News: Apple's Education-Focused iPad Event Pushes Augmented Reality Further into the Classroom
At Apple's education event in Chicago on Tuesday, augmented reality stood at the head of the class among the tech giant's new offerings for the classroom.
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News: The Best Black Friday 2017 Deals on Portable Chargers for Your Smartphone
With the holidays fast approaching, our smartphones are more important than ever — keeping in constant contact with family, organizing trips and gatherings, and online shopping is only a taste of what we put our smartphones through. All of that means a big strain on your smartphone's battery. That's why portable chargers are so necessary, and what better time to pick one up than on Black Friday.
News: GE Aviation Pairs Google Glass with Smart Wrench to Improve Process Quality
GE Aviation and their software partner Upskill are seeing success by giving their mechanics smart tools and smart glasses, the latter in the form of Google Glass.
News: For Virgin Mobile Customers, Twitter Just Became Free-er
How can something get more free than free? Well, in the case of Twitter, Virgin Mobile found a way with its newest promotion. If you have a 4G plan with Virgin Mobile, you can now access Twitter from your smartphone without it counting towards your monthly data allowance.
How To: iOS 11 Just Upgraded the iPhone's Storage Management System with More Features
One major iOS 11 improvement that Apple skimped out on during its WWDC presentation was the redesigned storage management system, which makes it easy to view storage consumption in greater detail on your iPhone — and even easier to free up storage space with surgical precision.
News: uSens Achieves AR/VR Tracking Through Single Stereo Camera
Computer vision technology maker uSens, Inc. has unveiled uSens Fingo, a camera module that enables tracking of hand and head movements for PC-based, mobile augmented, and virtual reality platforms.
News: Microsoft Introduced Acer's New Windows Mixed Reality Development Edition Headset
This morning, in an early morning session at GDC 2017, Brandon Bray, a senior program manager lead at Microsoft, revealed a mixed reality headset made in collaboration with Acer—a different headset than the one we saw from Acer at CES 2017 earlier this year. Also at the event, the name for Microsoft's holographic system seems to have changed from Windows Holographic to Windows Mixed Reality.
News: New Windows Holographic Virtual Reality Headsets Being Released to Developers in March
With the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Fransisco just a few weeks away, Microsoft Senior Program Manager Vlad Kolesnikov has announced via Channel9 (Microsoft's developer news outlet) that not only will new low-cost virtual reality headsets be coming in March to developers, but that they will be at GDC, too.
News: Today Only—Huge Deals on the Nexus 6P, Honor 5X, & Moto X Pure from Amazon
Last year's inaugural Amazon Prime Day may have been a bit of a bust, but the online retail giant seems to be making up for it this year with some killer deals.
News: Will the HoloLens Forget About Gaming?
Microsoft's HoloLens has many applications in the business world, both large and small, but what about gaming? Initial demos gave the impression that we could expect amazing first person shooters, platformers, and even Minecraft. Yet, as Newsweek noticed, the HoloLens was nowhere to be found at E3 this year.
News: Here's the Phone to Get if You're a Celebrity, CEO, or Drug Lord
Got some seriously sensitive information to keep safe and a spare-no-expenses attitude? Then the new Solarin from Sirin Labs is the smartphone for you and your $17,000.
News: Your Smartphone's Fingerprint Scanner Can Easily Be 'Hacked' with a Printer
Using a fingerprint scanner to keep intruders out of your phone might not be as secure as you think. Two researchers from Michigan State University, Kai Cao and Anil K. Jain, developed a relatively cheap and effective way to beat fingerprint readers, and successfully tested their method on a Samsung Galaxy S6 and Huawei Honor 7.
How To: Make a Badass Thor Costume for Halloween on the Cheap
With the explosive popularity of both Thor himself and The Avengers, Thor is an obvious good choice for a Halloween costume. But you don't have to opt for one of the pricey, pre-made costume choices found in every Halloween store in every city. Instead, craft your own in just a few steps, saving yourself money in the process.
