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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageColin Kaepe ick. Standing up for his principles? Stack/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET As protests go, it was as silent as you could get.While the rest of his team stood for the national anthem during a preseason game on Friday night, quarterback Colin Kaepe ick sat on the bench.When asked about it by NFL.com, Kaepe ick explained: "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid...
ادامه مطلب Close Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detention Drag Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detentionThis is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.I was in the kitchen at my parents' house when my phone vibrated. It was a WhatsApp message from a refugee in a camp in the mid...
ادامه مطلب Cseh was trying to keep pace with fellow competitors like US swimmer Michael Phelps, the Olympian who has won the most gold medals ever (22 and counting). Phelps won the 200-meter butterfly by just .04 of a second -- the closest margin of victory in history. "He led the whole way, but guys were chasing him right down to the end," said Pretty about Phelps. "One of the best displays of swimming I've ever seen." Let's block ads! ...
ادامه مطلب Josh Miller/CNET Samsung hoped that no Olympic athlete would leave Rio empty handed. The South Korean electronics giant provided the more than 11,000 athletes competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics with a special edition Galaxy S7 smartphone.One country, however, has refused the free gift. According to a report from Radio Free Asia, North Korea prevented the country's 31 competing athletes from receiving the complimentary smartphone. The report claims a North Korean official went to the Samsung office and took all of the phones that were to be provided to the country's athletes.Kim Song I, a North Korean athlete competing in table tennis, reportedly shook her head when asked by Radio Free Asia if she had recei...
ادامه مطلب Viewers streamed 883 million live minutes of the 2016 Rio Olympics through Tuesday. Screenshot by Josh Goldman/CNET Watching athletes break records on your phone has helped NBC break an Olympic record of its own. Through Tuesday, viewers streamed 883 million live minutes of the Olympics, blowing past the 818 million minutes of live video streamed for the entire 2012 London Olympics. That includes video streamed via NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. "The 2016 Rio Olympics is the first in US media history with prime-time Olympic coverage on channels other than the primary broadcast network," NBC said in a release. "It is also the first time that the broadcast network coverage, including primetime, ha...
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ادامه مطلب Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe's a tweeter. He's a winner. Dan Craven; Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I knew the headline was true, because it was on Twitter.More precisely, it was on the official Twitter Sports feed. It read, "Namibian#Olympics cyclist Tweeted through his entire race."Immediately, I pictured a heaving human with one hand on the handlebars and the other clutching his iPhone. Then I looked at the small print. Beneath Twitter Sports' headline that would no longer pass muster on Facebook was a clarification: "An Olympic cyclist 'live-tweeted' his entire race." (See those extra inverted commas?)The man i...
ادامه مطلب Enlarge ImageDaniel Chao, CEO of Halo Neuroscience, holds the Halo Sport headphones. Josh Miller/CNET Olympic sprinter Mike Rodgers is hoping a pair of high-end headphones will help him win gold.He and a handful of other US track stars have been training with Halo Sport headphones, which shoot electrical impulses into their brains to sharpen focus. That focus, he says, might be enough to give him the slightest of edges -- a millisecond or so -- at the Summer Games, which open in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. "I like what it's doing to my body right now," Rodgers said of the shiny black headset. Rodgers, a member of the 2015 world champion 4x100-meter relay team, has been training around the world with Halo for...
ادامه مطلب Athletes can't just focus on sticking the perfect landing or diving with flawless form at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. They'll also have to worry about Zika. Fortunately, it's not just athletes converging in Brazil. One organization is using mapping technology to track the spread of the infectious disease. Another is giving away smart thermometers to keep tabs on symptoms that might flare up. The World Health Organization launched a Zika app to provide information about the disease. After the Olympics, IBM will provide local authorities with ways to track weather, social media data and travel patte s. It's just the latest example where technology plays an increasingly critical role in the world of health care. The 2016 Olympic Games, a 17-day event that kicks off Friday night, provi...
