Intro 2015 is the year of Virtual Reality. Mobile-compatible headsets such as Samsung’s Galaxy Gear VR, Archos VR Glasses and Google Cardboard are available right now, while dedicated headsets such as HTC’s Vive and, hopefully, Oculus Rift are set to appear before the end of the year. These are all the virtual reality headsets that you need to know about, in order of excellence, as selected by our resident expert
Update: The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter raised a whopping $6,333,295 (about £4,059,025, AU$8,587,639) – to be exact – nearly another million in its final hours just before the weekend. The extra push helped solidify the PS4- and PC-bound revival of the Dreamcast cult-classic adventure game. Across digital and physical for both PS4 and PC (and it’s several special editions), 66,282 copes of the game were paid for through the Kickstarter campaign
49.7 percent of anything may sound like a lot, but it’s a historical low for spam email levels – it’s the lowest share recorded by Symantec since September 2003, so progress is being made. Back then, Tony Blair was the UK PM and Apple was about to release Mac OS X Panther. The world was still waiting for the final Matrix film and bopping along to the Black Eyed Peas’
July 19 (Infostrada Sports) – Latest leaderboard in the third round from the British Open at the par-72 course on Sunday in St Andrews holesplayed rounds -10 Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) 12 67 72 Jordan Spieth (U.S.) 13 67 72 Dustin Johnson (U.S.) 4 65 69 Danny Willett (Britain) 5 66 69 -9 Steven Bowditch (Australia) 11 70 69 Anirban Lahiri (India) 11 69 70 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 15 72
Jordan Spieth on Sunday brought closer to reality an historic third straight major title as he moved into the joint lead on ten under at the Open Championship with overnight leader Dustin Johnson and South African Charl Schwartzel. Johnson had been clinging to his one shot lead on ten under during the third round of the tournament before Spieth reeled off six birdies in 12 holes to move level and
By Martyn Herman ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Jordan Spieth roared up the British Open leaderboard in ominous fashion with a burst of birdies helping the American catch leader Dustin Johnson on Sunday. Apart from a bogey five at the ninth, Spieth was unstoppable while Johnson opened with four consecutive pars. Spieth responded to that setback with three consecutive birdies at the 10th, 11th and 12th to move into a
By Gernot Heller and Doina Chiacu TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s administration sent a nuclear agreement with Tehran to Congress on Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. lawmakers to reject a deal he said would only feed an “Iranian terror machine”. In a first concrete sign of European determination to quickly rebuild economic and political ties with Iran after a 12-year standoff, German Economy Minister Sigmar
Greek banks expect long queues but no major problems when they reopen on Monday for the first time in three weeks, although withdrawals will still be limited and capital controls will remain, senior banking officials said on Sunday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is trying to turn a corner after bailout terms he reluctantly accepted prompted a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party. The government on Saturday issued a decree ordering
A British man who was last year sentenced by a U.S. court to 12-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to running a website that supported the Taliban, has been released, his family said on Sunday. Babar Ahmad’s sentence included 10 years he had already served. U.S. prosecutors had said his crimes included recruiting fighters for the Taliban and al Qaeda in the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
Syria’s army said on Sunday it had stepped up air strikes and retaken villages in a new offensive on Islamist insurgents in areas close to President Bashar al Assad’s ancestral homeland in the northeastern coastal province of Latakia. Latakia province – home to Syria’s biggest port and a stronghold of Assad’s Alawite sect – has been a key battleground of the conflict, which is now in its fifth year. Sunni
