
Google backing ARM servers
Don't get your hopes up
Google is set to announce that it is working with Qualcomm to design servers based on ARM processors, in a move which could give the British chip designer some street cred in the data centre market.

Mossberg blasts Apple’s poor software
Times are a changing in the Tame Apple Press
It seems that key members of the Tame Apple Press are starting to have epiphanies lately about how bad Apple really is and are starting to turn on the cult for failing to meet their expectations and spin.

Apple and Google preparing to enter VR market
New job postings suggest keen interest
It was made clear earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that 2016 would be the year that virtual reality (VR) finally becomes available in consumer formats to initial enthusiast public audiences. Some of the major competitors we’ve seen in this space so far include Facebook-owned Oculus with its Rift headset, Sony’s PlayStation VR headset and HTC’s Vive Pre headset, which we explored here.

Haptic touch gloves for VR games coming soon
A much needed interface for virtual environments
Recently, a New York-based startup has emerged from the shadows and promises to give virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) users a much more natural alternative controller interface for their new headset toys than the proprietary ones emerging with each new device.

Nvidia breaches the walls of Chrome
Remembers your p*rn
Nvidia fanboys can be safely assured that details of their visits to smut sites over the last two years have been lovingly recorded by their GPU.

Google rubs in tech-superiority over watch tech
Allows fanboys to defect
Search engine outfit Google is offering Apple fanboys a way to get a proper smartwatch without losing the only product that Jobs’ Mob makes – the iPhone.

Google and Lenovo create AR phone
You will know that you have been tangoed
Google and Lenovo are teaming up to build a smartphone using Project Tango’s 3D augmented reality technology.

Google gave Scientology a leg up
$6 million in free advertising claimed
A Scientology activist has claimed that in 2014, Google gave about $6 million in free advertising to the Church of Scientology.

Apple software most vulnerable and buggy
Even worse than Flash
Fruity cargo cult Apple is actually peddling software which is even less secure than Adobe Flash Player, according to new statistics.

Google and Ford to announce partnership on self-driving cars at CES
Ford to become first of many in potential partnership
According to the recent report, there is evidence for a good chance that tech giant Google and automotive giant Ford Motor Company may be partnering up at the Consumer Electronics Show this week to announce a joint partnership on self-driving vehicles powered by Google technology.