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Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is reportedly ready for prime time again

Jul03
by on July 3, 2019 at 6:11 am
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Two months after Samsung withdrew the Galaxy Fold due to hardware and software problems, it might soon be ready for prime time. Bloomberg reported today the company has completed the redesign of the device that should solve all the issues that plagued the first batch of handsets. The report noted that while the Korean phone maker might be fit to launch the device, it doesn’t have a final date for when it’ll make the Fold available to consumers. Plenty of reviewers who received the phone’s unit early back in April, removed the protective film over the screen that wasn’t supposed to…

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Is Microsoft teasing a Netflix tie-in? Stranger Things have happened

Jul02
by on July 2, 2019 at 8:45 pm
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Microsoft yesterday took to Twitter and Instagram to tease social media denizens with a cryptic Windows 1.0 video. After you check your calendar to make sure it’s still 2019, check out the posts below: Introducing the all-new Windows 1.0, with MS-Dos Executive, Clock, and more!! 😲 💾 pic.twitter.com/guU4QxwsGG — Windows (@Windows) July 1, 2019 As you can see, the 13-second clip appears to be a teaser for Windows 1.0 – and that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. The inaugural version of Windows was released in November of 1985. And nearly 34 years later we’ve survived the horror that…

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Researchers invent multiplayer Tetris game controlled by brainwaves

Jul02
by on July 2, 2019 at 7:23 pm
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A team of scientists from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method by which three people can play a Tetris-like multiplayer decision-making game together using only their minds. Researchers, Linxing Jiang, Andrea Stocco, Darby Losey, Justin Abernethy, Chantel Prat, and Rajesh Rao, created the interface, dubbed BrainNet. It’s “the first multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving,” according to their reseasrch paper. It allows three people in separate rooms to, essentially, network their brains and work together. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the interface, the team came up with a new twist…

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