Microsoft’s HoloLens is now available to pre-order in Europe
HoloLens has been a slow burn for Microsoft. The company kicked off pre-orders in the US and Canada on February 29th, with the first deliveries starting a month later. The use-cases are massive, but the high cost of entry has limited the hardware to deep-pocketed developers. That could change, however, if Microsoft develops HoloLens as a platform. At Computex in June, the company opened up its “Windows Holographic”...
Thud Rumble’s Intel-powered DJ mixer has a PC inside
At today’s Intel IDF keynote, DJs Qbert and Killa-Jewel (Julie Fainer) showed off prototype versions of that four-year-old promise. It’s called “the Invader” and houses a touchscreen display running Windows 10. During today’s presentation, both turntablers were spinning with the popular Traktor mixing software — but they could be using any DJ app that runs on Microsoft’s operating system....
Windows Holographic coming to all Windows 10 PCs next year
We already knew that all Windows 10 PCs will be compatible with Windows Holographic, a “mixed reality” experience that’ll let you immerse yourself in faraway lands. Now, we know when that will be. Terry Myerson, Executive VP of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices group, just came on stage at the Intel Developer’s Forum to announce there’ll be an update to Windows 10 to add the holographic shell update...
Researchers discover advanced cyber-espionage malware
ProjectSauron has been active since at least 2011, but it was only unearthed recently because it was designed not to use patterns security experts usually look for when hunting for malware. Kaspersky only discovered its existence when it was asked by an unnamed government organization to investigate something weird going on with its network traffic.The malware can move across a network — across even air gapped computers that are...
Chrome is nearly ready to talk to your Bluetooth devices
At the moment, trying Web Bluetooth requires the stars to align in just the right way. You’ll need a pre-release version of Chrome 53, and you’ll naturally want to find (or create) a website that uses the tech in the first place. It’ll take a while before the code is widely in use, we’d add — Google doesn’t expect website trials to wrap until January. Even so, this hints at a future where you...
