Test drive the PC-optimized 'Forza 6: Apex' on May 5th and other top stories.

• Test drive the PC-optimized 'Forza 6: Apex' on May 5th

  

  Last September, Microsoft released Forza Motorsport 6 for PC and Xbox One to feed the ultra-realist gamer's need for meticulously-detailed racing. But back in March, Microsoft announced a re-release of Forza 6 specially crafted to run on Windows 10 (and only Windows 10 -- sorry Xbox One owners). On May 5th, Microsoft will unleash Forza Motorsport 6: Apex's open beta for players to enjoy all summer, with a full release at an undisclosed later date.

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• Google's OnHub router uses IFTTT to automate your life

  

  In the case of OnHub, you can set up IFTTT to send you an email when your kid gets home from school and their device connects to the router, for example. Because the recipes work with a host of apps and connected devices, you can make connecting to your WiFi network trigger things like turning on Philips Hue lighting when your phone is in range. There's also OnHub-specific recipes for things like prioritizing your Chromecast while streaming or giving a Nest Cam more bandwidth when it senses mot..

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• 'No Man's Sky' lore comes from classic sci-fi and comics

  

  What's more, their contributions to the supplemental materials that come with certain versions of No Man's Sky influenced the development team to consider how things worked in the game proper. Like landing gear on a ship, for instance. Knowing all this makes the game's PlayStation 4 limited edition being currently sold out on Amazon and the $150 iam8bit "Explorer's Edition" on PC not including the comics sting a bit more. VIDEO

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• Biz Stone's Jelly relaunches as bespoke question-answering resource

  

  The third time may be the charm for Twitter cofounder Biz Stone. Jelly, the Q&A startup the Twitter cofounder created alongside Ben Finkel, has just opened up to the public, launching more than four months after the company announced its “un-pivot.” Now the company is one that Stone says “I’ve always wanted.” But do we really need another Q&A service? Moving out of beta and available to all Billed as being a search engine that taps into people’s knowledge, Jelly takes the everyday question and ..

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• Microsoft is using synthetic DNA to store data

  

  Microsoft's data might be intact for thousands of years to come, now that it's looking into DNA storage as an option. The company has purchased 10-million-long oligonucleotides (DNA or RNA molecules) from San Francisco startup Twist Bioscience. According to IEEE, Redmond converted a chunk of data into DNA nucleotides -- G's, A's, C's and T's -- and had Twist make 10 million synthetic DNA strands with the sequences it specified. The startup doesn't actually have access to the data, since it does..

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• Google Taps Former Motorola Chief For New Hardware Division

  

  Google has hired former Motorola chief Rick Osterloh to lead its new hardware division. Google said this is part of the company's strategy to unify its hardware products under one roof and one leadership.(Photo : Daniel Boczarski | Getty Images) Google is fusing its hardware products into a new division, tapping former Motorola president Rick Osterloh to oversee the business unit. The new unit will house many of Google's upcoming, as well as existing, hardware projects such as the Nexus smartp..

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• Twitter gets anti-'Social' in the App Store, bills itself as 'News'

  

  Ole Spata/Corbis Everyone's favourite 140-character micro-blogging platform is quietly setting off on a new course on the vast oceans of the Internet, changing classification in the app store from "Social Networking" to "News."Rather than going up against the likes of Facebook, Skype and Facebook's spin-off app Messenger, the move sees Twitter playing in the big leagues with The New York Times, The Guardian and ..

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• The NYT is giving out 300000 more Google Cardboard viewers

  

  The New York Times is giving out free Google Cardboard VR devices. Yes, again! The company had previously distributed a million some devices to print subscribers as part of the kickoff celebration around its then-new NYT VR app, built in collaboration with Google, back in November 2015. Today, the media company says it will send out another 300,000 Cardboard viewers to its “most loyal” digital subscribers. The NYT says it will calculate loyalty based on the duration of their subscriptions, so ..

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