Sales of virtual reality headsets plummeted in the second quarter, but analysts are spinning the numbers as a temporary setback. The numbers, published Wednesday by International Data Corp., showed that sales of VR headsets dropped almost 34 percent in the second quarter from a year ago. Leading the plunge was a massive drop in the sales of screenless headsets, ...

Uber Technologies Inc. today rolled out a number of new safety features, as ride-hailing services are in the headlights after a passenger was murdered by a driver of the partially Uber-owned Didi Chuxing Technology Co. last month. The changes offer enhanced protection for riders and drivers alike, starting with a new feature that is said to ...

Cryptocurrencies crashed Wednesday after a report claimed that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has abandoned plans to establish a bitcoin trading desk. The plan, first announced by Goldman Sachs in May, would have seen the bank using its own money to trade with clients in a variety of contracts linked to the price of bitcoin. The assets ...

Despite a failed strategy to sell camera sunglasses, Snap Inc. is taking a shot it with two new versions of its Spectacles glasses. The new glasses announced today, oddly named Nico and Veronica, are black-on-black with polarized lenses, which Snap claimed “effortlessly combine form and function to create our most fashionable hands-free camera.” Based on Spectacles Version 2.0 launched ...

Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that it’s finally adding call recording to its Skype video and audio calling service, but in a twist, not yet in the Windows 10 version. The new feature comes as Microsoft desperately tries to win back fans after arguably destroying most of its goodwill by trying to turn Skype into Snapchat. The call recording feature, ...

Google LLC has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its all-conquering Chrome web browser by launching a new version that has support for phone notches, among other things. The original version of Google Chrome launched on Sept. 2, 2008, at a time Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser dominated the market while the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox held ...

A man in Vancouver, Washington, has been indicted for allegedly being the mastermind behind the Satori botnet, the one reported to be running rampant across “internet of things” devices from 2016 through this year. Kenneth Currin Schuchman, 20, was indicted last week in an Alaskan federal court on two charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ...

Bitcoin spinoff Bitcoin Gold is in a spot of bother after leading U.S. exchange Bittrex Inc. announced that it would delist the cryptocurrency starting Sept. 14 following a May attack on the Bitcoin Gold blockchain. Cryptocurrencies come and go on a regular basis and barely make headlines, but Bitcoin Gold’s current drama is a different ...

Google LLC today released a new artificial intelligence tool that aims to assist organizations in identifying and removing online child sexual abuse material. The Content Safety API is a toolkit that uses deep neural networks for image processing to identify the material quickly while minimizing the need for human inspections. That’s a cumbersome process that often involves ...

Questions are being raised about the security of Google LLC’s recently launched Titan Security Key because it’s manufactured in China. The key, which offers phishing-resistant two-factor authentication login capability into secure sites, went on sale Thursday. Differentiating itself from 2fa keys such as RSA Security LLC’s SecurID fobs that generate a challenge number for a login, the Titan ...