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Guide: The Best Augmented Reality Apps for Android – January 2021 Unlike virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) does not create a world of its own. Instead, as the name suggests, it uses digital images to improve things in the real world, effectively combining information with entertainment. For example, when you point your smartphone camera on a map, an AR app can show you all the gas stations in the area. Likewise, when you point it up to the sky, the app will show you the names an...

With the beginning of a new year, many of us tend to not just review the past year, but to look ahead to what the...

Rena lifeboat among top ten most popular Trade Me Motors listings of 2020 12 Jan, 2021 06:39 PM 3 minutes to read The Rena lifeboat was one of Trade Me Motors most popular listings in 2020. Photo / File The Rena lifeboat was one of Trade Me Motors most popular listings in 2020. Photo / File Bay of Plenty Times A reminder of the 2011 Rena maritime disaster made waves on Trade Me last year. An original lifeboat from the stricken Rena cargo ship which grounded on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast o...

  If youre a long-time Windows user, jumping over to macOS may seem to need a lot of effort, but its a lot easier than it appears at first glance. Heres what you need to know about switching over from PC to Mac. Most PC users who make the transition over to Mac have to come to terms with what appears to be a major change in the way they think about computing, as Mac and PC seem to be very different environments. This may have been a big hurdle years ago, but after years of people using iPhone...

The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert Why did the twentieth century produce so many — and such vivid — dystopias, works of fiction depicting not an ideal future but a future as terrible as could be imagined? After all, never had material progress been greater; never should man have felt himself freer of the anxieties that, with good reason, had beset him in the past. Famine had all but disappeared, exc...

It’s a good idea to periodically back up your computer. You want to make sure your documents, photos, and files are protected in case of hardware failure, software glitch, or malware attack. Apple makes this process easy for Mac users with the built-in Time Machine tool that lets you back up your entire system and then restore individual files or the entire drive. You can trigger manual backups or set them to run automatically. Backups can be stored on an external drive, another Mac, network...

Cover Illustration to “The Time Trap of Ming XIII.” Courtesy of Oasis Family Media. Flash Gordon, the “space opera” science fiction hero, has appeared in many media. Beginning with an artistically-aware comic strip by master comic strip artist Alex Raymond, Flash has appeared in radio, television, and film series (including a Filmation animated production), a 1980 feature-length film, and multiple comic books. In the early 1970s, “Flash Gordon” was also a series of novels which bala...

Arts and Culture Why did the twentieth century produce so many—and such vivid—dystopias, works of fiction depicting not an ideal future but a future as terrible as could be imagined? After all, never had material progress been greater; never should man have felt himself freer of the anxieties that, with good reason, had beset him in the past. Famine had all but disappeared, except in civil wars or where regimes deliberately engineered it; and for the first time in history, the biblical span...

Letter to the editor: Time Machine on bowl at ARC enjoyed Bill Bachand I enjoyed the Time Machine of the Dec. 11 Augusta Chronicle highlighting the 1965 Champion Bowl at ARC Stadium between Linfield and St. John’s University of Minnesota. I attended St. John’s between 1971 and 1975 and played football during that time for legendary coach John Gagliardi. “Played” may be a bit of an exaggeration. I did get a little playing time, but Coach Gagliardi was known for suiting up as many as he c...

Fans of H.G. Wells cry foul over errors in commemorative coin The coin has irked some fans of Wells who quickly spotted what they described as flaws and botched imagery in the coin’s design, which was inspired by the author’s books. The Royal Mint via The New York Times. by Johnny Diaz (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The idea was to create a commemorative coin to celebrate the work of H.G. Wells, the British writer, historian and sociologist best known for the novels “The War of the Worlds” and “The...