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Security Threat Can Turn BB-8 To The Dark Side

January 14, 2016 Mairead

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It has been announced recently that Sphero’s BB-8 appears to have a security risk after a firmware update was pushed through. The firmware update has inadvertently given people the ability to hijack your droid. The update is done over insecure HTTP without the use of SSL. With the BB-8 being controlled through a smartphone app […]

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Oculus Rift Pre-Order Site Live Has $599 Price Tag

January 8, 2016 Eoin Farrell

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Consumer-grade versions of the Oculus Rift are now available for pre-order from Oculus directly. The expected ship date is June 2016 along with a price of $599 for the headset, sensor, Oculus Remote, necessary cables, an Xbox One controller and copies of EVE: Valkyrie, and Lucky’s Tale. The price has come as a bit of a […]

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90 Year Old Nana Uses an Oculus Rift for the First Time

January 8, 2016 Fernanda Machado

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Few things are more astounding than experiencing technology so groundbreaking that it seems like magic. This tends to happen especially if you’re not that up to date on the current advances in the field, like when I showed my dad the trailer for Star Wars Battlefront, for example. He only plays old school PC games and […]

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Lost Gene Roddenberry Work Recovered After 30 years

January 6, 2016 Declan Doody

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What can only be some amazing twist of fate, on the year Star Trek will celebrate it’s 50th anniversary, lost work from the show’s creator Gene Roddenberry has been found. Almost 200 five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks have been recovered and the data saved pulled from them thirty years after they were thought lost. Roddenberry used a custom built computer that […]

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Fan Makes Video Showing Windows 95 Booting Up On Latest Nintendo 3DS

January 3, 2016 Mary McFadden

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Windows 95 is now capable of booting on a new Nintendo 3DS, according to a fan of the system. GBATemp.net user shutterbug2000 got the classic Microsoft program to boot up on the latest Nintendo handheld device and posted a video of it to YouTube. Although the process is not officially endorsed by Nintendo, many other […]

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Oculus Touch Controllers Suffer Delay

January 2, 2016 Declan Doody

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In a blog post on their website, the team over at Oculus VR have confirmed that the Oculus Touch controllers will not be shipping in the first quarter of 2016 alongside the Rift. On the path to perfecting Touch, we’ve decided that we need more time before release, and we’ll now be shipping Touch in […]

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Google Is Working On Artificial Intelligence

December 24, 2015 Marcus Deehan

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Google is working on a new messaging app that will use artificial intelligence to bring some of the company’s results to a chat bot service, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The new chat service would allow users to talk with friends or ask questions to the chat bot that will then […]

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Deadpool Emojis Are Here!

December 23, 2015 Marcus Deehan

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As part of the promotional ’12 Days of Deadpool’ campaign being run by FOX, Mashable has revealed a series of Deadpool emojis that are available for Android and iOS devices. The keyboard includes plenty of variety including his hands, katanas and some frenemies including X-Men’s Colossus and Blind Al. If you are using your mobile you can try […]

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Pinterest Now Notifies You When Prices Drop On Your Pins

December 23, 2015 Marcus Deehan

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Pinterest has recently launched a way to track prices on your favourite pins. If you save a buyable pin you will now be able to receive in-app and email notifications when the price drops. You will then be able to buy that item within the mobile Pinterest app itself. Previously in June, Pinterest had launched […]

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App Of The Week: Star Wars

December 21, 2015 Marcus Deehan

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The Star Wars App is the official mobile connection to a galaxy far, far away. This is the perfect app for the Star Wars fan who can’t stop thinking about the latest movie in the franchise Star Wars: The Force Awakens, much like myself! This app contains a mix and gathering of features that guides […]

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