Oculus demos standalone, midrange headset named Santa Cruz; prototype features four cameras to detect the real-world environment so you can walk around in VR
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Spotify and Apple Music add support for user-uploaded remixes after deal with music rights management firm Dubset
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New Oculus firmware bolsters frame rates, enables VR on lower-spec PCs and laptops; $499 Rift-ready Cyberpower machine announced
Oculus Connect 3 roundup: Touch, Santa Cruz prototype, Oculus-ready laptops, 400+ mobile VR apps, and more
This year's Connect is the third time we've brought the VR developer community together, and it's our largest event yet. There are nearly 3,000 people here today …
Internet of things devices, which are often impossible to patch, will remain unsecure unless government steps in to regulate the industry
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Oculus demos augmented social VR with facial expressions, immersion in real-world scenes, chess and card playing, taking a phone call and a selfie
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Oculus Touch hands-on: intuitive gestures, no discernable lag while performing actions like grabbing or shooting, room-scale VR requires an add-on
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US Consumer Product Safety Commission opens investigation into Galaxy Note7 that forced evacuation of flight
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A rundown of VR experiences that stood out at Oculus' event, including several FPS games and an illustration program
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For room-scale VR tracking, you'll need to add a third sensor to Oculus Touch for $79
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Verizon reportedly pushing for $1B price cut on pending $4.8B Yahoo deal after recent report of 2014 hack
Verizon may not have bailed out of its deal to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, but amid a growing case of bad news at the search engine company, the telecommunications giant …
Duolingo launches iPhone-only AI chatbot to help users learn German, French, and Spanish, with more languages coming soon
Today's chatbots, for the most part, aren't all that useful, but what if you could use them to learn a new language? When it comes to learning languages …
Oculus building VR web browser codenamed Carmel, announces web VR framework React VR
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Oculus announces new $49 in-ear headphones for the Rift, which will ship in December
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Report: Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, is planning an IPO for March 2017 that could value the company at $25B+
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap — the now-parent company of Snapchat — is working on an initial public offering for as early as March that could value the company at $25 billion or high...
Full panel of US Court of Appeals reinstates $120M verdict Apple won against Samsung in a patent case
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Comcast's 1TB data caps start to roll out nationwide
Go over that amount and you could face overage charges. Unlimited data costs $50 extra. — Comcast's data restrictions are going from testing to reality for most of its customers. Its 'XFINITY Tera...
FCC to vote Oct. 27 on broadband privacy rules, requiring users to opt in on sharing sensitive data like location, children's information, and browsing history
Pay-for-privacy plans won't be banned, but ISPs face new opt-in requirements. — The Federal Communications Commission plans …
Facebook doubles its $250M investment in VR content, announces $10M fund for education
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LG's V20 flagship phone available in US on October 28 for $830 on AT&T preorders start October 7
Following an announcement from T-Mobile earlier today, AT&T has now confirmed that preorders for LG's new V20 flagship smartphone will kick off tomorrow Oct. 7 ahead of a launch on Oct. 28.
Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer arrested in Texas on charges including pimping; two controlling shareholders, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, also face charges
Carl Ferrer, the chief executive of advertising website Backpage.com, was arrested on Thursday on criminal charges including pimping …
AT&T and Amazon sign multi-year deal for use of AWS on AT&T's network, with a focus on IoT, security, and more
The companies will focus on enterprise hybrid cloud deployments and networking, Internet of things, security and integration. — AT&T and Amazon Web Services have forged …
Inside Rocket Internet, an incubator that's much better at starting new companies than running them, and whose stock price has fallen 53% since its IPO in 2014
Founder Oliver Samwer says his company is in great shape. But an examination of Rocket's operations reveals an incubator that's … Tweets: @satariano and @business Tweets: Adam Satariano / @satariano ...
Shares of Coupa Software surged 85% in debut, closed at $33, valuing company at $1.6B
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Sources: Facebook in talks with US government and wireless carriers to launch Free Basics-like service in the US, for low-income and rural Americans
Brian Fung / Washington Post :
Sources: BitTorrent fires its co-CEOs and an unknown number of staffers, is closing its Los Angeles production studio and Now streaming service
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was absent from the Connect 3 keynote, as other top executives appeared on stage
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
BMW, Toyota, and insurance provider Allianz invest undisclosed amount in self-driving tech startup Nauto and will share safety data with each other
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