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Oculus Rift review: great design, good VR games, promising future game catalog, but expensive, lack of motion controls is a big weakness — Oculus Rift review — For a long time, the hopes and dreams of many virtual reality fans could be summed up with two words: Oculus Rift.| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Oculus Rift review: first generation hardware is pricey, awkward, isolating, and occasionally brilliant — Oculus Rift Review: VR's Rising Star Isn't Ready for the Mainstream — The first totally immersive home virtual reality rig is a pricey, awkward, isolating—and occasionally brilliant—glimpse of the future of computing
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Bitcoin rival Ethereum climbed 1000% in 3 months, crossing $1B in value at times, and attracts interest from giants like JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and IBM — Ethereum, a Virtual Currency, Enables Transactions That Rival Bitcoin's — A new virtual gold rush is underway.
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| Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post: |
Clinton email scandal began with her desire to keep using an impossible-to-secure personal BlackBerry, transmitting classified docs over insecure communications — How Clinton's email scandal took root — Hillary Clinton's email problems began in her first days as secretary of state.
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| Grace Huang / Bloomberg Business: |
Japan's NTT Data to buy Dell's IT services business for $3.055B; Dell bought the unit, formerly known as Perot Systems, for $3.9B in 2009 — Japan's NTT to Buy Dell Systems for $3.055 Billion — Deal is largest by NTT Data Corp., which is expanding overseas — NTT doesn't give details of when it will acquire Dell units
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pandora cofounder Tim Westergren becomes the new CEO as part of management makeover — Pandora has appointed cofounder Tim Westergren its new CEO as part of a broader management makeover, the company announced today, — Stating that it “remains 100 percent committed to growth strategy,” …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sony's more powerful PlayStation 4 supporting ultra-high-definition graphics to be announced before planned October VR headset launch — Sony Plans New PlayStation for Graphics-Heavy Games — New console would be announced before virtual-reality headset
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The Next Web, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, DualShockers, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Forbes, VG247, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon and Tech Insider. Tweets: @fubarduck
| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about his upbringing, legacy, expanding internet access, importance of product, and more in wide-ranging profile — Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of — universally known as CES, is a riot of technology.
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9to5Google, SiliconBeat, Phandroid, Engadget and PhoneArena
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Periscope Has Been Used for 200 Million Broadcasts, 100 Million Since January Alone — Twitter-owned social live streaming service Periscope celebrated its first birthday Monday by revealing a major usage milestone: Periscope has been used for more that 200 million broadcasts since its launch in March 2015.
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Medium, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Engadget, VentureBeat, Re/code and Tubefilter. See also Mediagazer
| Tim Stenovec / Tech Insider: |
The chief product officer of Sonos, Marc Whitten, is leaving the company amid restructuring — The chief product officer of Sonos is leaving the company — Marc Whitten, the chief product officer of Sonos, will be leaving the company, a spokesperson told Tech Insider.| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Facebook Messenger source code hints at an in-store purchase service, “secret conversations”, and calendar sync between users — Facebook Messenger Prepares In-Store Purchase Service — Tucked inside the code for Facebook's Messenger are clues for how the chat app plans …
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AppleInsider, The Next Web, Fortune, Engadget, SlashGear and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @jessicalessin
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
As shift to algorithmic feed looms, brands and bloggers on Instagram try to get you to turn on notifications by posting reminders — Instagrammers really want you to turn on notifications to avoid death by algorithm — Instagram today is an endless sea of meaningless posts asking you to turn …
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