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- IKEA plans to improve AR shopping tools with help from Apple
- Ripplemaker brings modular synths to all skill levels with an iOS app
- GM eyes HD mapping to boost self-driving car development
- Our favorite games of E3 2017
- GOP-hired data company leaked information on 198 million citizens
- Supermassive black hole dust is denser than we thought
- Seaweed could be the key to long-lasting electric car batteries
- LG's enhanced G6+ has more storage and premium sound
- 'Pokémon Go' to get raid battles and simplified gyms
- Varjo promises a VR headset with 'human eye-resolution'
- Light-sensitive bacteria could save you during a heart attack
- The Morning After: Monday, June 19th 2017
- Jay Z’s ‘4:44’ album will be another Tidal exclusive
- EU proposes banning encryption backdoors
- Twitter blocks a slew of Venezuela government accounts
- 'Killer Instinct' will be available through Steam
- Senate alters sanctions to allow use of Russian rocket engines
- Elon Musk says Los Angeles is open to using his traffic tunnels
- All the weird things you missed at E3
- Rapid-fire archery battles are the best way to do E3
- Google bets AI and human oversight will curb online extremism
- Microsoft expects consumers to 'figure out' which Xbox is which
- Discover your rockstar stage persona in ‘The Artful Escape’
- 'YotaPhone 3' isn't the dual-screen powerhouse you were expecting
- 'The Daily Show' celebrates the tweets of Donald Trump in new exhibit
| IKEA plans to improve AR shopping tools with help from Apple Posted: 19 Jun 2017 09:19 AM PDT  Apple and IKEA are creating an AR app that will let customers preview how an item will look in their home. Michael Valdsgaard, IKEA's digital transformation manager, told Swedish website Digital.di, "This will be the first augmented reality app that... |
| Ripplemaker brings modular synths to all skill levels with an iOS app Posted: 19 Jun 2017 08:59 AM PDT  There are plenty of apps that can turn your phone or tablet into a synthesizer, but they tend to fall into two camps: they're either affordable and simple or pricey and robust. While that's sometimes due to the nature of the instruments they're repl... |
| GM eyes HD mapping to boost self-driving car development Posted: 19 Jun 2017 08:33 AM PDT  Last year, GM bought Cruise Automation, a startup focused on self-driving car technology, and now it appears the automotive giant is getting serious about creating HD maps. Cruise Automation has just announced that it's recruiting a Head of Mapping,... |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2017 08:12 AM PDT  Now that our editors have escapred the confines of the LA Convention Center, it's time to reflect on what we saw at E3 2017. More than ever, there was something for everyone, and some of us couldn't pick just one "best" game. Whether you were at the... |
| GOP-hired data company leaked information on 198 million citizens Posted: 19 Jun 2017 07:51 AM PDT  Data from the largely conservative Deep Root Analytics, a company that strategizes how to target audiences for political advertisements, was exposed this month. Information on nearly 200 million US citizens, over 60 percent of the population, was con... |
| Supermassive black hole dust is denser than we thought Posted: 19 Jun 2017 07:09 AM PDT  The majority of galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their core. And, like our own Milky Way version, most of these black holes are relatively quiet. However, a minority of supermassive black holes are incredibly active, consuming dust, gas, an... |
| Seaweed could be the key to long-lasting electric car batteries Posted: 19 Jun 2017 06:43 AM PDT  Lithium-sulfur batteries are theoretically ideal for powering gadgets. They have more than twice the energy density of lithium-ion packs, but at a much lower cost thanks to sulfur's dirt-cheap price. There's just one problem: sulfur dissolves, giving... |
| LG's enhanced G6+ has more storage and premium sound Posted: 19 Jun 2017 06:21 AM PDT  LG's G6 is a nice smartphone that has sold pretty well so far, but with the arrival of Samsung's stellar Galaxy S8, it's trying to keep consumers interested with a few changes and a new model. First off, it has launched the G6+, an identical model to... |
| 'Pokémon Go' to get raid battles and simplified gyms Posted: 19 Jun 2017 06:00 AM PDT  A year after Pokémon Go captivated the world with its location-based catch-athon, Niantic is making some changes. The biggest is raid battles, a concept that was teased in the very first trailer for the game. They'll launch "in the coming week... |
| Varjo promises a VR headset with 'human eye-resolution' Posted: 19 Jun 2017 05:00 AM PDT  A Finnish company called Varjo that has been working in secret until now has unveiled a new type of VR and AR headset code-named "20/20." It supposedly has a display with "human eye-resolution" quality of over 70 megapixels versus around 1.2 megapixe... |
