GeoHot or George Hotz is famous for being the first person to jailbreak the iPhone several years ago. He remained a part of the jailbreaking scene for a few years, he even developed a jailbreak for the PlayStation 3 which landed him in a lot of trouble with Sony. He has been out of the scene for some time now but late last year a profile on him revealed that he was working on a self-driving car in his garage. Mr. Hotz has now received millions of dollars in backing for his ambitious project.

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BlackBerry had confirmed back when it launched the Priv that it would upgrade its first Android handset to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The company has been very quick in getting the latest security patches out for its first Android device and it acknowledges that many of its users have been asking for the Marshmallow update. Today, the BlackBerry Priv Marshmallow beta program has gone live, the company is inviting Priv owners to participate in the program and test the Marshmallow update for this handset in beta.

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People who have the cerebral palsy movement disorder can find it hard to operate gadgets since a majority of the devices out there don’t take into account the difficulties that people with cerebral palsy might face when navigating the interface. A Sony employee went out of his way to make sure that the disorder didn’t stop one gamer from enjoying his favorite games. He made a customer PlayStation 4 controller for Peter Byrne who wrote to Sony that the DualShock 4’s touchpad was hard to use with his cerebral palsy as he would inadvertently hit the touchpad and pause the game.

Read full post →Sony Employee Creates Custom PS4 Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy

Amazon today announced the launch of its Amazon Payments Global Partner Program in a bid to effectively compete against the likes of PayPal and other similar companies. The new program will bring the Amazon Payments platform to more third-party websites. E-commerce platform providers and developers will be able to integrate Amazon Payments into their services thus enabling merchants to allow their customers to “Pay with Amazon” when checking out.

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Analogue is a game hardware company that’s best known for selling the Nt, a modified and beautiful variant of the NES system, and now it has gone one step further. In order to pay tribute to The Legend of Zelda franchise on its 30th anniversary, the company has created a super limited edition version of the Nt that’s decked in 24-karat gold. Only ten units of this Nt will be produced and sold.

Read full post →Limited Edition 24-Karat Gold NES Costs $5000

This might not interest you if you’re happy with using Outlook the way millions of other people do across the globe but do read on if you’re looking to get a bit more out of this Microsoft service. Microsoft today launched invite-only testing for Outlook Premium, it’s a paid subscription service that provides subscribers with additional features that conventional Outlook users won’t get.

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There is a lot of interest in Tesla’s new electric car. The Model 3 is the company’s first mass-market all-electric car. Customers seem to like it as almost $12 billion in orders have been placed already even though the company has only gone through with part 1 of the Model 3 unveil. CEO Elon Musk has been dropping hints about the car and he has said that the Model 3 features “spaceship” steering controls.

Read full post →Elon Musk Says Tesla Model 3 Has “Spaceship” Steering Controls

For over a decade, BlackBerry Messenger was kept limited to the company’s own handsets. It was only later when the company realized that it needed to take the messaging service cross-platform or risk losing more than it already had to rivals like WhatsApp and Kik. BBM has done relatively well since it arrived on iOS and Android. BlackBerry has now updated the app to make some BBM privacy features free for all users.

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The Samsung Gear VR is an excellent entry point into the world of virtual reality. At $99 it’s one of the most affordable VR headsets in the market even though you need a Samsung flagship handset to use it. The Gear VR’s functionality has gradually been improved over time and now it will be able to provide a more immersive web experience to users as it has gained support for the web’s native VR standard.

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Phones are typically carried in bags, in pockets, and in our hands, so obviously the idea that they could suddenly explode is rather unsettling. Imagine walking down the road with your phone in your hand and it suddenly catches on fire, how dangerous would that be? Now we have heard many such stories in the past, and it looks like it has happened again. Read full post →Man Sues LG After Phone Explodes In His Pocket