HIGHLIGHTS The Viveport app store offers 1,400 VR games Over 200 have been optimised for the Oculus Rift Oculus Rift users can subscribe to Viveport’s paid service HTC on Tuesday announced that it is opening up its Viveport VR-centric app store and subscription service to Oculus Rift users, which means that users of the Oculus Rift will now be able […]
Mesmerising pictures show huge clouds of white smoke blasting from the ocean at Kapaho Bay as molten lava sizzles when it hits the sea. Shocking aerial images show boiling red lava raging towards Kapaho Bay after continuous eruptions on Fissure 8 created a fast-moving lava stream towards the ocean. A river of orange lava is […]
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is planning to raise up to $6.1 billion (roughly Rs. 41,500 crores) from a Hong Kong IPO launching this week, people with knowledge of the matter said, in what will be one of the biggest tech floats globally of recent years. Xiaomi, which also makes Internet-connected devices, plans to sell about 2.18 […]
Moto Z3 Play is one of the highly anticipated upcoming smartphones that Lenovo brand Motorola is expected to launch in 2018. The handset has been subjected to several leaks and rumours for a while now, and they suggest a design that is in line with the company’s Moto Z-series of handsets. According to latest reports, the Lenovo-owned company is set to […]
Samsung Electronics said weakness in the global smartphone market would slow earnings growth, as it reported record quarterly profit on Thursday thanks to strong demand for semiconductors used in servers. The world’s biggest maker of memory chips, smartphones and television sets also flagged softer demand for smartphone OLED panels as a challenge for the second quarter, while its […]
A US appeals court on Tuesday resurrected a multi-billion dollar copyright case brought by Oracle Corp against Alphabet’s Google. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Google’s use of Oracle’s Java development platform to create the Android operating system was not protected under the fair-use provision of copyright law, reversing a 2016 jury verdict. The court sent the case […]
Redmi Note 5 will become available for purchase in India second time this week as Xiaomi announced a surprise flash sale on Twitter. In its tweet early on Friday, Xiaomi said the new Redmi 5 is being made available “on public demand” via Flipkart and Mi.com websites at 12pm IST. The tweets also mentions that the cash on […]
LG, at a press conference in CES 2018, has reportedly revealed that it will take a departure from its annual smartphone launch cycle. The company will no longer fix a regular timeline to announce its handsets as it has done historically – with the G-Series being launched in the first half, and the V-Series being launched […]
On The VICE Guide to Right Now, VICE’s daily podcast, we delve into the biggest news of the day and give you a rundown of the stories we’re reading, working on, and fascinated with. Today we discuss Trump’s tweets, protests in Iran, and proposed talks between South Korea and North Korea. Then we talk about the World Health Organization’s consideration […]
Grey ash was expelled from Mount Agung, fell from the sky and was pictured on ground in Temakung village in Karangasem Regency at 7.40am local time today. This evening Mount Agubg was still sending a plume of ash up to 1,500m in the sky in what was a beautiful yet ominous sign of the ongoing […]