Best Buy and Walmart have begun selling the Xbox One console bundled with a copy of Nick Wingfield of
Each time there’s a high-profile data breach, security experts exhort the same best practices: Create unique logins for every service you use, use complex passwords, vigilantly comb your credit card statements for anomalies. The advice is sound. Unfortunately, it obscures the fact that the safety of your personal information is ultimately in the hands of companies you share it with. Identity theft is changing. Customer databases are a treasure trove of personal information and much more efficient for hackers to target than individuals. In this new landscape, the guidelines security experts—and journalists like me—espouse are really just damage-control measures that minimize the impact of a successful attack after the fact, but do absolutely nothing to protect your personal data or financial information from the attack itself.
The streaming media service may be getting improved speeds from Comcast now that it's paying for direct access to the ISP's network, but Reed Hastings doesn't sound too thrilled with the arrangement.
Today's Glass Explorer edition will eventually look like a quaint relic of yesteryear, Google shares in a 10-point, myth-busting blog.
It's hard to believe it was barely a year ago when the first Oculus Rift prototypes shipped to developers. Shortly thereafter, the first tentative games arrived, more stabs in the dark than real products—experiments in this untested frontier. Where would the limits come? Who would develop the first mass-production game for virtual reality? No one knew. But you wouldn't know virtual reality is still in its infancy if you wandered the Game Developers Conference show floor this week. Scattered around Moscone Center in San Francisco were no less than four—and maybe more?—VR headsets, a plethora of different input methods, and even a shot-for-virtual-reality
Graffiti artists are spray-painting DNS addresses on Turkish walls, as citizens do everything they can to duck the Turkish government's attempted censorship of Twitter.
After nearly five years of lingering on the same stable release, the next generation of DirectX is finally on its way. But a specter hung over While AMD's Raja Koduri was on-hand to say that DirectX 12 and Direct3D 12 was like "getting four generations of hardware ahead," the technology may have never seen the light of day without AMD's goading. After securing deals to create the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One's hardware, the company
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Mt. Gox has said it found 200,000 of the bitcoins it claimed may have disappeared as a result of a software flaw. In a The finding may be a glimmer of hope for Mt. Gox’s customers, although bankruptcy proceedings in Japan and the U.S. are unlikely to result in a speedy determination of which creditors get paid first. The 200,000 bitcoins were worth about $116 million at market price Friday. Wallets are software programs for holding and transferring bitcoins, and other payments applications. The wallet in which the bitcoins were found were used in the past and the exchange thought it no longer held any bitcoins, wrote Mark Karpelès, Mt. Gox’s CEO.
Google’s Project Tango, the prototype smartphone packed with sensors so it can learn and sense the world around it, is heading to the International Space Station. Two of the Tango phones are due to be launched to the ISS on the upcoming Orbital 2 mission, which is scheduled to launch in May and take supplies to the station. The phones will be used as part of a NASA project that’s developing robots that could one day fly around the inside or outside of the space station, or even be used in NASA’s planned mission to land on an asteroid. Work on the robots is already going on at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and this week the space agency let a small group of reporters visit its lab and see some of the research.
He was the media tycoon who flew beneath your radar. And yet Pat McGovern, who died last night at the age of 76, is the reason PCWorld—along with hundreds of other technology-oriented websites, publications and events—is here today. We’re here because Pat believed in the power of technology and the need to educate people about what it meant, and how to use it. In the last 24 hours at PCWorld, we’ve posted breaking stories on new
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