McDonalds Working on its Own VR Headset?

McDonalds announces a test run of a limited quantity of a new virtual reality device built into their iconic Happy Meal boxes, similar to Google Cardboard. Virtual reality is definitely…

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IoT Vulnerabilities Found in Nissan LEAF and in Wireless Keyboards, Mice

Significant security flaws were recently uncovered in the Nissan LEAF electric car, and in the vast majority of wireless, non-Bluetooth keyboards and mice. Security company Bastille uncovered the MouseJack vulnerability…

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Visa Bets Big on IoT Devices, Starts With Cars That Pay for Their Own Fuel

Visa doesn't to be left behind in the booming Internet of Things (IoT) market. The payments company announced that it is expanding its Visa Ready program to lure manufacturers of…

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Wearables Market Races Ahead, Paced by Fitbit, Apple: IDC

The global market for connected wearable devices accelerated at the end of 2015, with Fitbit pacing the leaders and Apple closing ground, a survey showed Tuesday. The IDC survey found…

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SteamVR Performance Test Lets You Know If You Need a New PC

With HTC Vive announced early this week, the Taiwanese company also revealed the bare minimum you need to run it: GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent…

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HoloLens Leaked Documents Reveal What Start Menu Would Like in AR

While there's still some time left for the HoloLens, Microsoft's augmented reality headset, to go on sale, it seems Microsoft is already feeding developers with instructions and guidance for the…

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Bill Gates Backs FBI in iPhone Spat: Report

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is backing the FBI in its standoff with Apple over unlocking an iPhone in the probe of last year's deadly San Bernardino attacks, the Financial Times…

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Google and Yahoo Clash With ‘Blunt’ Ad-Blocking Company

Google and Yahoo have accused ad-blocking software Shine of destroying the relationship between advertisers and consumers, after an executive from the company called its solution a "nuclear weapon" threatening the…

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Use Linux? Stop what you’re doing and apply this patch

A buffer-overflow vulnerability uncovered Tuesday in the GNU C Library poses a serious threat to countless Linux users. Dating back to the release of glibc 2.9 in 2008, CVE-2015-7547 is…

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