Oculus Touch controller delayed to second half of 2016, Oculus Rift remains on schedule to ship in Q1 2016
Update on Oculus Touch Ship Date — On the path to perfecting Touch, we've decided that we need more time before release, and we'll now be shipping Touch in the second half of 2016.
AT&T to stop offering two-year phone contracts on January 8, moving to up-front purchase of new phones or AT&T Next financing plans
AT&T to ditch most two-year phone contracts on January 8th — AT&T's long affair with the two-year contract seems to be coming to a close, Engadget has learned.
Twitter is reversing its ban on political watchdog Politwoops
Four months after being banned by Twitter, Politwoops is coming back. — If you're not familiar with it, Politwoops is a kind of social media watchdog. It automatically monitors the Twitter feeds of...
Sources: BBC websites hit by DDoS attack, services disrupted for several hours
Web attack knocks BBC websites offline — All the BBC's websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack. — The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors …
Microsoft now notifies users if it believes their accounts were targeted by a state-sponsored hacker
Additional steps to help keep your personal information secure — We're committed to helping our users keep their personal information secure and private.
As Microsoft and Corel battle in patent lawsuits, EFF notes the absurdity of one Microsoft design patent, for a slider
Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFF's “Stupid Patent of the Month” award — The patent is ammo in a battle between MS Word and Corel's WordPerfect.
Valve says Steam's privacy breach on Christmas day affected 34K users, the service malfunction and outage were triggered by DDoS attack
Valve Apologizes For Steam's Christmas Malfunction, Says It Affected 34,000 Users — Valve has finally apologized for last week's Steam Christmas disaster …
FCC: Internet speeds tripled from 10 Mbps in March 2011 to an average of 31 Mbps in September 2014, but US still ranks only 25th out of 39 nations surveyed
U.S. says its Internet speeds triple in three-and-a-half years — U.S. Internet connection speeds have tripled over 3-1/2 years …
Former Microsoft employees say company failed to alert Hotmail users in 2011 that their accounts were hacked by Chinese authorities
Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack: former employees — Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities …
Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42
Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He w...
BlackBerry to keep operating in Pakistan after authorities drop demands to access users' messages
Blackberry to keep operating in Pakistan — Blackberry is no longer going to shut down its operations in Pakistan as it has resolved a row concerning its users' messages.
Uber announces it completed its one billionth trip on Christmas Eve in London
Uber just completed its billionth trip — By most measures, Uber has had a pretty good year: numerous political victories, new product launches, and scary amounts of cash raised. And the hits keep c...
Tor Project launching a bug bounty program with HackerOne, sponsored by Open Technology Fund
Major changes are underway in the Tor Project …
India Becomes Mobile-Phone Market With a Billion Subscribers
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In Silicon Valley Now, It's Almost Always Winner Takes All
The shutdown of ride-sharing startup … Michelle Quinn / SiliconBeat : Is Sidecar's demise an indication of the beginning of a shakeout in food delivery? Tweets: Ted Leonsis / @tedleonsis : Business is...
With FAA finally beginning to regulate drones, local ordinances on no-fly zones and privacy rules start clashing with federal guidelines
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Federal judge certifies two shareholder class actions accusing Facebook of hiding concerns about its growth forecasts prior to IPO
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Future of Bitcoin Foundation remains unclear as support and funds dwindle, ex-board members face criminal investigations
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Ukraine investigates malware attack on a power grid that may have caused a blackout in Ivano-Frankivsk region
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Sources: development for updated Twitter Mac app was outsourced; one source says to Black Pixel
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AT&T Snaps Up Assets, Talent From Carrier iQ, Phone Monitoring Startup Goes Offline
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Fidelity revises its value of stakes in IPO hopefuls Twilio, up by 31%, and Nutanix, down by 10%
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