Nokia revealed they’d be releasing a new tablet in October of 2021. They compared said device to their 2017 release of their newest take on the indestructible smartphone – the legendary Nokia 3310. Now, here in the year 2021, it’s time to revive the dream that Nokia designers have been teasing for what seems like forever. If we look back … Continue reading
Slowly but surely, it seems HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us is coming together. Earlier this year, HBO announced that it found its Joel and Ellie – Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, two actors who rose to prominence in a certain HBO show called Game of Thrones – and now it looks like production has started on the show. … Continue reading
Google announced a set of feature updates to their wearable platform Wear OS this week, starting with YouTube Music for some Wear OS 2 devices. This newest update expands the feature abilities of Google’s main music service beyond the few devices in the world running Wear OS 3. Now, even if you own one of the first list of Wear … Continue reading
YouTube Music is rolling out to some Wear OS 2 smartwatches starting today. Gen 6 smartwatches from Fossil and Michael Kors will be able to stream music from the service, as will Mobvoi’s TicWatch Pro 3 GPS, Pro 3 Cellular/LTE and E3 models. The app was previously released for Wear OS 3 and the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4.
It’s the first YouTube Music smartwatch app that supports offline listening. If you’re a YouTube Music Premium subscriber, you can download songs you can listen to offline and without ads. You’ll be able to leave your phone at home and still listen to music while you work out or go for a walk.
The app includes the Smart Downloads feature, which updates the songs on your device when it connects to WiFi. Google says Premium subscribers can listen to more than 80 million songs and thousands of playlists from their wearable. The app, which is available through the Google Play Store, will hit more Wear OS 2 devices later this year.
Spotify rolled out an updated version of its Wear OS app last month. It also lets users download music to their smartwatch and stream tracks without the need to have a phone nearby.
Facebook will soon let folks who still have an Oculus Go do so much more with the virtual reality headset. The company will release an unlocked build of the operating system, which users can sideload to get full root access and do just about anything they want with the device.
This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down.
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) September 24, 2021
Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack made the announcement in a tweet spotted by The Verge. Carmack clarified this only applies to Oculus Go, and not Oculus Quest. He noted that he’d been pushing for the move for years and that “getting all the necessary permissions for this involved so much more effort [than] you would expect.”
Although Facebook discontinued Oculus Go last year to focus on Quest headsets, it’s nice to hear it hasn’t forgotten about the older model entirely. The unlocked OS could ensure that Go headsets won’t be totally obsolete.
Carmack pointed out that the build will let anyone who finds an unopened Go in the future update the headset to the final version of the OS — even after the servers are closed. He also expressed hope that this will set a “precedent for when headsets go unsupported in the future.”
When the build is ready, Carmack said it will likely be available through the Oculus website. However, he suggested Facebook has yet to finalize the distribution plan.
From what I recall, Chucky was only three feet tall in the movies, and he was quite the tiny terror at that size. So can you imagine what sort of damage the little devil could do if he were five feet tall? Fortunately for you, you can always just pop this inflatable Chucky doll with a pin if he gets out of control and starts murdering your neighbors.
This light-up, blow-up Chucky doll is dressed up in his iconic Good Guys overalls and striped shirt and has all the facial scars he suffered over the years. Now, as soon as I typed “blow-up Chucky doll,” it dawned on me that there’s probably someone out there with a Chucky fetish, and things just got really creepy. Hopefully, I’m wrong, but as the Internet has proven time and time again, I’m almost certainly not.
You can grab the inflatable Chucky doll from Amazon (affiliate link) for about $60, and you’ll have a blow-up friend ’til the end.
On the surface, two Star Wars characters that have no reason to be mashed up are Ahsoka Tano and C-3PO. One is a Togruta, the other is a droid. One is from The Clone Wars cartoon, the other is from the live-action movies. One is gold plated, the other is orange. But, since they were both sort of brought to life by…
It’s impressive that in just 15 years modern smartphones have already advanced to the point where they can bend and fold to more easily squeeze into a pocket. But the evolution of flexible displays is far from over, and Samsung has recently demonstrated an OLED that can stretch like it’s made from rubber.
A contract dispute between YouTube TV and NBC Universal could result in the Peacock Network dropping 14 of its channels from the streaming TV provider by September 30, both services warned on Sunday, which would leave the platform’s more than 3 million subscribers without access to programming like Sunday Night…
After a year of waiting, Wear OS 2 users are finally getting the YouTube Music app. The move, while overdue, is part of Google’s continuing efforts to make Wear OS 2 better while we wait for Wear OS 3 to roll out to non-Samsung Galaxy 4 smartwatches.
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