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The brain hacks that make climbing in VR feel real

@ 2015/12/20 read/post comments(0)

When I talk to friends and family about VR, their most pressing questions are usually about immersion. Once they've finished asking about the possibility of vomiting, the conversation turns to: "And how real does it feel?" "Do you believe you're… Go To Full Article

The thing you'd worry about happening in an Airbnb happened

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Airbnb has been slapped with a lawsuit by a woman who alleges that the apartment that she rented was equipped with a spy camera. Yvonne Schumacher says that her and her partner spotted a light peeping from behind a bookshelf… Go To Full Article

Samsung Pro 950 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD Review @ Hardware Asylum

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In this review I looked at the new Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD drive. The drive is 256GB and is one of the first drives to combine M.2 and NVMe together on the same package. Go To Full Article

'League of Legends' is now fully owned by China's Tencent

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After buying most of the studio behind League of Legends in 2011, Tencent now owns it outright. California studio Riot Games told employees that the Chinese internet giant behind WeChat had purchased the remaining equity in the company. There was… Go To Full Article

Sony's new Alpha A68 camera is coming to the US next April

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Sony introduced the Alpha A68 last month, but that announcement was geared toward the UK market. Today, however, the electronics company announced that its new DSLR-esque camera will be coming to the US next April, with pre-orders expected to open… Go To Full Article

Qualcomm Snapdragon 618 and 620 SoCs get renamed to Snapdragon 650 and 652

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Qualcomm has decided to rename its recently unveiled Snapdragon 618 and Snapdragon 620 chipsets to Snapdragon 650 and Snapdragon 652. Qualcomm believes the renaming will help these two chipsets to be better differentiated from the rest of the new Snapdragon… Go To Full Article

Apple names Jeff Williams as its first COO since Tim Cook

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Apple has just named its first Chief Operating Officer since Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Longtime Apple veteran Jeff Williams (who joined the company in 1998) is now COO, reporting directly to Cook. Additionally, senior VP of… Go To Full Article

China launches satellite to unlock dark matter's secrets

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Dark matter is that pesky, hidden material that keeps foiling scientists' efforts to come up with a grand unified theory of physics. China's space agency has set about to find it with the launch of DAMPE, the Dark Matter Particle… Go To Full Article

'Xbox Fitness' no longer requires the Kinect

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The Kinect, once such an integral part of Microsoft's Xbox One story, just lost a big toehold. You no longer need the depth sensor for Xbox Fitness, a key non-gaming app. The device brings gamification to workouts and forces you… Go To Full Article

BIOSTAR unveils value-oriented GeForce GTX 750 Ti OC graphics card

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BIOSTAR announced yet another new GeForce graphics card, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti OC. The new card offers a great combination of performance and value to gamers. Based on the NVIDIA Maxwell architecture, the card comes with 640 CUDA cores… Go To Full Article

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