technology

Dell has announced that its cybersecurity team foiled an unauthorized intrusion into its network that attempted to extract Dell.com customer information; limited to names, email addresses and hashed passwords. The Dell security team stopped the hackers by immediately implementing...

Microsoft has beaten out all competitors to win a $480 million contract to supply over 100,000 HoloLens HMDs to the U.S. Army. The U.S. Army wanted to correct issues with close combat readiness with an Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). The program's objective is to to rapidly...

Acer has allegedly given its high-end StarVR division an ultimatum to become profitable within three months or its operations will be terminated. Industry insiders say that the StarVR division will be sold to either China or a Japan-based enterprise. Acer holds a 63.25% stake in the company...

Modern day gaming effects that users notice the most are those that manipulate light sources in a scene. The VR game development house ARVI, developers of VR titles such as The Last Day of Defense and more created a blog post that explains "ambient occlusion" (AO) and tackles its various modern...

The U.S. Justice Department has charged three Taiwanese nationals and United MIcroelectronics Corp (UMC) in addition to Chinese state-owned Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. with stealing intellectual property from the U.S. largest memory maker, Micron Technology Inc. Attorney General Jeff...

We all loathe software updates regardless if they are Windows updates, phone updates, etc. They interrupt our train of thought and sometimes they commandeer our devices and restart them on their own. A Norwegian hospital, Ostfold Hospital, experienced the nightmare of a lifetime as a patient...

As the trade war between the USA and China heats up, many have feared that China will seek to displace the Western countries in technological innovations. Certainly China has made this a focus with their Made in China 2025 initiative. But one lesson that we all know is that throwing money at...

Sports and technology have always progressed hand in hand as new mediums for bringing sports to the masses emerge over time. From radio broadcasts to television; from the VCR to HD online streams on computers and cellphones, sports broadcasts have readily adopted new tech to attract new...

According to a report from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies the North Koreans are marketing a variety of different technologies including facial recognition software. It appears that the NoKo's are very good at hiding their identity by using front companies, websites, and...

A team of geeks at the University of Utah is telling the Deseret News that it has come up with a better way to make those holograms you see displayed on packaging and seals. However, they do say that the technology could be applied to live hologram displays as well in VR headsets, movies, and...

Spray on or stick on your conductive layers with a small attached electrodes to measure current, and voila! Just touch! You and even use this technology to make 3D printed objects that are touch sensitive. This is not exactly as precise as what we see on our traditional touchscreens nowadays...

In 10 years or so maybe OLED tech can be imprinted on a pair of contacts and some sort of micro battery or some new battery tech powering them and a wireless kind of connection to a computer. This tech may be a bit far off but I can see it coming in near future. How awesome would it be? Would...

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