're spoiling the potatoes". On my dash computer "POTATOES ARE BRUISING!" starts flashing with such urgency you'd think the USS Voyager was in meltdown. If I go too fast the potatoes will fall off the back of the trailer; too slow and they'll start hailing on my roof. It's imperative I keep a steady pace at all times in order to prevent ruining these spuds from impact. This is Speed 3: Bruise Control.When I finally remove the Oculu
  
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• iOS 10 will be designed to control your smart home

  07-05-2016 12:15
  It's WWDC time next month, the developer conference where Apple will treat us to previews of iOS 10, the next OS X release and upgrades to watchOS and tvOS. We've already heard more than one rumour about what's coming.Now a source believed to work for Apple has spilled the beans on a standalone HomeKit app set to be introduced in iOS 10. Apparently, the next version of the mobile OS is going to get much more serious about smart home control.HomeKit has been with us since September 2014 but up un
  
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• Why 5G will be far more life-changing than you think

  07-05-2016 11:30
  Sometimes you don't realise how great technology is until you're forced to use previous generations. Dropping down from 4G to 3G makes mobile data feel like it's wading through treacle, and dropping from 3G to GPRS is even worse. I was briefly forced to use EDGE recently, and it made me homicidal.Once 5G arrives, we'll feel the same way about 4G. The tech industry likes to claim that every new thing it comes up with will change the world – but 5G genuinely will.5G: what it is and what it i
  
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• Windows 10 to cost $119 after July 29 video - CNET

  07-05-2016 10:50 via cnet.com
  
  Microsoft announced details on Windows 10. Meanwhile, Google is set to double its self-driving fleet of cars. Get all caught up in tech right here.
  
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• TechRadar Deals: Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge deals: Save up to £50 on Samsung's latest phones

  07-05-2016 10:35
  After the mobile phone deals madness at the end of last year, the phone market has been a bit quiet of late. But that seems to be changing, with hot voucher code deals starting to role in again.Yesterday we saw fantastic deals on the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus and iPhone 6 Plus, as well as a great HTC 10 deal.Today we've got some discounts on Samsung's 5-star Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones. With tariff refreshes having already settled down, these deals are clearly aimed at beating the m
  
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• The video game hall of famers

  07-05-2016 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Space Invaders and Grand Theft Auto III recently joined the likes of Pong and Pac-Man in the World Video Game Hall of Fame. The history of these games is also the history of how we play themThe road from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto III is a long and winding one, but this week both were inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. They join last year’s crop – Pong, Super Mario Bros, Pac-Man, Doom, World of Warcraft and Tetris – along with four other new inductees.The
  
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• Messing around with this virtual theremin is completely addicting

  07-05-2016 09:13
  
  If you've ever wanted to try messing around with a theremin, there's a virtual one you can try out online or on your phone, aptly called Theremin. SEE ALSO: 11-year-old electronic music producer dominates his first gig Theremins are strange early electronic instruments that typically look like a box with a metal rod sticking up out of it and another bent rod sticking out the side. You don't touch theremins; instead, theremin players wave their hands around both rods, which sense the relative pos
  
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• BBC follows Netflix in using online viewing data to help it pick new shows

  07-05-2016 08:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Commissioning teams experiment with using data from Twitter and Facebook as well as from 6 million-plus people who have signed up for BBC iDThe BBC is following Netflix in using online viewing data to help it decide which programmes to make.It is also experimenting with using social media such as Twitter and Facebook to help it make commissioning decisions. Continue reading...
  
