Inside the New HTC One Duo Camera: A Whole New Way to Shoot

Inside the New HTC One Duo Camera: A Whole New Way to Shoot

There’s been a ton of speculation about the HTC One M8’s strange new camera. With one large lens on the back and a slightly smaller one just above it, no one quite knew what to think. Is it just a 3D camera? Is one telephoto and one wide? Is it a light field camera like the Lytro? None of the above.

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Moto 360 and Android Wear: Motorola talks Wearables

Google’s Android Wear may not be about any one smartwatch, but it’s clear that Motorola’s Moto 360 with its circular face and classical wristwatch styling has become the early poster … Continue reading

How LIVR Fooled the World (And Why the World Probably Deserved It)

One of the hottest new apps set to debut this week at SXSW, that annual intermingling of tenuous ideas and easy money, was LIVR, a social network exclusively for drunk people. Media and investors alike lined up to laud it. The only problem? As we first reported yesterday, LIVR was an elaborate hoax. Now it’s time to meet who was behind it.

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Jawbone talks context in bid to rule wearables: SlashGear Interview

“Data is nice, but understanding is better” Jawbone health platform product manager Andrew Rosenthal tells us, snapping his black UP24 around his wrist. You can’t accuse the former MIT hacker … Continue reading

Nokia X to help developers cash in around the world

As Nokia X is introduced to the world, Nokia suggests that they’re opening up a new door, aiming for a segment in the affordable international smartphone market that they’d not … Continue reading

Nokia X: potential for “hundreds of millions of users over time” says Dev VP

This week a little more than 24 hours after Nokia X was revealed at MWC 2014, we had a chat with Nokia VP of Developer Relations Amit Patel about what … Continue reading

Brighter beacons: Up close with Qualcomm’s Gimbal for Apple Stores

With Gimbal, Qualcomm has a device that breaks quite a few molds. Open source, secure, and conceptually cool, Gimbal has the ability to actually make a difference in your day-to-day … Continue reading

Beyond Glass: Inside Epson’s scheme to make the de-facto smart glasses

Epson can forgive you if your first thought when you hear augmented reality is Google Glass, even though you’re wrong. Google may never had actually described its wearable as an … Continue reading

EverQuest testing smartphone gaming for cross-platform guilds

Mobile gaming is a contentious topic right now, variously accused of being the future of play, a passing fad, or the insidious villain undermining and devaluing traditional consoles and the … Continue reading

EverQuest Next Landmark alpha lands today: Everything you need to know

Later today, Sony Online Entertainment does something the developer of titles like EverQuest, PlanetSide, and DC Universe Online has never done before: it invites gamers into alpha code that’s far, … Continue reading