How To: Get SwiftKey's All-Black Ninja Themes for Free
Ask around anywhere that Android users gather online, and you'll find that SwiftKey is almost unilaterally the most highly-recommended keyboard for our favorite mobile operating system. It's no surprise either—SwiftKey's combination of insanely accurate word predictions and rapid-fire gesture typing comprise a hard combination to beat.
How To: Get Cheaper Uber Rides During Peak "Surge Pricing" Times
This past Halloween, 26-year-old Gabrielle Wathen learned the hard way about Uber's ridiculously expensive surge prices. After a night out and an Uber ride home, she learned that the 20-minute drive cost her more than $360.
DIY Elsa Costumes: Icy Halloween Looks for Frozen's Snow Queen
When I was young, I wanted nothing more but to be able to freeze things just like one of my favorite X-Men characters, Iceman. Now, Disney's most successful animated film to date, Frozen, brought another icy childhood favorite to the scene—The Snow Queen. And with Halloween right around the corner, all of the princesses out there can get their chance at being ice royalty. While Princess Anna and Olaf the Snowman were the biggest characters in Frozen, Elsa is one of the movie's most memorable ...
Be Maleficent for Halloween: DIY Horns, Dress & Makeup for Cheap
Casting Angelina Jolie as Maleficent was a no-brainer on Disney's part. No one else could project beauty, elegance, and fear simultaneously just like the animated villain in Sleeping Beauty did. But what sets the character apart from other evil witches, or any other Disney character for that matter, is the sinister, yet gorgeous-looking horns and headdress. And with news that a Maleficent sequel is currently in the works, this will surely be a great Halloween costume this year.
How To: Bypass Filters, Firewalls, & Open Hotspot Restrictions on Your Galaxy Note 3
Ever use an open hotspot on your Note 3, only to find out that it's severely restricted to what sites you can access? While getting online with free Wi-Fi is great for those who have a limited data plan, when that one site you absolutely need to visit is blocked, you're left frustrated and sent back into the Wi-Fi menu for another access point.
How To: Replace Your Galaxy S5 Screen
The Samsung Galaxy S5 display can be replaced by most do-it-yourselfers with some basic mechanical skills and a few inexpensive tools. The good news is that once you replace your display assembly your screen will be good as new with no bubbles or dust on the inside. The replacement part is a bit pricey but that is a good percentage of the cost involved with manufacturing this device. Below is a video showing the entire process from start to finish. It's best to turn on your volume for the nar...
News: Awesome DIY Camera Crane
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News: The Police and Your Cell Phone Carrier Make a Great Team—Maybe Too Great
You know that feeling when your cell phone gets stolen and you figure it is pretty much lost forever. You could've used one of the millions of device managers and trackers, but ya didn't. And the Good Samaritan is not coming to your rescue.
How To: Get Split-Screen Browser Windows in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer
For anyone who uses computers regularly, the screen can become cluttered with different windows, tabs, and applications in no time. One solution to that mess is dual monitors, which allow users to be more organized and divide their work into two halves. The problem is that not everyone is fortunate enough to have access to more than one monitor.
How To: Unlike pages on Facebook
Liked out? It is possible to "Like" too much. If you've gone too far expressing your enthusiasm for Facebook fan pages, watch this video to learn how to delete, or unlike, Facebook pages. Manage your Facebook profile like a pro.
How To: Install a new programmable thermostat
If you are concerned about your electric bill, you might want to take control by installing a programmable thermostat. This will allow you to manage the temperature- and amount of electricity being used- in your home. The installation is simple and requires almost no tools.
How To: Create a feminine Dutch halo and short curly hairstyle
For girls, short hair is a lot easier to manage than longer strands, with one caveat: You're much more limited in terms of what hairstyles you can do. But fret not. If your hair doesn't quite skim your shoulders yet, check out this hairstyling video to learn two super cute, feminine looks for girls with shorter strands.