| Light-sensitive bacteria could save you during a heart attack Posted: 19 Jun 2017 04:02 AM PDT |
| The Morning After: Monday, June 19th 2017 Posted: 19 Jun 2017 03:00 AM PDT  Hey, good morning! Monday's back again. Elon Musk is talking to LA authorities about using his traffic tunnels, we play even more games from E3 2017, and Bill Nye is teaming up with Netflix. |
| Jay Z’s ‘4:44’ album will be another Tidal exclusive Posted: 19 Jun 2017 01:44 AM PDT  As you'd expect from the guy that owns Tidal, Jay Z is releasing a new album called 4:44 on June 30th, exclusively on ... Tidal. Also getting in on the action is Sprint, the US carrier that acquired a 33 percent chunk of Tidal earlier this year for $... |
| EU proposes banning encryption backdoors Posted: 19 Jun 2017 12:20 AM PDT  The European Union might want it to be easier for police to obtain data, but that doesn't mean it'll be easy for officers to read that data. The European Parliament has proposed amended regulation that would not only require end-to-end encryption wh... |
| Twitter blocks a slew of Venezuela government accounts Posted: 18 Jun 2017 11:22 PM PDT  Venezuela has been accused of censoring Twitter as part of its bid to silence dissent, but it's not so happy now that the shoe is on the other foot. The country's leadership says that Twitter has suspended 180 accounts linked to the government, inclu... |
| 'Killer Instinct' will be available through Steam Posted: 18 Jun 2017 10:14 PM PDT  Ever since the revived Killer Instinct launched in 2013, you've had to download it through one of Microsoft's online shops, whether it's on your Xbox One or your Windows 10 PC. However, you won't have to go that route in the next few months. Iron Gal... |
| Senate alters sanctions to allow use of Russian rocket engines Posted: 18 Jun 2017 08:10 PM PDT  Don't look now, but American spaceflight just dodged a bullet. Senators have passed an amendment to an Iran-Russia sanctions bill that, if gone unchecked, would have barred both NASA and private outfits from using Russian rocket engines. The original... |
| Elon Musk says Los Angeles is open to using his traffic tunnels Posted: 18 Jun 2017 06:57 PM PDT  Elon Musk might just have the first customer for his traffic-skipping tunnels. The tech entrepreneur says he's having "promising conversations" with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti about using The Boring Company's technology as part of a larger unde... |
| All the weird things you missed at E3 Posted: 18 Jun 2017 05:36 PM PDT  E3 2017 will go down in history as the first year the show was open to the public, which means the crushing crowds filling the Los Angeles Convention Center were even more extreme. The rest of the show, however, was just as amped up: eSports tourname... |
| Rapid-fire archery battles are the best way to do E3 Posted: 18 Jun 2017 04:30 PM PDT  Nothing gets rid of the E3 jitters like shooting an exploding arrow right at your social-media manager's face. Luckily, we brought TowerFall: Ascension to the E3 show floor this year, so nobody had to break out the actual bow hidden behind the Engadg... |
| Google bets AI and human oversight will curb online extremism Posted: 18 Jun 2017 03:37 PM PDT  Google is under a lot of pressure to stamp out extremists' online presences, and it's responding to that heat today. The internet giant has outlined four steps it's taking to flag and remove pro-terrorism content on its pages, particularly on YouTube... |
| Microsoft expects consumers to 'figure out' which Xbox is which Posted: 18 Jun 2017 02:45 PM PDT  The best way to keep a job as a marketer is to never go off message. And that's precisely what happened when I interviewed Xbox's head of console marketing Albert Penello on our E3 stage this week. Though he was more than happy to talk about the Xbox... |
| Discover your rockstar stage persona in ‘The Artful Escape’ Posted: 18 Jun 2017 01:45 PM PDT  "It's not an artist's job to give people something they want, but to give them something they never could have imagined." These words are spoken to Francis Vendetti in The Artful Escape, an upcoming game that follows a young guitar prodigy on a psych... |
| 'YotaPhone 3' isn't the dual-screen powerhouse you were expecting Posted: 18 Jun 2017 12:48 PM PDT  If you're one of the few people who are still waiting for the next dual-screen YotaPhone, listen up: we finally have an update for you. During Harbin's China-Russia Expo over the weekend, Baoli Yota -- the joint venture formed by investor Baoli (form... |
| 'The Daily Show' celebrates the tweets of Donald Trump in new exhibit Posted: 18 Jun 2017 11:45 AM PDT  The President tweets a lot. It's quickly becoming part of his legacy, offering an unprecedented level of access to the commander in chief and leaving others in government scrambling to deal with the aftereffects of each post. Usually, reflections on... |
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