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Facebook unveils Oculus Go, a new $199 standalone wireless VR headset, shipping early next year with Gear VR support, integrated spatial audio, and new optics — Onstage at Oculus Connect 4 in San Jose, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new mobile headset called “Oculus Go.”
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Facebook drops Oculus Rift's price with bundled Touch controllers to $399 — Summer of Rift had a major impact on the VR industry, and the community's response showed that the appetite for best-in-class VR hardware and games is stronger than ever. We want to continue getting VR into more people's hands …
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Facebook debuts Rift Core 2.0 with redesigned Dash UI featuring dock-like hub and Home, the desktop-like space that can be shown to friends in VR, coming in Dec — Today, we announced Rift Core 2.0, a complete overhaul of Rift's core experience that lets people do more in VR than ever before.
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Sources: after hacking Kaspersky's network in 2014, Israel told NSA that it found Russian spies using Kaspersky software to search for US intel docs — It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers … | Wall Street Journal: |
US officials say Kaspersky antivirus tool was modified for espionage purposes to search for terms like “top secret” and that the firm must have known — Searches exploited popular Russian-made antivirus software to seek classified material, officials say| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Amazon unveils new waterproof Kindle Oasis with a 7-inch screen and support for Audible audiobooks, available to order now starting at $249.99, ships October 31 — We called Amazon's last Kindle Oasis “the perfect e-reader for the one percent.” That still describes the new Oasis, which Amazon is officially unveiling today.
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In an interview focusing on augmented reality, Tim Cook says the technology doesn't exist to make quality AR smart glasses — In a wide-ranging interview, the CEO of the biggest tech company in the world explains how AR will change our lives, and why he thinks the world is actually getting better
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Study: social media has become a direct threat to democracy in areas such as echo chambers, misinformation, manipulation, micro-targeting, hate speech — Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, is a philanthropist, technologist and humanitarian. He is a member of The WorldPost editorial board.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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India's Uber rival Ola raises $1.1B led by Tencent, says it's close to finalizing a $2.1B round, which source says would give company a $7B post-money valuation — It's been a long while coming but Uber's chief rival in India is finally raising a big round, and joining the billion-dollar round club at the same time.| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber faces at least five criminal probes from US DoJ, two more than previously reported, including possible violation of price-transparency laws — Shortly after taking over Uber Technologies Inc. in September, Dara Khosrowshahi told employees to brace for a painful six months.
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California DMV revises rules to allow testing of autonomous cars without human drivers, steering wheels, mirrors, more starting in 2018 — 42 companies are now testing 285 self-driving cars in the Golden State — The California Department of Motor Vehicles will allow autonomous cars … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Cyngn (formerly Cyanogen), which raised $115M to build a more open flavor of Android, pivots to self-driving technology — Cyngn, a Silicon Valley startup that raised $115 million to build a more open flavor of the Android mobile operating system, has changed course and is now working on autonomous driving technology.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pornhub to start using an AI-powered system that uses facial recognition to automatically identify porn stars and tag videos — Popular “adult entertainment” site Pornhub will begin using a new AI-powered system that taps facial recognition technology to automatically identify porn stars.
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Qualcomm fined $773M by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission for violating antitrust rules for at least seven years — Qualcomm Inc. was fined a record NT$23.4 billion ($773 million) by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission in the latest blow from regulators over the way the U.S. company prices mobile phone chips and patents.
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