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Up, up and away: NetMotion sends a Skype connection into the stratosphere
The curving Earth and the black sky of space serve as the backdrop for NetMotion Software’s balloon-borne contraption, outfitted with an iPad that maintained a Skype connection at an altitude of 85,000 feet. (NetMotion Software via YouTube)
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Close to the Sun Review
Close to the Sun is an enthralling alternate-history thriller that explores the implications of a reality in which all of Nikola Tesla’s ambitious, wild, and often deranged ideas came to life. Some pacing problems and repetitive trial and error segme...
Google plans new browser tools on privacy, ad transparency
Alphabet Inc unit Google in the coming months plans to introduce new internet browser tools to limit how users' web activity is tracked by advertising companies and give them greater insight into why certain ads are shown to them, the company an...
What Will Ghost Recon and Call of Duty Be Like When They Return?
On this week's Xbox show, Ghost Recon appears to be returning soon, as does Call of Duty. We debate what each might look like. Plus: Sea of Thieves Anniversary Update impressions, PlatinumGames laments how Microsoft has been treated in the wake...
Match Group quarterly revenue beats on higher Tinder subscribers
Match Group beat quarterly revenue estimates on Tuesday, as it added more subscribers to its popular dating app, Tinder.
You Could Have a Region of Your Brain Dedicated to Recognizing Pokemon
Researchers at Stanford University have discovered that people who played Pokemon as children in the 90s might share a small region of their brain where all of that information is held, according to a new study.
As reported by , a published in the sc...
Live transcription and captioning in Android are a boon to the hearing-impaired
A set of new features for Android could alleviate some of the difficulties of living with hearing impairment and other conditions. Live transcription, captioning, and relay use speech recognition and synthesis to make content on your phone more acces...
FAA convenes multi-agency board to review Boeing software fix
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it had convened a multi-agency Technical Advisory Board to review Boeing’s proposed software fix on the grounded 737 MAX.
Game of Thrones' Coffee Cup Has Been Removed From Episode 4
Following the now-famous , the episode has since been updated and the coffee cup has been digitally removed from the scene, according to .
The episode update is reported to have occurred sometime during overnight hours in the US, which HBO did confir...
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau will discuss the future of mobile at Disrupt SF
Founded in late 2013, did the impossible, coming seemingly out of nowhere to take on some of the biggest players in mobile. The company has made a name by embracing a fawning fanbase and offering premium smartphone features at budget pricing, even as...