T-Mobile announces March 18 event in New York; calls it ‘a real piece of work’
T-Mobile has sent out an invite tonight for a March 18 event in New York City that it promises will be “a real piece of work.”
You could stream Jennifer Lawrence’s new movie before it’s in theaters
But you probably won’t — we’ll explain. Can’t wait for the day when you have a real choice on when and where to watch new movies (legally)? A new movie featuring some of Hollywood’s hottest stars is actually giving you a taste of that, as Serena is available on iTunes, Xbox Video, Google Play, Vudu and other VOD services right now, before it hits theaters in the US on March 27th. It features Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, so why the unusual treatment? As its 27 percent Rotten Tomatoes score indicates, this period drama apparently isn’t very good and has been on the shelf since it was shot in 2012. It debuted overseas late last year and is only now getting released in the US at all. It’s backwards release schedule is at least an effort by the studio, as we recall Miley Cyrus’ LOL being unceremoniously dumped into a few theaters back in 2012. There’s a trailer embedded after the break if you’d like to judge for yourself, but at $10 a pop for a rental, we’re guessing it’s a Netflix/Amazon/Hulu night instead.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nqt1I1OL_Hg?rel=0
[Associated Press]
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Microsoft sues Kyocera over alleged patent infringement violations
Microsoft filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against smartphone maker Kyocera late on Friday, claiming that the Japanese-based company has violated seven patents that are owned by Microsoft.
Dive into a sci-fi game anthology full of stars and weird games
Game jams are marathon sessions where game makers put together a game in a short period of time, typically just one or two days. Naturally they’re unpredictable — as likely to conclude in quick interactive jokes as they are substantive games. Sometimes 48 hours of game development ends with Broforce. Other times it ends with Kitty Punch. Rather than invite all game makers to come together for a non-stop creative session, Antholojam founders Zoe Quinn and Alex Lifschitz invited creators to pitch ideas based around a theme and then gave them a month to complete their vision. Now there’s Antholojam 1: A Golden Age of Sci-Fi Anthology, gathering together 15 beautiful and strange games resulting from the first of these curated jams.
How strange is the set? Consider Killing Time at Lightspeed by Gritfish, an old-style adventure game that has you traveling from Mars to a distant planet on a commercial ship over 30 years. You pass the time reading email, news stories and talking with other passengers to fill in the gaps on who you are and why you’re making a trip that requires you to live a third of a life in transit.
If you still want to ponder how space and time travel go hand in hand, you can also check out The Lost Chrononaut. Watercolor illustrations and ambient electronic music straight of a ’70s sci-fi movie count among its charms. Chrononaut‘s story, meanwhile, sends you to the year 2060 to explore and the whole thing is presented as card game. Once you’ve wrapped it up there are still 12 more games to explore in the anthology. It can be played for free at the Antholojam homepage.
Source: Motherboard
More leaked photos of the HTC One M9 Plus appear sporting a… physical home button?!?!
Earlier today, we got our first look at what is tentatively being called the HTC One M9 Plus. Essentially a normal M9 with a Quad HD screen, there wasn’t much the previous photos gave us in terms of information, apart from the fact the camera module looked different. Now we’ve got yet another photo of the M9 Plus, […]
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T-Mobile announces March 18 event in New York; calls it ‘a real piece of work’
T-Mobile has sent out an invite tonight for a March 18 event in New York City that it promises will be “a real piece of work.”
Overdog brings interest-based matchmaking to Xbox One preview members
Finding people to game with on your Xbox One just got a bit easier tonight — if you’re a part of the console’s preview program, that is.
It appears that, starting tonight, Xbox One gamers in the preview program can access a new app called Overdog that enables them to connect with other players based on common interests.
Google reportedly working on an Android-powered virtual reality platform
Virtual reality seems to be the new craze in the tech world, and it’s been growing in popularity ever since Oculus created its Rift headset. Samsung has offered up two different variants of its Gear VR headset, and we just saw HTC’s new Vive headset, created in partnership with Valve. Even Google made its way into the space with the launch of its Cardboard platform last year. But according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Google is developing a platform to reach more users than Cardboard ever could.
According to “sources familiar with the matter”, Google has assembled a group of engineers to bring Android to the virtual reality world. The report states:
Those people said Google has “tens of engineers” and other staff working on the project. Google plans to freely distribute the new operating system, they said, mimicking a strategy that has made Android by far the most popular operating system for smartphones, powering more than one billion phones.
At MWC 2015, Google’s Sundar Pichai commented on the virtual reality space, explaining that he thinks VR has many use cases in our world today. Pichai didn’t comment on Google progressing into the VR field, especially with Android. But still, considering Pichai’s enthusiasm on the topic, a more advanced move to the virtual reality world might make sense for the company. Just over the past few years, Google has brought its OS down different avenues like Android Auto, Android TV and even Android Wear.
But for now, Android VR is just a rumor, so we’ll need to wait and see what the company presents in the future.
T-Mobile announces March 18 event in New York; calls it ‘a real piece of work’
T-Mobile has sent out an invite tonight for a March 18 event in New York City that it promises will be “a real piece of work.”
There’s no telling what T-Mobile has in store for this event, but the invite featuring a single tag-line falls in line with what we’ve seen from past uncarrier events. The only other hint that T-Mobile gives is a message saying it is “rewriting the rules of wireless again!” For a recap, during T-Mobile’s most recent Uncarrier 8 event, the carrier unveiled Data Stash to the masses.
In any event, join us on March 18 at 12:30pm Eastern when we’ll report on whatever the Un-carrier has in store. In the meantime, feel free to speculate below!.
Hands-On With the Collapsible Magnetic ‘TextBlade’ Keyboard for iOS Devices
Back in January, WayTools, a company known for its high-quality NextEngine 3D laser scanner, surprised the world with a collapsible, magnetic keyboard unlike anything we had seen before. Called the TextBlade, the keyboard garnered a significant amount of attention from the media and from prospective buyers who were intrigued with its unique design.
Commenters here on MacRumors and across the Internet were immediately curious about the TextBlade, and had several questions. How does it work? How easy is it to use? What’s the learning curve? How does it feel?
Today we’re going to answer all of those questions and more. Yesterday, WayTools invited MacRumors to visit its headquarters in Santa Monica to get an exclusive hands-on first look at the TextBlade. We met with WayTools CEO Mark Knighton, and a group of engineers who helped develop the product to get details on how it works and to try it out for ourselves.
Design
The first thing that’s important to know about the TextBlade is that its design, which is the culmination of years of work and experimentation, has been engineered to be completely different from any keyboard that’s on the market today.
According to Knighton, the company did not set out to develop a keyboard for the iPhone or the iPad, they set out to develop a keyboard that’s a better experience, overall, than any available keyboard, mobile or desktop.
Portability is one of the key qualities that dictated the design of the TextBlade. The team at WayTools firmly believes that an accessory designed for the iPad or the iPhone should be smaller than the device itself. The TextBlade is approximately 1/3 of the size of an iPhone and it weighs an ounce and a half, so it’s barely noticeable in a shirt or pants pocket.
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