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The worst gadgets we’ve ever touched

The Verge

But after months of delays, what actually shipped was a gigantic, painful-to-use smartphone with outdated specs, mediocre cameras, and an awful-looking, blurry attempt at glasses-free 3D that bordered on painful to use — all of this while costing an astonishing $1,300. The Ouya bravely asked if there was another option. Just kidding.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The hope is that these new analog chips will use dramatically less power making them useful for any of the mobile and distributed applications on machines that aren’t always plugged in. The main constituency: Any developer who will happily trade a bit of precision for a big savings in electricity.

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Finding the Best ebook Creator | 10 Best ebook creation software

Kitaboo

iBooks Author – eBook authoring tool by Apple, helps create books for Apple devices. You can sell your eBook through the Blurb Bookstore, Amazon, Ingram, and Apple iBook store. You can export your eBook in different file formats if you do not want to limit it to an Apple device. Download Now! Hit the publish button.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people.

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eBook Creator: Turn Your Ideas into Professional eBooks

Kitaboo

The tool allows you to leverage images as well as text to easily integrate formats like video, audio presentations, games, augmented reality, and 3D animations into your eBooks. Step 7: Set Licensing Parameters: Define the licensing parameters and access duration, providing a tailored and secure reading experience for your audience.

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We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype

GeekWire

And will this represent a tectonic technological platform shift — along the lines of the internet and mobile revolutions — or is it simply a lot of hot air? Rapid development in 3D, AR, VR, new hardware, digital payments, etc., SyncFloor provides micro-licensed music to digital creators. Meta Photo). What is the metaverse?

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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer on launching the new Xbox

The Verge

It also feels like we’ve reached an inflection point for game streaming: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft all have services that allow you to play games on any device by streaming them over the internet — a plan that has led to controversy and conflict with Apple, which has put up roadblocks for these services in the iOS App Store.

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