Hangouts Meet, Google’s service for running video and audio meetings, is getting a few new hardware companions. The company today announced the Hangouts Meet hardware kit that includes a touchscreen controller, speaker microphone, 4K camera and an ASUS Chromebox to control it all. The Chromebox (an Asus CN62) is the nerve center of this kit. While Chromeboxes (which you can think of as… Read More
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Rylo creates shake-free standard video from 360-degree shots
I wasn’t particularly excited to take a meeting with another 360-degree camera company when I sat down with Rylo last week. It’s not that the tech isn’t interesting, or that there isn’t a future in it. For a majority of us, 360 video is, at best, an occasional novelty. But this Bay Area startup has the makings of something different. Read More
Amazon’s new Kindle Oasis is the best e-reader (a lot of) money can buy
A few years ago, the premium e-reader was an oxymoron. For Amazon, Kobo and Barnes and Noble, tablets were the clear high end of the reading market. For a moment, it seemed inevitable that e-ink devices would soon become obsolete. But the product…
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Microsoft will launch a Surface Pro with built-in LTE Advanced in December
Microsoft today announced that in December it will launch a Surface Pro with built-in LTE Advanced support to its business customers. Panos Panay, Microsoft’s corporate VP for Windows devices, made the announcement at the company’s Future Decoded event in London. In the announcement, Panay argues that as the global workforce evolves, being a mobile worker will become the new… Read More