Tag: the verge
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The Oculus Go
Adi Robertson has a review up of the $200 Oculus Go, a VR HMD with a built-in old-ass (seriously, it’s from 2016) smartphone chipset for people without a Samsung phone: The Oculus Go improves on the Gear VR in one big way: you don’t need a high-end Samsung phone to use it, so the headset…
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The HomePod Situation
Apple’s competitor to other standalone high-end speakers came out on Friday. It’s the HomePod. Apple boasts about its higher quality sound that adapt to the room you are in, reviewers agree. Nilay Patel wrote this in his review: All of this means the HomePod sounds noticeably richer and fuller than almost every other speaker we’ve…
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Let’s Intimidate NASA
Loren Grush for The Verge: Two weeks ago, Sidd Bikkannavar flew back into the United States after spending a few weeks abroad in South America. An employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Bikkannavar had been on a personal trip, pursuing his hobby of racing solar-powered cars. He had recently joined a Chilean team, and…
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YouTube’s Upcoming Paywall
Micah Singleton writing about the changes: The way you experience YouTube may be dramatically different before the end of the year. According to multiple sources, the world’s largest video-sharing site is preparing to launch its two separate subscription services before the end of 2015 – Music Key, which has been in beta since last November,…