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Behind the creation of Epic's Bullet Train, a first-person shooter built for Oculus Touch — Inside Epic's incredible first attempt at real VR gaming — Walking through the darkened hallways of Epic Games, I know three things about the secret project I'm about to see.
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eWeek, Polygon, Engadget, IGN and Tech Times
| Ben Kuchera / Polygon: |
Oculus VP says the company isn't close to supporting Xbox One, but there have been talks — Don't expect to see the Oculus Rift on Xbox One anytime soon — Oculus has been pretty cozy with Microsoft lately. The companies announced that the retail Oculus Rift will ship with an Xbox One controller in the box.
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Nexus 6P training deck for retail employees leaks, reveals 3450mAh battery, Gorilla Glass 4, and confirms other previously leaked specs — Nexus 6P Presentation Leak Includes More Images, Confirms Metal Body, Gorilla Glass 4, And 3450mAh Battery — The leaks continue to flow out of Mountain View.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
How tech entrepreneurs are fighting to take back a porn industry disrupted by piracy and free tube sites — Meet The Tech Entrepreneurs Trying To Take Back The Porn Industry — It's a cloudless, mid-January day in Los Angeles, and I'm in a cramped, dimly lit hotel conference room off … | Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Toshiba updates Chromebook 2 with 5th generation Core i3 and Celeron processor options, backlit keyboard — Toshiba Refreshes The Chromebook 2 With Broadwell — Toshiba announced today that it has refreshed their Chromebook 2 model. The new version will be available with 5th generation Core i3 or Celeron processors.
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| Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed: |
A look at the history of sketchy online marketing schemes run by the founders of $1B JustFab — JustFab: The Billion Dollar Startup With A Dark Past — After more than a decade spent running sketchy online marketing schemes, JustFab's founders have made it big in Silicon Valley.| Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers connect hacking activity with Chinese military staffer, providing glimpse inside Beijing's state-controlled cyberespionage operations — Cyber Sleuths Track Hacker to China's Military — The story of a Chinese military staffer's alleged involvement in hacking provides …
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Fortune, CNNMoney, ThreatConnect, The Register and Fortune
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business: |
Netflix plans to serve as its own studio for more shows, strengthening its control over distribution rights — Netflix to Make More Shows of Its Own — Streaming service wants to produce and own more programs — Shift would help company offer same lineup of shows worldwide
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Forbes, FierceOnlineVideo News, The Verge and Business Insider
| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with top execs in Silicon Valley this weekend — Big Tech Rolls Out Red Carpet for Indian Prime Minister, Lobbies Behind Closed Doors — Tech adores him. He poses for photos with (then-) Twitter CEOs, and can shoot selfies on Twitter over the firewall in China.
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Tweets: @narendramodi, @scepticgeek and @narendramodi
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Samsung offering up to $120 in rebates towards your monthly installment plan with purchase of a new Galaxy device — Samsung will pay you up to $120 for buying a Galaxy S6, Note 5 on an installment plan — Despite making some of its very best smartphones this year, Samsung has faced …
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Android Authority, Business Insider, Android and Me, Droid Life, TmoNews and PhoneDog.com. Tweets: @rdr0b11
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The Atavist abandons native apps to focus on web, saying apps have poor discovery, slow approval, tech limitations, smaller readership — Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps — When we concocted the ideas that would become Atavist and The Atavist Magazine, in 2010, we did so amidst a frenzy … | Isaac Salier-Hellendag / Facebook: |
Facebook rolls out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting after testing with small group last month — Updates for Facebook Notes — We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable. Notes are now an even better …
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