A US jury has found the original Oculus founders, Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe, used code and IP from ID Software (parent company ZeniMax), makers of Doom and Quake, to build the Rift VR headset and awarded damages of US$500 million.
Have you been pwned? Australian web security expert, ethical hacker and Microsoft Regional Director Troy Hunt maintains a website of the known breaches. Gamers using Xbox, PlayStation, Pokemon, Minecraft and more need to change passwords.
Former Woolworths senior executive Emma Gray has been appointed as the ANZ Bank’s first Chief Data Officer.
Audience Republic, an Australian-developed online platform that helps event organisers increase ticket sales, has closed a $525,000 seed investment round and will use the funds to accelerate customer acquisition and for product development.
Police in Middletown, in southwestern Ohio, have used data from a man's pacemaker to charge him with arson after his house burnt down.
Activist group SumOfUs.org has included tech companies such as IBM, SpaceX, Tesla, and Uber among 19 corporations “named and shamed” as supporters of US President Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim immigration policy.
Australian online consumers show little interest in their finances and don’t engage much with financial institutions, or seek out financial advice, despite the wider availability of digital money management tools, according to a newly published study from Forrester Research.
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