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Everyone has something they want to shove on your face. Today Sony announced that it has thing it wants to shove on your face–Project Morpheus– will ship in the first part of 2016. The VR (virtual reality) headset was unveiled last year at GDC (Game Developers Conference) and because–as we learned earlier today–it takes Sony a year to do anything, it announced at this year’s GDC that it will be shipping the headset sometime in the first half of 2016. The headset will feature a 1920 x 1080 RGB OLED display with a 120hz refresh rate. The 5.7-inch display also has 100 degree…
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While Uber is great at raising money and angering the taxi industry and local governments, it’s not really known for acquisitions. Today that changed. Mashable reports that Uber has acquired mapping startup deCarta for an undisclosed amount of money. The mapping platform features local search, location based features, geocoding and routing. In other words, things that Uber needs for its app for drivers and users. Uber told Mashable that the acquisition will “make the Uber experience even better for our users.” ➤ Uber acquires mapping startup deCarta [Mashable]
Wacom has announced a new version of its smallest Cintiq pen tablet, the 13HD, named the 13HD Touch. It adds multitouch support to match its larger Cintiq siblings. The Cintiq 13HD Touch is almost identical to the previous version, but adds finger touch capabilities to the screen, which continues to work with the included 2,048-level pressure sensitive, tilt-recognition pen. With multitouch integration you can use familiar gestures for zooming and also mix pen and finger strokes together. Wacom envisions that artists may zoom with one hand and retouch with the other, for a natural interactive design experience. The tablet is also compatible with…
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As Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) approaches four years old, Google has announced today it will no longer release updates for Chrome on the operating system. In today’s announcement, Google said that it’s released twenty-four versions of Chrome for Android 4.0. The last version of Chrome to land on ICS will be Chrome 42. Ice Cream Sandwich is on 5.9 percent of devices running Android, according to Google’s developer statistics, leaving a decent number of phone owners in the cold. Users still using Ice Cream Sandwich should really think about upgrading their devices to a newer version of Android if possible, but can still continue to use…
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