ادامه مطلب Uchimura roamed too far in his search for Pokemon. Koki Nagahama/Getty Images Japanese Olympic gymnast Kohei Uchimura loves catching zubats and pidgeys, but perhaps a little too much.The five-time Olympic medalist racked up a $5,000 phone bill for data roaming charges while playing Pokemon Go in the run-up to the upcoming games in Brazil. Teammate Kenzo Shirai said Uchimura "looked dead at the team meal that day" after receiving the bill.But, things ended up working out for Uchimura: His phone company let him pay a daily flat rate of $30 a day instead of the 500,000 yen bill, according to Japan's Kyodo news agency.More Information ...
ادامه مطلب A still from Apple's latest commercial. Apple We've got more similarities than differences. That's the key theme of Apple's latest commercial, which is set to air during the opening ceremony at the Rio Olympics on Friday night, but was posted early on Apple.com and YouTube. It is the latest ad in Apple's "shot on iPhone" campaign, which uses photos and videos taken by its customers. The intent is to show off the camera capability of its iPhones. But Apple has focused more on social responsibility under CEO Tim Cook, and the commercial, narrated by author Maya Angelou, feels like it's part of that focus. The title: "Human Family."Let's block ads! ...
ادامه مطلب Enlarge ImageIf you're a business, you can only show so much of your Olympic pride. DANIEL SANNUM LAUTEN/AFP/Getty Images It's all fun and good until someone tweets the wrong thing.When the Olympics start Friday, social media is likely to light up with pride for sports, countries and various teams as they come together in Rio to compete for the next few weeks. But your local plumber will have to sit it out.Businesses have long been expected to keep their Olympic excitement to a minimum, as they can't use the famous five rings or other symbols and phrases from the games, since they're all trademarked. The conce is that the organizations around the Olympics don't want corporate sponsorships to lose value -- ...
ادامه مطلب With only three days to go before the opening ceremonies, Twitter is gearing up for the Rio Olympics, including a special section in its Moments feature capturing all of the games' biggest, well, moments. The social network is also releasing hundreds of Olympic-related emojis. Fans can get into the spirit by tweeting a three-letter country code hashtag displaying flag emojis for every team, including the Refugee Olympic Team (#ROT)."Twitter's activation of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will bring fans around the world together to see what's happening with the teams before, during and after the top athletes compete for glory," Leslie Berland, Twitter's chief marketing officer said a blog. "Twitter, Vine and Periscope will offer fans inside access, commentary, highlights, and conversation throu...
ادامه مطلب Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA nightmare past? MissTeenUSA/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You're likely still recovering from the excitement of Miss Teen USA.On Saturday night, 18-year-old Texan Karlie Hay beat four other white blonde girls to win the title.A darker shadow, though, was cast when screenshots of tweets apparently written by her emerged. These, from 2013 and 2014, contained several instances of the N-word and were posted on what appears to be her personal Twitter account, which is now set to private. Hay immediately took to the @RealMissTXteen Twitter account in apparent confirmation of her Twittering pas...
ادامه مطلب Country: AustraliaDay job: Chloe is a special needs teacher and Olivia is an IT consultantPlaying for: Two and-a-half years and one yearColours: Chloe plays red. Olivia plays red and black, black and whiteChloe: "I like to play because it's completely consuming and you can leave the rest of the world behind and focus on the game."Olivia: "The rules are easy to lea and it's fun." Let's block ads! ...
ادامه مطلب Enlarge ImageIf you owned a boombox, it may be somewhere in this room. Trademe For years, I had a boom box that was the envy of all my friends. It boasted not one, but two cassette tape players, so I could pop a recorded tape in one slot, a blank tape in the other, and crank out mix tapes like I was running a factory. Need a love tape so your boyfriend knows just what that Duran Duran song meant to the two of you? Want another copy of that Jane's Addiction tune you taped off the radio? Longing to send a medley of your favorite alt-rock hits to the cute guy you met at camp? Come on over, I think we can do business.My boom box is long gone, but a version of it probably exists somewhere in the collection of 40...
ادامه مطلب Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIt's curiously affecting. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Brands are desperate to infiltrate the Olympics Games because they assume everyone will be watching. Consumer electronics giant Samsung is among the official sponsors of the Rio de Janeiro games, which may not be entirely positive given the unfortunately typical terrorism threats, as well as the spread of the Zika virus and "super bacteria." But once the money is spent, you have to make the most of it. So on Thursday, Samsung released an ad that enjoys an intelligence of spirit, especially in this completely fractured world....
