Google Slides gets AirPlay, Chromecast support for streaming presentations

Google is giving offices, particularly smaller companies and startups, a cheaper option to showing presentations. The Google Slides app now supports Chromecast and AirPlay, which means you can stream your presentations to a TV that has Apple TV or Chromecast attached to it. The Slides app also turns your device into a remote control so you can see your notes without it showing up on the TV and there are slide timers to help keep your presentation moving.

Source: ZDNet

Sony introduces professional-grade features to the new Cyber-shot RX series

Sony is bringing its advanced technology to its Cyber-shot line of cameras with the compact RX100 IV and the high-zoom RX10 II. These two new models come with the first 1.0 type stacked Exmor RS CMOS sensor with advanced signal processing and an attached DRAM memory chip, which allow for five times faster readout of image data. These shooters also support 40x super slow motion video recording of up to 960 frames per second as well as 4K movie capture. And they also feature an ultra-fast Anti-Distortion shutter with a maximum speed of 1/32000 second. For the 4K video recording, the RX10 II can shoot 4K video up to 29 minutes, while the RX100 IV can shoot 4K clips up to about five minutes at a time.

The RX100 IV maintains the pocket-friendly size of the RX100 family and it comes with a ZEISS Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm F1.8-F2.8 lens. The RX100IV also keeps the retractable EVF with ZEISS T8 coating. Meanwhile, the RX10 II has the same body design as the original RX10 and comes with ZEISS Vario-Sonnar T* 24-200mm F2.8 lens. They both come with a new high-contrast XGA OLED Tru-Finder display. The RX100 IV retails for $1,199.99, while the RX10 II goes for $1,599.99 and they’ll be available in July. Pre-sales for both cameras will start on June 17^th.

Pompeii in the Shadow of the Volcano exhibit opens at the ROM on June 13

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) hosted a media preview of the upcoming exhibit titled Pompeii: In the Shadow of the Volcano, which features over 200 artifacts dating back over 2,000 years when the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which led to destruction on a massive scale and the deaths of over 16,000 people.

The ROM has prepared for the opening of the exhibit by projecting a simulation of the volcano on to the facade of the ROM Crystal. The volcano projection will erupt on Friday evening.

As part of the media preview, Tenor Francesco Pellegrino opened the proceedings with a reading and a song. Tited Fronna, the above song an improvised lament sung a capella, evolved from traditional funeral laments in the countryside.

The exhibit shows various artifacts and even molds of people and animals whose forms were preserved through time as well as examples of art, design and day-to-day Pompeii life. Pompeii will run between June 13 2015, to Jan 16, 2016 before moving to  the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

HTC One M9 gets glammed up with HTC Ink

HTC just revealed a super exclusive and limited edition of the HTC One M9 called the HTC Ink which was created in collaboration with supermodel Jourdan Dunn. HTC says, "HTC One M9 INK is the first of its kind and delivers a body art-inspired one off illustration which is engraved onto the back of the phone."

HTC INK is a Limited Edition campaign which sees bespoke celebrity body art designs engraved onto exclusive runs of HTC’s family of premium HTC One handsets. The HTC Ink devices are not available for sale in Canada.