Consumer-ready Oculus Rift teardown: two OLED displays with a combined resolution of 2160x1200 mounted to adjustable lenses, 90 FPS refresh rate
Oculus Rift CV1 Teardown — We've had two prerelease versions on our teardown table, so we're excited to see what tweaks this Rift has in store.
FBI agrees to help prosecutors unlock iPhone 6 and iPod in Arkansas homicide case
FBI agrees to help Arkansas prosecutors open iPhone after hack of San Bernardino device — Apple appears to have gained a momentary reprieve in the tech industry's sparring with the government over e...
iPhone SE teardown reveals mix of 5s, 6, and 6s parts, including processor, memory, NFC chip, axis sensor, modem, Audio ICs, few new innovative components
Apple iPhone SE Teardown — The long-rumored, cost-friendly iPhone SE was finally announced on March 21st of this year.
Amazon expands Dash Button line-up, top sellers to date include Tide, Bounty, Cottonelle
Amazon this morning announced an expansion of its Dash Buttons product line - those Wi-Fi connected, push-button devicesthat let you buy products from its site with just a press.
1,418 remotely exploitable flaws found in CareFusion's automated medical supply system, warns ICS-CERT; no patch coming as devices are on “end-of-life software”
1,418 remotely exploitable flaws found in automated medical supply system — Security researchers found 1,418 …
Uber rolling out in-app customer service support globally, in place of its email method
Checking Your Uber Rating Or Getting Your Purse Back Just Got Much Easier — After years of forcing customers to use email to complain about anything, Uber is now committing to more updated technolog...
Sources: Nest generated about $340M in sales last year, below Google's expectations, is facing scrutiny as $500M annual operating budget set to expire this year
With $340 million in revenue, Nest is underperforming, and its future at Google is at risk — Nest generated about $340 million …
Roadmap shown in Build presentation reveals Microsoft is building ad blocker into next version of Edge browser
Microsoft plans to build ad blocker into its Microsoft Edge browser — Who needs extensions like AdBlock Plus? In a session for Web developers today, Microsoft revealed …
CloudFlare: 94 percent of the Tor traffic we see is “per se malicious”
Legitimate users suffer as Tor becomes favored tool of spammers and fraudsters. — More than ever, websites are blocking users of the anonymizing Tor network or degrading the services they receive.
Amazon Updates Its Policies To Ban USB Type-C Cables That Are Not Fully Spec Compliant
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Microsoft releases HoloLens emulator for developers to build and test AR apps
Microsoft launches HoloLens emulator so developers can test holographic apps, no headset required — As promised, Microsoft today started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits.
Apple signs multiyear deal with MLB to provide every team with iPads in dugouts, giving coaches access to strategy apps, player data
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Drone OS startup Airware raises $30M round led by Next World Capital, adds Cisco's John Chambers to board
Drone Startup Airware Raises $30 Million, Adds Cisco's John Chambers To Board — Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration projected in a report that 7 million drones will be sold annually in th...
Microsoft integrates Xamarin into Visual Studio for free, will open source Xamarin runtime
Microsoft today announced that Xamarin is now available for free for every Visual Studio user. This includes all editions of Visual Studio, including the free Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio P...
Quora acquires Parlio, Wael Ghonim's Q&A and conversation site, in first acquisition
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Skype to let you book trips, shop, more by chatting with third-party chatbots, with conversations brokered by Cortana
Your regular host Adam Lashinsky is out this week. Natacha Brown / Garage & Updates : Skype Bots preview comes to consumers and developers Roger Fingas / AppleInsider : Microsoft adds info-hunting ‘Bo...
Google tackles simple 360 content embeds with VR View, introduces Cardboard SDK for iOS
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Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber, and others raise $100M for Expa Labs, a San Francisco-based incubator where startups receive $500K in backing
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Sources: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong eyes deal for Verizon to buy Yahoo in plan to build an ad empire that competes with Facebook and Google
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Microsoft teams with ConsenSys to build Ethereum-based distributed apps in Visual Studio
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Waze rival INRIX gets revamped Android and iOS apps with turn-by-turn navigation, traffic predictions, more
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The Internet Association, members including Apple, Google, and Facebook, endorses Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite more than 250 tech firms having opposed it
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