ادامه مطلب The US is one of 14 countries to get its own Olympic watch strap. Apple Apple has cooked up a new way for you to show your support your national team at the upcoming Olympic games in Rio by creating dedicated Apple Watch bands inspired by a selection of flags.But there's a catch -- they're only available in Brazil.Set to go on sale at the Apple Store at VillageMall in Barra da Tijuca in August for $49 (329BRL), the straps are designed to represent the flags of 14 major competitors in the games. Both the US and the UK get their own straps, as well as the Netherlands, South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, Jamaica, Canada, China, Australia, Germany, France and Brazil.Most people will have to wait for their...
ادامه مطلب The NBA will live-stream the US national team's exhibition games on Facebook. James Martin/CNET No need to go to Brazil to watch USA basketball. It's on your phone.The NBA will live-stream the US national team's exhibition games on Facebook, the league said Thursday. A total of nine games played by the men's and women's basketball teams will be streamed on both the USA Basketball and NBA Facebook pages. The men's team includes stars Kyrie Irving of the NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as Kevin Durant and Draymond Green from the Golden State Warriors.The games will also be retransmitted on NBA TV. The news comes two days after Twitter announced it would live-stream a weekly NBA pregame show on its ...
ادامه مطلب YouTuber PewDiePie made almost as much as "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Chris Pratt in 2015. Getty A clamoring mob is a clamoring mob, regardless of who's at the center of the throng.That's the lesson companies like Facebook are lea ing about inte et celebrities. Is Swedish YouTube personality PewDiePie on par with Brad Pitt? In a sense, it doesn't matter. In June, The Wall Street Jou al found that Facebook is paying celebrities and media outlets to use its new live streaming service, Facebook Live. Among those celebrities are recognizable names -- names that come from television and sports, like comedian and actor Kevin Hart or Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps.On Tuesday, a new list of names emerged o...
ادامه مطلب The Olympics are venturing into virtual reality for the first time, letting you beam yourself into the middle of your favorite event -- but only if you have a Samsung Gear VR and pay for cable or satellite. Samsung and its Gear VR headset will be the exclusive virtual-reality device to watch the first Olympics VR footage of the games in Rio starting in August, the company said in a release Thursday. Josh Miller/CNET A high-profile event like the Olympics is Samsung's bid to widen VR's appeal to more mainstream consumers and encourage their loyalty. Samsung is competing with rivals like higher-end Oculus Rift from Facebook and Vive from HTC in the buzzed-about, immersive format. By clipping a Samsung smartp...
ادامه مطلب RoadshowNewsAuto TechUsage up, price down: Chevrolet slashes cost of 4G LTE dataEnlarge ImageUsage nearly doubled in a single quarter in 2015. Chevrolet Data isn't cheap, whether it's going to your phone, your games console or your car's embedded modem. Thankfully, one of those destinations is about to cut its data-plan pricing, which...isn't what normally happens. Now, if you opt for a 4G LTE data plan in your Chevrolet, there'll be a little more dough in your pocket.Most plans are now 50 percent cheaper, and there's a new, mid-range option as well. Opting for 1 gigabyte of in-car data each month used to cost $20, but now it's down to $10. The $80, 10-gigs-per-month plan is down to $40, and the annual plan...
ادامه مطلب Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWalling himself off, instead of sharing? James Martin/CNET The words were uttered with fervor.Or the minimally raised voice that passes for fervor in Silicon Valley.There was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying in April: "I hear fearful voices talking about building walls. If the world starts to tu inwards, then our community will just have to work harder to bring people together."He was clearly referring to wall-advocate Donald Trump. But, well now. Here's a tale from the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where Zuckerberg has a home. As Kauai newspaper The Garden Island reports, some local residents are ups...
