Month: May 2020

Virtual viewing parties that let people watch video together remotely have become a popular way to stay connected with friends and family amid the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier today, Hulu announced the addition of a new “Watch Party” feature for its site to make a virtual viewing experience a built-in feature of its service. Now, media software maker … Continue reading Plex launches a co-watching experience for its on-demand library and users’ personal media Continue Reading →

Valve helped HP design the G2’s lenses and near-field speakers. At the moment, the Valve Index is one of the best VR headsets you can buy. The problem is that it’s also one of the most expensive, which makes HP’s latest headset, the Reverb G2, intriguing. Designed with help from Valve and Microsoft, the G2 is a … Continue reading HP’s Reverb G2 VR headset delivers Valve Index features at $599 Continue Reading →

Qualcomm is quickly seizing on the newly opened 6GHz band, and it’s good news if you’ve ever dealt with overly busy WiFi networks. It’s rolling out mobile systems (FastConnect 6900 and 6700) and router platforms (Networking Pro 1610, 1210, 810 and 610) that use the new WiFi 6E standard to dramatically improve capacity and performance. The new … Continue reading Qualcomm’s 6GHz WiFi tech helps with crowded wireless networks Continue Reading →

‘We couldn’t find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment’ Astronomers have finally found hard-to-detect visible matter scattered across space, left over from the Big Bang, after searching for nearly thirty years, according to a study published in Nature. “We know from measurements of the Big Bang how much matter there … Continue reading After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe’s ‘missing matter’ – using fast radio bursts Continue Reading →

It won’t require AMP for pages to appear in Top Stories. Today, Google announced that it plans to add “page experience” to the factors it considers when ranking pages in Search. It will also remove the AMP requirement for stories to be featured in Top Stories on mobile. Google believes the changes will “help make the web … Continue reading Google will factor ‘page experience’ into Search rankings Continue Reading →

Beats the guidance it didn’t think would survive the pandemic VMware’s financial performance appears to have been virtually untouched by the novel coronavirus, after the company today posted fiscal Q1 2020 revenue of $2.734bn – four million dollars more than the guidance it pulled due to uncertainty about the pandemic’s impact on the world economy. The company … Continue reading VMware virtually untouched by virus, impact of private Keith Urban concert for staff uncertain Continue Reading →