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After a marathon two-and-a-half hour Google I/O keynote, the tech giant had one final surprise for attendees: a piece of cardboard. Developers at I/O walked away with a strange construction kit for a project named, imaginatively, Cardboard . See also: Google I/O 2014: Everything You Need to Know Cardboard is a way to create an Oculus Rift-like virtual reality viewer with your Android smartphone. Users can put together their Cardboard kits – which contains corrugated cardboard, some lenses, magnets, two strips of velcro and a rubber band. Put it together – along with your Android smartphone – and this is what you get. If you didn't get one of these kits in person, you can build your own using these design files . VR on the cheap Google wants developers to combine Cardboard with its experimental VR Toolkit to build immersive virtual experiences. Two Google employees at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris built Cardboard as part of a 20% project. Their … [Read more...] about Google Cardboard Was the Ultimate WTF Moment of Google I/O

Astonishing breaking news from France, where Apple has been hit with a huge fine for anticompetitive behaviour. The Cupertino company has been fined €1.1bn (roughly £1bn or US$1.2bn), while its wholesale partners Tech Data and Ingram Micro will have to pay €62.9m and €76.1m respectively. France's Autorité de la concurrence, or competition authority, announced the details of the decision in a (French-language) post on its site , accusing the company of being "coupable d'ententes", which would commonly be translated as forming cartels. It breaks down the sanctioned behaviour into three categories: 1. Apple's distribution of products in France between Tech Data and Ingram Micro, in a way that "'sterilised' the wholesale market for Apple products, freezing market share and preventing competition between the various distribution channels". 2. The imposition of fixed pricing on Apple's premium resellers. 3. Other forms of anticompetitive treatment of premium resellers, practices … [Read more...] about Apple fined a billion euros for ‘cartel’ behaviour in France

Time-saving robot vacuums do a great job with routine floor cleaning. Robotic vacuum cleaners proved their life-changing value during the last several years, and now they are more valuable than ever before. Robot vacs keep floors clean and give family members time to spend with each other or on favorite activities. We found several Roomba deals as well as other robot vacuum deals on brands like Ecovacs, Eufy, and Shark. You can find them all below. Today’s best robot vacuum deals iRobot Roomba i3+ (3550) Robot Vacuum with Automatic Dirt Disposal Disposal — $399 , was $600 Eufy by Anker, RoboVac L70 Hybrid, Robot Vacuum — $500 , was $550 Roborock S6 Pure Robot Vacuum and Mop — $520 , was $600 iRobot Roomba i7+ (7550) Robot Vacuum with Automatic Dirt Disposal — $599 , was $1,000 Roborock S6 Robot Vacuum, Black — $600 , was $650 Ecovacs Deebot T8 AIVI Robot Vacuum Cleaner, Black — $600 , was $800 iRobot Roomba s9+ (9550) Robot … [Read more...] about Best cheap robot vacuum deals for April 2021: Roomba, Eufy, Deebot

Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by A24, Netflix and Fox Searchlight Pictures It has been a very long road to the 93rd Academy Awards, and we probably don’t need to remind you of the reasons why . This weekend’s delayed April Oscars was not producers’ original plan (it probably wasn’t their sixth plan, frankly), and this will hopefully be the last time we stretch any awards season out this long. But at the end of the day, here we are, together at last, ready to see awards handed out in 23 categories, among a total of 56 nominated feature-length and short films. Watching all these nominated films has been an undertaking, though thankfully this year’s nominees were all much more available on streaming and VOD than ever before. Now, at the end of the longest Oscars season in history, it’s time to rank every single one of the nominated films, from 56th to first. This year’s crop of Oscar nominees is mostly very good (there’s no shame in being the 42nd-best movie … [Read more...] about Every 2021 Oscar-Nominated Movie, Ranked

I really wanted to love the new Moto X . Last year’s model is still one of my favorite Android phones. Motorola really struck gold with the design, which felt just right in one hand even though it had a relatively large 4.7-inch screen. It was light, pretty and it did some things no other phone could, such as always listening for your voice to wake it up. The new Moto X ($99.99 with a two-year contract from AT&T or Verizon, $499.99 unlocked) carries over many of those same ideas, but the execution just isn’t as good. The screen is larger at 5.2 inches, which makes it nice and big, but it’s also harder to use with one hand. It added leather as a design choice for the customizable back, but it creases easily. And parts of the experience — the camera UI in particular — aren't fully thought through. See also: Moto 360 Smartwatch Is Gorgeous, But Wait for Version 2 At least Motorola gets a lot of the hardware design right. The curved back and edged-off sides make the … [Read more...] about The New Moto X: A Lousy Battery Kills a Decent Phone