Oppo’s monocle-style Air Glass wearable looks fit for a Bond villain

If I were a spy, I’d surely want Oppo’s new Air Glass in my gadget bag, or rather on my face. No, that’s not a typo, Oppo’s ‘assisted reality’ headset can be worn only on one eye — kinda like a monocle. But it looks cool nonetheless. Looks are half of the appeal of the fashionable wearable, with a sleek frame and flowing lines.The whole setup weighs just 30 grams. Oppo’s unit can easily snap to prescription glasses with magnets....

3 min · 503 words · David Ellison

Oppo’s under-screen camera is better now, but only in a prototype phone

A phone screen with no notches, bezels, or cutouts — that’s the dream, right?Manufacturers have tried stuff likepop-up camerasin the past, but everyone wants to achieve a workable under-the-screen selfie camera that’s practically invisible. Oppo now uses smaller pixels in the display area around the selfie camera to maintain 400 pixels per inch density on the screen. The earlier version had a different pixel density around the self camera module. Plus, it’s usingtransparent wiring which is 50% narrower, and provides “ a smoother visual experience....

2 min · 352 words · Shannon Mccoy

Oprah Winfrey turns to Facebook and Twitter execs for help

When your website is in trouble, who do you call? To save her website after traffic has plummeted since her daytime talk show ended in May, Oprah Winfrey, being Oprah Winfrey, has called upon Silicon Valley’s elite team of experts. Winfrey will be meeting with none other than Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Demand Media’s Richard Rosenblatt and LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner at an event to be held at the home of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, considered the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley as reported byThe New York Post....

2 min · 259 words · Joshua Austin

Optical fibre-based 100Mbps broadband connections to debut in India

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the government-owned telecom and broadband provider in India, announced on Saturday that it would soon initiate a program that would see the rollout of optical fibre-based connections in Pune, Maharashtra with speeds of up to 100Mbps, according toa report by DNA. BSNL principal general manager V.K. Mahendra announced in a press conference on Saturday that the company had completed the installation of its Fibre to the Home (FTTH) network in the city and successfully tested it out....

2 min · 373 words · Scott Bender

Optimize the standard YouTube player with DVD-like controls

You’d think the YouTube player would have more options by now, controls similar to what’s available on a DVD remote, things like skipping scenes and zooming would be nice options to have. A free service calledEmbedPlusaims to fill the void of the missing features within YouTube’s basic player and brings users options like scene marking, annotations,with additional tools such as slow motion, and the ability to read the video’s real-time commenting from YouTube within the player....

2 min · 343 words · Crystal Conrad
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