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Oculus CEO latest tech exec on the end of an embarrassing, but this time more amusing hack
It seems no one is safe from suffering the ignominy of being hacked, not when you consider some of the biggest names in tech have been made to look quite foolish lately after having certain accounts compromised. The latest of these was Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. Iribe follows in the footsteps of a string of ...
Satya Nadella will tell you how to adapt to the future in his first book
CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella has been outspoken of late concerning the advancement of technology and how it will shape our lives in the near future, having just written a detailed piece for Slate around what he called the “beauty of machines and humans working in tandem.” He’s also about to write his own book, much of ...
Woman that beat Microsoft in court for $10k says: People must fight back against Windows 10 upgrade aggression
Much has been said about Microsoft’s sometimes deceptive ways in which it has been ‘encouraging’ people to upgrade to Windows 10. This has included upgrading as a recommended update and automatically installing itself on machines, and worse. Well, Microsoft’s aggression has backfired. The company just had to pay $10,000 to a Californian business woman after ...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai hacked by same group that embarrassed Mark Zuckerberg this month
A group of hackers – or perhaps security professionals with an underhanded marketing strategy – known as OurMine are at it again embarrassing the world’s most well known tech executives. Earlier this month the group hacked Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter, Inc. and Pinterest, Inc. accounts, as well as CEO of Spotify Ltd., Daniel Ek’s Twitter account. ...
Creator of upcoming futuristic ‘human-augmentation’ Amazon series talks to SiliconANGLE
“It was very overwhelming at first,” said Stephan Zlotescu, writer and director of the acclaimed True Skin, a 2012 short film based on human augmentation in a vastly more tech-immersed world. The film gained almost immediate acclaim and was quickly snapped-up by Amazon Studios to develop as a series following an earlier attempt by Warner Brothers ...
Opera goes toe-to-toe with Microsoft over what it feels is a sketchy Edge browser claim
Opera Software has taken umbrage with Microsoft over a recent claim by the Redmond company that its Edge browser is way more efficient in terms of laptop battery life than others browsers when surfing the web or streaming video. In what Microsoft called a Microsoft Edge Experiment its own browser came out smelling of roses ...
Google’s new symptom search might help prevent a wrong self-diagnosis of imminent death
We’ve all grappled with the reality of searching for a symptom on Google, perhaps a mere rash, or a pain located somewhere in the armpit, and after hours of reading coming to the conclusion that we are either terribly ill and will have precious few weeks to spend with our loved ones, or that we ...
In good faith: Can Microsoft be trusted with LinkedIn social data?
Following Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion one of Microsoft’s partners, harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft services, believes Microsoft and its partners stand to benefit considerably from “LinkedIn’s treasure trove of information”. But there are some obstacles Microsoft will have to overcome, harmon.ie asserts, and one of those ...
Using Microsoft’s Edge browser can save hours of laptop battery life
Microsoft wants to show what a profound difference a browser can make to the battery life of one’s laptop, notably how its own Edge browser is far less demanding than Google Chrome in terms of power consumption. In what Microsoft dubbed a Microsoft Edge Experiment, rival browsers including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera ...
Microsoft has just got into the blossoming marijuana business
Microsoft and marijuana, not two words we might usually associate, although Microsoft founder Bill Gates is said to have smoked weed in college and been open about his support for the legalization of the plant in his own state. Microsoft’s relationship with cannabis just got much more real after a partnership was formed between the company ...