If you’re still not convinced that 360-degree video is part of the long-term future of entertainment, let me point you in the direction of Google’s Spotlight Stories. Over the past few months, Google has been partnering with filmmakers to create 360-degree shorts to be watched on mobile devices.
This week, Google published HELP, its first live-action short — a monster movie directed by Justin Lin, who you might know as the director of Fast & Furious.
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We have good news and bad news about this deal, and we’re going to rip the Band-Aid off right now instead of peeling it off slowly and making you suffer. The good news is that B&H has an insane sale going right now that knocks $1,500 — that’s one thousand five hundred dollars! — off the price of the HP Omen Pro, a 15.6-inch notebook PC with specs that will completely blow your mind. But the bad news is that it’s currently back ordered, which means you can buy one now at the sale price and lock in your discount, but you won’t get your new laptop until sometime next month.
Is it worth the wait? You tell us: You’ll find the specs and key features for the HP 15.6″ OMEN Pro Multi-Touch Mobile Workstation laid out below.
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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump had a big win in the New York Republican primaries this week, but that doesn’t mean he felt the need to book an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. No worries, however, because Colbert brought back Cartoon Donald Trump to be a sufficiently entertaining — and overall more coherent and articulate — substitute.
This week, The Stephen and The Cartoon Donald discussed what he would do if there was a contested Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer and he had to compete with Senator Ted Cruz to win over reluctant delegates. The answer was obvious: Bribes, bribes, bribes.
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Opera made a big announcement on Thursday morning that was widely covered by tech blogs. In the latest developer preview build of its web browser for Windows and OS X, Opera has baked in unlimited free VPN service. VPN, or Virtual Private Networking, allows users to route their internet traffic through third-party servers in order to mask their actual IP addresses and increase privacy. VPN services also let users access region-blocked content, and they’re very popular among Netflix subscribers outside the United States.
This is a great feature for current Opera users and once it’s released in a public Opera build, it might even attract some new users. But you can already get unlimited free VPN service in the Chrome browser, and we’ll show you how in this post.
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The iPhone’s lack of expandable storage has created an entirely new breed of services and accessories aimed specifically at iPhone users. $650-$750 is a huge amount of money to pay for a smartphone with just 16GB of storage, and that 16GB of space always seems to vanish in a matter of weeks considering how big games and video files are these days. Even users with 64GB or 128GB iPhones often end up filling their handsets with data, and then the dreaded errors like “cannot capture video” begin to appear.
Several solutions exist for this problem. You can use a service like Google Photos to back up your images and videos, or you can use a device like the Lyve Home Photo and Video Manager. Personally, I like the simplicity and efficiency of a simple iPhone-compatible flash drive, and I may have just found my new favorite one.
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Even if you choose an installment plan, your iPhone will end up costing you $650, $850 or even over $1,000 when all is said and done and you factor in taxes. That’s the kind of investment you need to protect, but Apple’s AppleCare+ warranty might not be the best way to protect it. Sure you can swap out your phone if something happens to it, but you have to pay a deductible when you do. How about trying to make sure nothing happens to damage your phone in the first place?
The following are the five best-selling iPhone cases on Amazon in reverse order from No. 5 to No. 1. They start at just $4.98 with free shipping, so you really have no excuse.
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Who doesn’t want to see Matt Damon reprise his Jason Bourne role, am I right? Luckily for all fans of the franchise, the fifth episode in the Bourne saga is coming out this summer, with Damon returning to his quest of finding out who he is. After seeing a short teaser during this year’s Super Bowl game, it’s time to take a closer look at the first official trailer for Jason Bourne.
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A week ago, Tesla VP of Business Development Diarmuid O’Connel said in a speech in Amsterdam that Model 3 preorders are approaching 400,000 units. That’s a remarkable achievement for the company, whose aim is to sell 500,000 cars by 2020. But new comments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk seem to suggest the excitement around the affordable Model 3 electric car may have died down.
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People like to compare Elon Musk to a real-world Tony Stark, but that’s not really giving Musk a fair shake. For years, Musk has been a driving force behind some of the most impactful, important and revolutionary businesses on the planet. Whether it’s his involvement with online payments via PayPal or the incredible work he’s been doing at both Tesla and SpaceX, Musk continues to push the limits of what society things is possible.
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Well before Tupac Shakur became a household name and transcendent rapper – we’re talking pre-Death Row and even pre-Keep Ya Head Up – Pac was hardly one to shy away from speaking his mind and imparting knowledge upon the masses. Earlier this week, MTV News unearthed an old interview they conducted with Tupac back in 1992, months before his first album had even hit store shelves. During the course of the interview, Tupac waxes poetic on societal responsibility, poverty, the distribution of wealth and more.
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