consumer tech
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Oppo Is Jumping On the Smart Glasses Bandwagon, and They Don’t Look Terrible
Plenty of big-name tech giants have tried their hand at augmented reality headsets or smart glasses. Most have failed. That’s not stopping Oppo, however, which announced at its Oppo Inno Day conference today that it plans to release its own pair of smart glasses next year.
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Google Fit and Wear OS Are Getting Some Long Overdue Updates
While it’s hard to say that Wear OS is innovating the wearables field, in the past year it’s done quite a bit of catching up. Today, Google’s announcing a few new updates to the Google Fit and Wear OS that should help close the gap between it and other smartwatch platforms.
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Nintendo’s New Game & Watch Hacked a Day Before It’s Official Release
As exciting as it is to retro gamers to see Nintendo resurrect its earliest handheld consoles, with just three games on the new Game & Watch — two of which being Super Mario Bros. — it’s not surprising to see hackers already cracking the hardware open to see if there’s the potential to add more…
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Samsung’s First 5nm Chip, the Exynos 1080, Looks to Keep Pace with Apple
This week has been especially busy when it comes to new silicon, because almost immediately after MediaTek announced a number of new chips for phones and Chromebooks, Apple followed up with its big M1 chip. Now Samsung has announce its first chip designed using a 5-nanometre process: the Exynos 1080.