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Meta says it’s totally fine for 10-year-olds to wear its VR headset, probably

Meta will soon officially permit users as young as 10 to use its Meta Quest 2 and 3 VR headsets — if their parents say it’s okay, anyway. In a blog post, the tech giant says that there’s

YC-backed Eze raises new capital for its secondhand electronics marketplace

Eze, a B2B marketplace that connects global electronic wholesalers allowing them to trade devices in large quantities with real-time market data, has raised $3.7 million in an oversubscribed seed roun

Luminoah’s quest to reinvent tube feeding attracts new funding

When someone is very ill or has had surgery that interrupts ordinary ways of eating and drinking, tube feeding is a life-saving necessity, but it’s cumbersome and uncomfortable to use. Luminoah

Amazon’s ‘Hey Disney!’ voice assistant is now available

Amazon and Disney announced Thursday that “Hey Disney!,” the new voice assistant built on Alexa technology, is officially available in the U.S. for most voice-activated Echo devices. Hey Disney! m

Sony readies PS5 game streaming for PlayStation Plus Premium members

Sony this morning announced that it has begun testing PlayStation 5 game streaming. The feature is still early days, but it will eventually be available for those subscribed to PlayStation Plus Premiu

Google’s June Pixel drop brings new safety and health features

Google announced the June Pixel Drop today with features like the ability to schedule a safety check with Google Assistant, instant location sharing with emergency contacts in case of a car crash, a n

Putting the ‘Pro’ in Apple Vision Pro and other TC news

At WWDC this week, Apple revealed its new Vision Pro headset, a platform it described as the advent of spatial computing. The company clearly put a lot of work into building Vision Pro and visionOS, t

Apple WWDC 2023: Everything announced from the Apple Vision Pro to iOS 17, MacBook Air and more

Sit back and relax while the team runs down all of the biggest news in an easy-to-skim digest.

Apple’s Vision Pro headset seems too good to be real — because it basically is

Apple unveiled its new Vision Pro augmented reality headset today during its annual WWDC keynote, along with visionOS, the operating system that’ll power it. The hardware looked extremely impres

The Apple Vision Pro features an M2 chip, a ton of sensors and a new R1 chip

Apple unveiled its augmented reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro, at WWDC 2023. After showing the potential use cases for the device, the company said a bit more about the technical specifications.

EyeSight on Apple Vision Pro makes wearing a headset slightly more human

Apple unveiled its long-awaited AR headset at WWDC, called the Apple Vision Pro. One key difference between the Apple Vision Pro and its competitors is that you can see people’s eyes through the

Siri can finally find your lost Apple TV remote

I swear, the Apple TV remote is designed, specifically, to slip between cushions and fall into the black hole of a couch. The remote is tiny, thin, and so smooth. But I have great news. Today, during

iPadOS 17 adds upgraded widgets, customizable Home Screen and new native apps

Apple today unveiled the latest version of iPadOS at WWDC 2023. Called iPadOS 17, the new version builds on the past generation but adds several vital upgrades. For example, widgets are improved to fe

Apple refreshes the Mac Studio with the M2 Max and M2 Ultra

The Mac Studio, Apple’s small yet powerful desktop computer, is receiving a product update, announced today at WWDC. With this refresh, Apple is updating the silicon and replacing the M1 Max and M1

No one has done AR or VR well. Can Apple?

On Monday, Apple is more than likely going to reveal its long-awaited augmented or mixed reality Reality Pro headset during the keynote of its annual WWDC developer conference in California. It’

Lenovo’s Yoga Book 9i realizes the full potential of a dual-screen laptop

Lenovo’s Yoga Book 9i drew both appreciative and skeptical stares at CES earlier this year when it made its official debut: With two 13-inch OLED screens attached with a central hinge, it’

Arm launches new chip designs for faster smartphone performance during Computex

Just ahead of CEO Rene Haas’ keynote at Computex in Taipei today, Arm launched two new products designed to increase smartphone performance. The first is the Arm Cortex-X4, its fourth-generation Cor

Meet the tiny, wireless sleep apnea diagnostic wearable headed for the US

U.K. medtech startup Acurable has gained FDA clearance for a novel wireless diagnostic device for remote detection of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). A formal launch into the U.S. market is slated to f

The Backbone One: PlayStation Edition mobile controller is now available for Android

Backbone One — PlayStation Edition controller, made by Sony and Backbone, is now available for Android. Last July, both companies partnered to release an iOS version of the controller with a lig

The other DWI: Driving while immersed

I believe that putting virtual reality headsets in cars will kill people. VR is the most distracting medium ever invented.
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