Oculus Rift review: great design, good VR games, promising future game catalog, but expensive, lack of motion controls is a big weakness
Oculus Rift review — For a long time, the hopes and dreams of many virtual reality fans could be summed up with two words: Oculus Rift.
Bug in iOS 9.3 crashes some iPhones and iPads when opening links in Safari and other apps, affects latest as well as older devices
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Japan's NTT Data to buy Dell's IT services business for $3.055B; Dell bought the unit, formerly known as Perot Systems, for $3.9B in 2009
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Bitcoin rival Ethereum climbed 1000% in 3 months, crossing $1B in value at times, and attracts interest from giants like JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and IBM
Ethereum, a Virtual Currency, Enables Transactions That Rival Bitcoin's — A new virtual gold rush is underway.
Clinton email scandal began with her desire to keep using an impossible-to-secure personal BlackBerry, transmitting classified docs over insecure communications
How Clinton's email scandal took root — Hillary Clinton's email problems began in her first days as secretary of state.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about his upbringing, legacy, expanding internet access, importance of product, and more in wide-ranging profile
Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of — universally known as CES, is a riot of technology.
Pandora cofounder Tim Westergren becomes the new CEO as part of management makeover
Pandora has appointed cofounder Tim Westergren its new CEO as part of a broader management makeover, the company announced today, — Stating that it “remains 100 percent committed to growth strategy,...
Behind the development of Oculus Rift, now shipping with a simplified interface and a refined setup process
The Inside Story of How Oculus Cracked the Impossible Design of VR — Palmer Luckey has never used an Oculus Rift. — That's what the founder of Oculus keeps telling himself …
European Commission launches public consultation on “neighboring rights” for publishers, a “Google tax” for snippets
“Google tax” on snippets under serious consideration by European Commission — The German Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda is leading the fight against a Google tax.
Transmission BitTorrent client released for Windows
The popular BitTorrent client Transmission, formerly only available for Mac OS X and Linux distributions, has been released as a binary for Windows officially. — The new release is not advertised ye...
While games dominate VR now, we will find many more uses for it, just as we did with PCs
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Tumblr brings back Replies, revamps Notes to encourage more conversations on its service
Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr this morning announced two changes to its service designed to encourage more conversations and increase engagement around posts and other content.
Vimeo for Roku now lets you buy on-demand content straight from your TV
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Indian online grocer BigBasket raises $150M, source says at a valuation of about $500M
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Facebook Messenger source code hints at an in-store purchase service, “secret conversations”, and calendar sync between users
Facebook Messenger Prepares In-Store Purchase Service — Tucked inside the code for Facebook's Messenger are clues for how the chat app plans …
Spotify CEO confirms the service now has 30M paying subscribers, up from 20M in June 2015
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June raises $22.5M Series A for its $1500 smart oven with built-in camera that identifies food and recommends cook settings
things are heating up in the home cooking tech space. http://techcrunch.com/...
Checkr raises $40M Series B led by YC Continuity Fund to expand its background screening platform; sources say valuation is between $250M and $300M
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US should focus on governments behind hack attacks because focusing on individuals sets a dangerous precedent, putting those hacking on behalf of the US at risk
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Inside the debate over whether incrementally releasing semi-autonomous driving features is safer than waiting for full automation
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Why one web developer left iOS: Progressive Web Apps are indistinguishable from native apps on Android, but not on iOS due to some WebKit limitations
Henrik Joreteg / Henrik Joreteg's Blog : Tweets: @jukkan , @mattcutts , @chadwallacehart and @brendandburns Tweets: Jukka Niiranen / @jukkan : Web apps gradually becoming first-class citizens on mobi...
Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary reveal their $30M fund is now valued at $250M with investments in 70+ startups including Airbnb, Uber, Shazam, Skype, and Spotify
Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes : Tweets: @benioff and @davemcclure Tweets: Marc Benioff / @benioff : Congratulations @guyoseary and @aplusk this is amazing http://www.forbes.com/... http://twitter....
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