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Perfect fit: Another chance to see Mr. Robot in virtual reality
“Not gonna lie, I thought it was awesome being able to look around his apartment while he sat there dialoguing. I’ve seen enough of the 360 VR experience to not be automatically wowed by it, but having it tied in with a show I knew and loved was pretty cool.” The above comment was taken ...
A glimmer of hope for Pokémon Go fans using Windows Phone
The Pokémon Go game, turned global phenomenon, just keeps picking up speed, mesmerizing fans in now more than 30 countries, sending madding crowds this way and that in search of cutified monsters. Some fans aren’t happy though, and those people are the owners of a Windows Phone. That could all change soon, according Microsoft Portugal. ...
Microsoft warned for Windows 10 excessive user data collection: Given 3 months to shape up
Microsoft is under the gun in France, after the company was ordered by the French data protection authority to curtail its “excessive” collection of user data on the Windows 10 operating system, and at the same time stop tracking user browsing activity in order to serve targeted ads. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés ...
Twitter’s permanent ban of internet “supervillain” Milo Yiannopoulos beckons a fiery stand-off in the free speech debate
He may have been called “one of the rising stars of libertarian and conservative media” but the Breitbart blogger, Milo Yiannopoulos, is now verily persona non grata on Twitter Inc. The British journalist, who tweeted as @Nero, received a permanent ban from Twitter for continual abuse of Leslie Jones relating to her role in the ...
Microsoft and Boeing team-up to advance digital aviation
Microsoft have teamed-up with The Boeing Company in a move set to bring Boeing’s digital solutions to the Azure Cloud Platform, greatly improving the aviation applications that the aerospace behemoth has already built for more than 300 airlines with its subsidiaries AerData B.V. and Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.. The collaboration aims to help airlines to become more intelligence ...
Warrant denied: Historic victory for digital privacy in Microsoft vs. US government case
In an ongoing case in which the U.S. government has been trying to force Microsoft to allow it access to data stored on its servers in Dublin, Ireland, Redmond just won a landmark appeal. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the Stored Communications Act cannot be used by U.S. investigators ...
Pokémon Go! and Pokémon Stay! How the game has sparked infuriation while businesses are licking their lips
Pokémon Go, the game that’s shocked the world seems to have divided the people and critics alike. On the one side of the schism, the majority perhaps, we hear about a wonderful piece of entertaining technology that gets people out of the house, off the couch, and at the same time introduces them to them ...
Google moves closer to building its futurist fantasy-campus following a massive property deal with LinkedIn
Two tech behemoths of Silicon Valley, Google and LinkedIn Corp., in spite of past rivalry over land in the area have just come to an agreement in which the companies will hand over property to the other. The land swap consists of 1 million square feet of sites already developed – including LinkedIn’s present headquarters ...
Is Mr. Robot really serious about the issues it exposes?
“Do you think you’re free? You’re not free. Your lives are not your own.” The latter was put to us as part of a Facebook Live stream, apparently coordinated by the hacker group, fsociety, for USA Network’s award-winning series Mr. Robot. We are reminded in the clip that the function of consumerism under capitalism is ...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella likes Pokémon Go, but has much bigger ideas for augmented reality
Following the record-breaking success of the augmented reality gaming app, Pokémon Go, in an interview Microsoft’s forward-thinking CEO Satya Nadella stated he thought it was “fantastic” such apps were being built, but he also believes such a thing will translate into more diverse interests in augmented reality, specifically with Microsoft’s own AR headset HoloLens. Pokémon Go’s success, however, ...