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ID@XBox: Trying out the Xbox game demos at #GDC16
Attendees to the 2016 Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco were privy to tests and sneak previews of several upcoming games. Microsoft happened to have a nice large section set up for its Xbox One, where players could try out a variety of games coming in the next few months. All the games I ...
Ubisoft’s “Eagle Flight” soars at #GDC
I no longer need to wonder what it feels like to be a bird of prey in flight. For I have experienced it firsthand. Or at least as firsthand as virtual reality can currently allow. Ubisoft has a hangout spot at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where attendees can try out their upcoming ...
Running the VR gauntlet at #GDC: Hands on virtual reality reviews
Gamers and developers agree: virtual reality (VR) is the next step in immersive gaming. Until the day we get holo-chambers with infinite space for movement, it’s the best we’re going to get as well. But at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this week, several companies and startups are demonstrating their virtual reality ...
Hands on: Virtual reality with Intel RealSense at #GDC 2016
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco is just picking up, and already it’s clear that virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will be big focuses of the show. So one would be remiss to visit the conference and not try out any of the demonstrations, such as the demo from the Intel ...
Painful irony: DDos protection provider suffers data breach
It would be a painful irony for a company specializing in cyber security to get hacked. While that may be the case for Staminus Communications, it focuses on providing protection against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, rather than the hack that targeted it, so now its sensitive data has been leaked. The Staminus network, ...
Rosen Hotels hack found over a year later
Nothing makes a good hotel stay turn sour than unexpected charges. While that annoying “cleaning fee” the hotel stacked on your bill because they insisted someone in the room was smoking even though you know for a fact no one did may be a pain to deal with (a hypothetical example that may or may ...
What the FCC’s new web privacy proposal means for you
It’s no stretch to say that online privacy is important to everyone, no matter what they use the Internet for. Yet at the same time, it’s one of the hardest places to maintain a high level of privacy, even with every precaution. However, federal regulators have proposed a new set of privacy rules for Internet ...
Data Breach Report highlights the real security threats with knowledge from experience
Following its Data Breach Investigations Report earlier this month, Verizon Enterprise has released the Data Breach Digest, detailing and dissecting data breach cases for our education. In 2015 alone, Verizon investigated more than 500 cases pertaining to cyber security, sorted them by scenario, and has presented them along with tips for prevention, detection, and protection. ...
Financial sector most at risk for internal breaches, says new security report
As we enjoy these early days of March, it’s important to look back and see what we can learn from the past month. In some cases, learn just how many data breaches companies have encountered and had to deal with in that month alone. The California Department of Justice has just released the California Data ...
Oracle accelerates analytics applications with new API and developer kit
Oracle is after developers with a new tool, unveiled today. The company just released a free and open API and developer kit, made for its Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX) in SPARC processors, allowing for fast and high performance data analytics and new processing capabilities. This new 32-core, 256 thread SPARC M7 processor, used along with ...