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It’s time for the ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament and Google is gearing up for it with an interesting new search feature.
When you search for cricket and Twenty20-related terms and the names of teams and players during and after matches, it will serve up real-time commentary in search results, from cricket greats like Akash Chopra and Boria Majumdar.
Google will also show you posts, match photos and videos directly from players when you search for them.
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While HTC and Oculus’ upcoming headsets look promising for VR fans, you’ll need to make room for a high-end PC, position tracking devices and all the cables needed to connect the headsets to your desktop.
Hardware firm Sulon believes it’s hit upon a better alternative. It says that its Q headset packs computing, graphics and spatial positioning processors into a single wireless unit so you can enjoy a full-on VR and AR experiences with no additional gear.
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After launching in select cities a year ago, Sony is expanding its PlayStation Vue streaming TV service across the US.
The company is adding 203 new markets and offering them a range of Slim plans that start at $29.99 a month for 55 channels and go up to $44.99 a month with more than 100 channels. That’s cheaper than the plans it offered at launch, which were available from $49.99 onwards.
The difference between these and the standard plans (available in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Ph

As Microsoft gears up to begin shipping the $3,000 Development Edition of its HoloLens augmented reality headset at the end of this month, the company is showing off one of its first AR apps for content creation. It’s kinda neat, if a bit cheesy.
Actiongram lets you create augmented reality stories by placing holograms of characters, objects and effects in your field of view and capturing them in action.
The video below demonstrates how you can choose from a range of props and characters,

If you’ve ever been interested in ride-sharing but didn’t have a ride to share, Lyft will make those concerns a thing of the past in certain cities.Today, in a partnership with GM, the company announced its ‘Express Ride’ program, which will allow users to rent a GM vehicle for up to 8 weeks with the purpose of picking up fares through the app and making a little cash on the side
“We’ve been thinking about this for a while, and we want to treat our drive

Anonymous declaring war on things is becoming rather blasé.
In December it declared war on Donald Trump, before that ISIS, and if you want to go back even further we’ve seen operations aimed at combatting the KKK, Scientology, Syria, and The Westboro Baptist Church.
“War” in this case is a call to arms that accompanies a threat to ‘dismantle’ Trump’s campaign by taking his websites offline with a large-scale and orchestrated di