ادامه مطلب Gone is the campaign material on the "Vote Leave" website. All that is left is this banner. Screenshot/Vote Leave The successful "Leave" campaign in the UK's EU referendum debate has wiped its website of all vestiges of the material it used to make its pro-Brexit case.The full website has been replaced by a static banner thanking supporters for their hard work and votes, spotted Guardian reporter Alice Ross. An archived version of the site, which features all of the campaign material, can still be seen online. "On 23 June, it's safer to Vote Leave and take back control," the subhead on the website used to say. "We should stop sending £350 million per week to unelected politicians in Brussels, and spend our ...
ادامه مطلب Enlarge ImageIs this Samsung's next special edition phone?Evan BlassRumor has it that Samsung will release an exclusive version of the Galaxy S7 Edge for the 2016 Rio Olympics. This wouldn't be a huge surprise coming from a sponsor that has already released an emotional ad about the Olympic Games.Though the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Olympic Edition was initially reported three months ago when SamMobile "received information" about the device, a newly leaked photo from Evan Blass has surfaced and rekindled the rumor's flames. Blass has a reputation for reliably breaking stories through his Twitter handle evleaks.The purported Olympic Edition of the phone looks very sleek. It's all black, save for red and green buttons on the sides; gold trim around the home button and receiver on the front; a...
ادامه مطلب Ibtihaj Muhammad hopes to highlight diversity in sports during the Olympics this summer. Sarah Tew/CNET Ibtihaj Muhammad, one of the top-ranked fencers in the world, will make history this August when she becomes the first US woman to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab. Though she's already helped highlight diversity in sports, an episode at the South by Southwest conference in Austin this year shows there's still a lot of work to be done. At the conference registration desk, she was asked to remove her hijab for an ID photo. She called out the request on Twitter and SXSW apologized. CNET caught up with Muhammad last week at a Visa press event, where the company was showing off a new ring that ...
ادامه مطلب Enlarge ImageNew ways to pay are cropping up all the time, and include watches, phones and now rings. Sarah Tew/CNET At the Olympics this August, athletes will be practicing in all kinds of biking, swimming or running gear. And those tight outfits don't leave a lot of room to carry a wallet.With that in mind, Visa, a major sponsor of the Olympics, on Thursday revealed a ring that allows folks to make payments. The prototype, which can be used at NFC-powered payment terminals, will be given to the 45 athletes sponsored under Team Visa in hopes of testing out the new concept at the games in Rio de Janeiro."This is a device packed with all the security Visa provides that's small and not gaudy to wear," Chris ...
ادامه مطلب This year's Olympics are scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jeremy Walker/Getty Images An open letter signed by more than 100 doctors, researchers and scientists from all over the globe is urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to reexamine the seriousness of the Zika virus and its impact it can have on the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games held this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.The letter outlined seven key facts about the Zika virus (which is spread by mosquitoes and currently has 32,000 cases in Rio alone) that would render the games unethical to run, including the fact that Rio's mosquito-killing program was unsuccessful; that Rio's health system is "so severely weakened as to mak...
ادامه مطلب [embedded content] You, too, can ride on a rocket as it makes its way back to Earth, courtesy of a video shot from a camera on board a Blue Origin booster. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is working on a reusable rocket to send shuttles to space, a move that will help reduce launch costs. His Blue Origin booster has now made three retu jou eys beyond the Kármán line, the point at 100 kilometres altitude above sea level that represents the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.On its third jou ey on April 2, Blue Origin reached an altitude of 103.4 kilometres (339,138 feet) before retu ing to Earth. That launch and fall was filmed by the Blue Origin team, but the booster had a sneaky surprise hidden in its vent: a camera that filmed its...
ادامه مطلب Frank May/DPA/Corbis Snapchat has officially entered the social-media race for Olympic gold. The millennial-friendly ephemeral-messaging app, which has morphed into a home for both amateur and professional video clips, has scored a deal with NBC to show highlights from the 2016 Summer Games. It's the first time the TV network has let anyone other than its own properties distribute such highlights, reports Bloomberg.The Snapchat deal, limited to the US, involves a couple of pieces. Snapchat itself will create daily "live stories" -- real-time video and photo montages -- made up of clips and shots submitted by fans at Olympic trials and events. Buzzfeed, meanwhile, will curate an NBC Rio Olympic "Discover" ...
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