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• Single-propeller 'drone' flies when you throw it like a frisbee

  07-05-2016 05:44
  
  A drone, or quadcopter as it's technically called, typically has four propellers to generate enough thrust to let it hover in the air. The propellers are arranged in such a way to counterbalance the weight of the drone itself. Researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich have created a new kind of flying machine (technically, not a drone) that only needs one blade to fly. SEE ALSO: The Air Case is the ultra-thin battery case Apple should have made The flying machine
  
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• Nvidia Ansel lets you snap masterful photos inside your video games

  07-05-2016 03:39
  Nvidia wants you to tap into your inner Ansel Adams with its newest toy, the world's first in-game 3D camera. Called - what else - Ansel, Nvidia's camera mode lets you snap shots inside your games like never before. Resolution can be pushed to 1,000x higher than 4K (or the resolution of 1,000 iPhone 6es, as CEO Jen-Hsun Huang noted), creating an ultra crisp picture to enjoy yourself or share with friends. Filters can be applied for more flamboyant shots, and you can even deploy your Photoshop sk
  
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• Updated: The new Nvidia GTX 1080 makes the Titan X look slow

  07-05-2016 03:33
  After a mountain of rumors and a big revealing leak, Nvidia's next generation Pascal graphics cards are here at long last.Nvidia pulled the wrap off two graphics cards, introducing the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 to replace the current generation of Maxwell cards that rocked the 2015 PC gaming world. Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder of Nvidia, explained the Pascal GPUs took over two years of development and over a billion dollars invested in research.The new GTX 1080/1070 cards utilize Nvidia's new 16nm Fin
  
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• Next level: HTC Vive 'arm controllers' totally immerse user in VR

  07-05-2016 02:34
  Virtual reality is finally here, but it's not what most people would call completely immersive. One of the biggest challenges with VR is modeling your hands and arms. The HTC Vive has two hand controllers, but they won't replicate your finger movements in virtual reality, and Oculus Rift doesn't even ship with with its promising Oculus Touch controllers until later this year. This is exactly what the Manus VR hopes to accomplish, by modeling both your arms and hands in virtual reality. You may h
  
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• Passwords and emails don't match up in cache of 272 million logins - CNET

  07-05-2016 01:59 via cnet.com
  
  Three email providers say their customers aren't at risk after the discovery of a hoard of login credentials.
  
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• Explained: OLED TV: what you need to know

  07-05-2016 01:40
  OLED TV explainedOLED: It's an acronym you've probably heard before in reference to the highest-grade television sets on the market, but maybe you're unsure exactly what it means and, more importantly, why it's so important to home entertainment lovers.In short: OLED truly is the next big thing in home entertainment and it's finally at a price where the average consumer can buy one their own. It offers better image quality (think blacker blacks and brighter whites), reduced power consumption and
  
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• 2016 Toyota Prius liftback review - Roadshow

  07-05-2016 00:54 via cnet.com
  
  You may not love the Prius' new look — we certainly don't — but there's no arguing with the hybrid's improvements in comfort, tech and, most importantly, efficiency.
  
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• Tesla Model 3 might already be running late (AutoComplete Podcast, Ep. 17) - Roadshow

  07-05-2016 00:24 via cnet.com
  
  Lots of updates from Tesla, pricing on a pair of hot cars, and yet more Takata airbag woes.
  
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• Tesla Model 3 might already be running late (AutoComplete, Ep. 17) video - Roadshow

  07-05-2016 00:22 via cnet.com
  
  Lots of updates from Tesla, pricing on a pair of hot cars, and yet more Takata airbag woes.
  
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• Apple wants you to make your own Mother's Day ad - CNET

  07-05-2016 00:19 via cnet.com
  
  Technically Incorrect: Insert yourself into Apple's Mother's Day ad...because mom will love it.
  
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• Facebook is testing a feature that lets you find more Groups

  07-05-2016 00:04
  
  Whether you're looking for parenting tips or the best new restaurants in your neighborhood, Facebook Groups is useful for finding virtual communities around various topics. Now Facebook is testing a dedicated "Discover" feature within the Groups section, making it easier to join conversations. A new tab will let you   browse public and closed Facebook Groups by category, including Groups your friends are in and local Groups. You can see what's gaining traction in your circle, and in yo
  
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