Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey's Support For Pro-Trump Trolls Angers VR Game Developers and other top stories.

• Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey's Support For Pro-Trump Trolls Angers VR Game Developers

  Many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and developers haven't taken too kindly to the news that Palmer Luckey — the 24-year-old co-founder of Oculus VR and creator of Oculus Rift — has been secretly backing a pro-Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and creating viral anti-Hillary Clinton memes.According to several media reports, Luckey's anti-Clinton stance and speculation over his possible association with the prominent alt-right spokesman Milo Yiannopoulos — who was recently banned from T..

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• Chromebooks now have an easy time running Android apps

  

  The stable version of Chrome OS includes Google Play Store access if you're using the right PC. You no longer have to be an early adopter to run Android apps on a Chromebook. Google has released a stable version of Chrome OS that includes Google Play Store access in beta, giving you the opportunity to run mobile apps on top of your usual web access. You'll have to own an Acer Chromebook R11 or an ASUS Chromebook Flip to give this update a shot, but it beats having to run a Chrome OS beta just..

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• Samsung Electronics delays South Korea re-start of Note 7 sales by three d...

  

  SEOUL Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Sunday it was delaying the start of new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone sales in South Korea by three days to Oct. 1, a move it says is needed for speedy completion of the ongoing recall in the country. Samsung announced on Sept. 2 a recall of at least 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in 10 markets, including South Korea, due to a faulty battery causing the phones to catch fire, offering refunds or replacement devices using safe batteries. The ..

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• Twitter needs to sell now or risk becoming another Yahoo

  

  Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, center, around the time of the Microsoft talks in 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Twitter, which was once a darling of the tech industry and went public almost three years ago in an eye-popping IPO, appears to be up for sale. We've seen this story with an internet company before. In fact, the parallels between Twitter and Yahoo are rather striking: A rotating cast of CEOs and executives with little direction; a powerful platform once s..

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• Google's self-driving car is the victim in a serious crash

  

  Google will likely shed full detail on the collision in its self-driving car report due at the end of the month. It makes no bones about what happened in a statement, though (see below). The Lexus didn't enter the intersection until "at least" 6 seconds after its traffic light turned green. There was no question that the van driver was at fault, in other words. Google also stressed that red light violations are the "leading cause" of car crashes in US cities, and that 94 percent of those ar..

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• These Photos Prove The iPhone 7 Plus Doesn't Take Better Pictures Than LG V20 Or Huawei P9 Plus

  

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