Play Echo Arena with your Oculus Rift this weekend and you could win bigPlay Echo Arena with your Oculus Rift this weekend and you could win big

Oculus seems to really want gamers to check out Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift, and as a bit of encouragement, it's running a "Rift Gold Rush" event this weekend. The event will give players a chance to win a number of prizes totaling $28,000.  

The event takes place on Saturday, April 14, from 1-2pm PT / 4-5pm ET, and players who join public

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For two months in early 2018, technology journalist Kashmir Hill let innocent household items spy on her.

She had turned her one-bedroom apartment into a "smart home" and was measuring how much data was being collected by the firms that made the devices.

Her smart toothbrush betrayed when she had not brushed her teeth, her

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Yasmin GreenImage copyrightRyan Lash/TEDImage caption Yasmin Green wants to fight extremism with empathetic technology

The online methods used by Jihadist groups to recruit members and the way Google is countering them, have been revealed at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.

The research director of

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These days, it’s surprisingly commonplace – and arguably necessary – for kids to have computing devices. Generally speaking, those devices are rugged and cheap tablets. However, there comes a time when that just won’t cut it for school work and even play.

Your kid will need a real laptop with a keyboard and large screen that’s also robust enough to

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