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Review: Oculus Quest is exactly what VR needs to hit the mainstream

Jun26
by on June 26, 2019 at 2:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Wanna feel old? It’s been seven years since Doom-creator John Carmack first unveiled his ski-goggles contraption that would eventually become the Oculus Rift. A lot has happened in the years that have since passed, including Oculus’ 2 billion dollar acquisition by Facebook. What was then only a finicky but promising prototype, is now a multi-billion dollar industry.  However, virtual reality still isn’t very accessible or mainstream. Sure you can get a PlayStation VR headset for like 250 bucks, but that still needs to be hooked up to a PlayStation 4. Other solutions are even more expensive and require beefy computers,…

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Bitcoin ransomers claim second victory as Florida town pays $500,000

Jun26
by on June 26, 2019 at 2:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A second town in Florida has paid over $500,000 in Bitcoin to hackers following a ransomware attack. Officials in Lake City paid the hackers after their computer systems were down for two weeks. IT staff are thought to have disconnected their computers within minutes of the attack beginning, but their efforts proved too little, too late. As a result of the attack, employees lost access to email accounts and citizens were unable to make municipal payments online.  The hackers contacted the town’s insurer and negotiated a payment of 42BTC ($500,000), with officials claiming that paying the amount was the best…

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Swedish court fines Facebook group admin for failing to delete hate speech

Jun26
by on June 26, 2019 at 12:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Patrik Markström, an administrator of the Facebook group “Stå Upp För Sverige” (Stand Up For Sweden), has been fined by a Swedish court for not regulating and deleting eight “grossly offensive comments” that other people had posted on the Facebook page.  Markström denied responsibility claiming he had not seen the comments on the group before. Despite this, yesterday the Eskilstuna District Court found him guilty after agreeing with the prosecutor that the comments were clearly discriminatory against ethnic minority groups.  In a press release published by the court, it outlined: “The district court found that the man must have seen…

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CHEAP: Summon the BASS GOD with $100 off this 3-piece Amazon Echo subwoofer set-up

Jun26
by on June 26, 2019 at 12:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Having an Alexa-powered speaker in your home is cool. But you know what’s cooler? A super system of Echo speakers with a sub-woofer. Right now, you can get a bundle of two 2nd-gen Echo speakers and an Echo Sub for just $229, down from $329. Buying this trio means you’ll get the perfect 2.1 wireless speaker system you always wanted. Echo speakers will deliver a room-filling sound with a 0.6-inch tweeter and a 2.5-inch woofer. Plus, the 100 WEcho Sub will give you deep bass…

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