Minecraft gets Oculus Rift support as part of an update to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta
Minecraft has landed on the Oculus Rift as part of a free update to the Windows 10 Edition beta. Anyone who owns the PC or Mac version of Minecraft is automatically granted access …
Samsung Galaxy Note7 review: the best big phone on the market though expensive and loaded with bloatware
There is no greater evidence of The Future of Computing than the big-screened smartphone. Big phones have become the de facto personal computers for many people …
Google's bare-bones FaceTime competitor Duo launches for iOS and Android, won't connect with other communication apps from Google like Hangouts, upcoming Allo
Can Google spring back from its social failures with a bare-bones video-calling app that unites iOS and Android users?
Google is discontinuing Google+ Hangouts On Air on September 12, pushes users to YouTube Live
Google today quietly announced that Google+ Hangouts On Air will no longer be available on September 12. Four weeks from now, Google users will be asked to use YouTube Live instead.
Source: Snapchat to buy recommendation app Vurb for around $110M plus retention payouts totaling nearly as much
Snapchat is tiptoeing into search. — The company is acquiring recommendation app Vurb for around $110 million plus additional team retention payouts totaling nearly as much …
Oculus Rift to ship in Europe and Canada September 20 and is now available for pre-order there
Now that Oculus has caught up with the pre-order backlog for its VR headset, the Facebook-owned company has decided it's time to make the Rift available in more places.
Linux bug lets attackers remotely hijack unencrypted internet traffic on phones running Android 4.4 or later
Off-path attack means malicious hackers can be located anywhere on the Internet. — An estimated 80 percent of Android phones contain a recently discovered vulnerability …
India's WhatsApp rival Hike raises $175M led by Tencent at a $1.4B valuation
India has a new tech unicorn. Hike, a four-year-old messaging app, today announced that it has closed $175 million in funding led by new investors Chinese internet giant Tencent and manufacturing fir...
Salesforce says it has acquired data analytics startup BeyondCore
Salesforce just bought another data analytics startup called BeyondCore, adding to its buying spree this year. — The announcement was made through BeyondCore's blog post and confirmed by Salesforce ...
Microsoft consolidates its separate two-factor authentication apps into one new app, Microsoft Authenticator, for Android and iOS
As promised, Microsoft has updated and renamed its previous account verification app for Android and iOS, Azure Authenticator, to Microsoft Authenticator.
Data management startup Rubrik, founded by ex-Google, Facebook, and Oracle engineers, raises $61M round led by Khosla Ventures, brings total raised to $112M+
Managing and archiving corporate data may not be the most glamorous of jobs, but it's an important one.
Twitter debuts Promoted #Stickers for brands, starting with Pepsi; clicking on a Promoted Sticker takes you to tweets containing the same sticker
Tech Roundup PepsiCo / PR Newswire : PepsiCo Announced As Twitter Launch Partner for Promoted #Stickers English Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Twitter teams with brands to monetize its stickers feature Adn...
EU considers extending rules governing telecoms to apps like Skype and WhatsApp, mandating weakened encryption, limiting the data apps can collect about users
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Spotify launches a new Kids category with a focus on learning activities, language development
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Postmates has failed to make Uber-for-anything cheap, passes the expense to customers in fees that often don't match the “estimate”
In late June, Shawn Cook had a cold and needed some cough medicine. The mobile game developer turned to on-demand delivery startup Postmates … Tweets: @nikiscevak , @mikeisaac , @juliacarriew and @ca...
Braintree founder Bryan Johnson and USC researcher team up on Kernal, a startup building a chip implanted in brains to help people with neurological damage
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LinkedIn files suit against 100 anonymous data scrapers, invoking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
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Bumble dating app debuts a $10/month subscription that gives users a pre-populated queue of people who have already liked them, and two more premium features
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