Archive for January, 2014
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Posted by: amygdala on January 6, 2014
- HTC cuts Vive VR headset's price by $200, to $599, to remain competitive with Oculus Rift (Jon Fingas/Engadget)
- Intel unveils 8th Gen Intel Core processors based on an updated "Kaby Lake refresh" architecture, claims 40% performance boost over earlier gen (Peter Bright/Ars Technica)
- An excerpt from Ellen Pao's book "Reset": This is how sexism works in Silicon Valley. My lawsuit failed. Others won't. (Ellen Pao/The Cut)
- How iMessage came to dominate messaging among US teens, with studies showing ~70% on it, and where Apple may go with it to disrupt apps like Snapchat, Messenger (Giuseppe Stuto)
- ZeroEx raises $24M in an ICO for 0x protocol that enables the trading of Ethereum's ERC-20 compliant tokens without the need of centralized exchanges (Christine Chiang/Brave New Coin)
- Researchers: October's Mirai botnet attack on Dyn DNS service was incidental; original target was PlayStation Network name servers used by Dyn (Russell Brandom/The Verge)
- Decentraland, a virtual reality world project that uses blockchain tech to track ownership of digital plots of land, raises $25M via ICO (Stan Higgins/CoinDesk)
- Microsoft kicks off Xbox One X pre-orders today with a limited 'Project Scorpio' edition (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
- Researchers demo using a hidden chip in a replacement smartphone screen to log keyboard input, install malicious apps, and take pictures (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Chinese tech firms, such as Didi Chuxing and NetEase, often advise women not to reply to job ads, with NetEase noting "the job is tough and stressful" (Li Yuan/Wall Street Journal)
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