Introduction They were once the apple of everyone’s eye, but in recent years PCs have been experiencing a steady decline in the face of a slew of new form factors and the imperious silver march of Apple’s iEverything. However, of late the initial spurts of a recovery have turned into a full-on rebirth fuelled by Microsoft’s new OS plans, the thirst for PC gaming, and a whole number of other
It’s the news many of us have been waiting for: the consumer version of the Oculus Rift until the first quarter of 2016, with pre-orders kicking off later this year. It’s a little later than we had anticipated, with many of us holding out hope that the virtual reality headset would be on our faces by Christmas – but it’s great to finally have a more concrete release date. Oculus
In honour of May the, er, 6th, someone has made a 16-bit The Force Awakens trailer for your viewing pleasure. The audio isn’t exactly SNES-level midi but the graphics should otherwise scratch all your retro-futurist pop culture itches. Somehow we’re already nostalgic for a film that hasn’t even been released yet. Well done everyone. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heVBYAbwUUg See the original Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer here
Many of the tech world’s top executives filled a 1,700-seat auditorium at Stanford University to commemorate David Goldberg, chief executive of SurveyMonkey. “We had 11 truly joyful years of the deepest love, happiest marriage, and truest partnership that I could imagine,” Sandberg posted on Facebook. On their way out, guests were offered Minnesota Vikings baseball caps as a reminder of the Minneapolis-born Goldberg’s lighthearted nature and love of sports, according
(Reuters) – Virtual reality technology company Oculus said it would start shipping the much-awaited consumer version of its Rift headset in the first quarter of 2016. Pre-orders for Rift will start later this year, Oculus, which Facebook Inc bought for $2 billion last year, said.
In a clash of corporate titans over naming rights in a fast-changing industry, Microsoft and its Skype phone service came out on the losing side of an EU court battle on Tuesday with Rupert Murdoch’s television business Sky. Judges at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg upheld a complaint that the British broadcaster lodged a decade ago with the EU trademark authority in which it said the
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd has secured one of its largest investments yet from a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early backer of Internet pioneers such as Facebook Inc, Etsy Inc and Dropbox. The Shenzhen-based company, a global leader in selling commercial and recreational drones, said on Wednesday that Palo Alto, California-based Accel Partners had agreed to invest
By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will conduct a comprehensive review this year of the role of web giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to decide whether it should regulate them more tightly, it said on Wednesday. The review, which had been expected, is part of a Digital Single Market Strategy unveiled by Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip on Wednesday. A wide-ranging policy paper, it lays out
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Wednesday pointed to high valuations in the stock market and said the central bank needs to keep close tabs on the non-bank lending sector.
Despite reports that Microsoft is interested in buying Salesforce.com, Oracle is still the most likely buyer, analysts said Wednesday.