How To: Earm the Umbrage for Umbriss achievement in World of Warcraft
This video shows you the basics of how to manage the General Umbriss heroic in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Then, you're shown how to earn the special achievement, Umbrage for Umbriss. The fight is easy, but the achievement is a bit tricky.
How To: Cut and style naturally curly hair for kids
We think curly hair is awesome, and we're totally jealous of Taylor Swift's natural mane of beautiful blonde curls. But if you have curly hair then you know that oftentimes it can be difficult to manage, and that frizzies pop up at the first sign of humidity.
How To: Apply, control and manage effects in Resolume 3
Resolume 3 is a powerful program which allows you to edit both audio and video effects. This quick tutorial gives you a brief overview of the general effects feature, how you can apply effects and how you can eliminate effects altogether.
How To: Stop Google from collecting your private information
When you use Gmail, Google Maps, Google Documents or any of the other Google products, you send trackable information about yourself to Google. By going in and configuring your account settings in Google Dashboard, it's possible to manage the information about yourself that you send them. This informative video shows how.
How To: Find diamonds in multiplayer Minecraft games
This tutorial shows you a few good tips on how you can manage your multiplayer Minecraft game. There's a special focus on how you can mine for diamonds and other rare commodities when you've logged on to a multiplayer server.
How To: Solve the puzzles in Machinarium after breaking out of jail
Your little robot has been thrown in jail and managed to break out! But what happens next? This tutorial shows you how to thwart one of your black-hatted enemies and sneak past him to continue on through the robot castle in Machinarium.
How To: Use the CacheViewer Firefox Add-on to Navigate Your Cache
We've all been there, where we're trying to find that one thing in our cache but it's just eluding us. There's an easy and free solution to this pressing issue. Just use this Firefox add-on CacheViewer to manage and navigate your cache.
How To: Make the Minecraft creeper as your emblem for CoD: Black Ops multiplayer
This is a fairly easy emblem to make, and manages to show your love for two different video games at once - Call of Duty: Black Ops and Minecraft. Turn the pixelated face of the creeper into your new multiplayer emblem!
How To: Use the Notifications panel on an HTC Desire HD smartphone
Manage and read your alerts with the Desire HD's Notification's panel. Learn how to use it with this quick, official tutorial from HTC.
How To: Mod your Gamertag in in Modern Warfare 2 on an Xbox 360
You will need a transfer cable to execute this mod successfully. When you manage to hook up your Xbox 360 to your PC, you can get into the innards of the machine and edit or mod your Gamertag on your profile.
How To: Get the Nuketown mannequin secret in Call of Duty: Black Ops
If you manage to shoot the head off every mannequin in the Nuketown map when you're playing Call of Duty: Black Ops in multiplayer mode (which means you're going to have other things to worry about), you can find a great little secret!
How To: Use a ROM manager app on a Motorola Droid phone
Learn how to manage custom ROMs on a rooted Moto Droid Google Android smartphone with a ROM manager app. Whether you've rooted your own Motorola Droid smartphone or just want to learn more about the process, you're sure to be well served by this video guide. For more information and detailed step-by-step instructions, watch this phone hacker's how-to.
How To: Improve battery life on a Google Android smartphone with a battery widget
In this video tutorial, we learn how to use a battery widget to improve and bettery manage the battery life on a Google Android smartphone. Whether you own a Google Android smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to find much to take away from this brief clip and its advice. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Teach your kids to handle their emotions with self-control
Do your kids blow every problem way out of proportion? Do they need to develop some self-control? Watch this video to learn how you can teach you kids to manage their emotions and put their problems into perspective with discipline and teaching by example.
How To: Use and manage tabs in the Mozilla Firefox web browser
In this tutorial, we learn how to use a browser extension to add enhance the tabbed browsing experience within the Mozilla Firefox browser. Using the extension is an easy process and this video presents a complete guide. For more information, including a full demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful home-computing how-to.