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Oculus has delayed its Touch virtual reality controller

What separates the Oculus Rift from budget virtual reality headsets like the Gear VR or Google Cardboard is that it will allow users to have a virtual reality experience that's...

India now has more than a billion smartphone users

As China's mobile market continues to mature and saturate, all eyes are turning to India as the country's mobile market continues to boom. Earlier this week, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of...

After months of running, The Pirate Bay is right back where it started

The Pirate Bay has spent most of the year hopping from domain to domain in order to avoid being taken down by law enforcement, but a series of domain seizures...

Bitcoin was this year’s best-performing currency

Bitcoin has come a long way over the years, and it cam especially far this year. Despite being the worst-performing currency of the year in 2014, the digital currency managed...

iOS users might be able to make payments through iMessage soon

If you any doubts that Apple is taking mobile payments seriously, then maybe this recently-filed patent will alleviate them. We've known that the company wanted to allow iOS users to...

Twitter will allow Politwoops to archive the tweets of politicians again

For those of you who aren't familiar, Politwoops is a website that allows people to see all the stupid crap that politicians have said on Twitter, even if those tweets were...

The Tor Project is about to launch its own bug bounty program

For the average Internet users, Tor is easily the most-effective tool for maintaining anonymity and bypassing government censorship, and this is due in large part to the fact that the...

Snapdragon-powered drones will be smarter and more affordable

Commercial and consumer drones are exploding in popularity right now, and Qualcomm wants a piece of the action. Naturally, the company doesn't want to sell its own drones, it wants...

Uber wants to help users plan their next long-distance trip

Uber proved long ago that it's more than just a ride-sharing company. It's now more of a crowd-sourced transportation platform that transports both goods and people in a variety of ways, but...

Samsung plans to show off a smart belt and smart ring at CES 2016

Most people are reluctant just to purchase a smartwatch, let alone other kinds of wearable gadgets, but that isn't stopping Samsung from popping out even more niche wearables with questionable usefulness. To be fair,...

China’s air quality problem is good business for IBM and Microsoft

IBM and Microsoft are nothing if not entrepreneurial, and much of their success is owed to their ability to see everything as a business opportunity. For example, the air pollution in China has become a serious health problem for...

Microsoft now alerts users to government-sponsored cyber attacks

Ever since Google started notifying its users when they were targeted by government-sponsored cyber attacks back in 2012, many companies in the technology industry have followed suit, especially after the...