Vrse, a company that makes virtual-reality films and is known for helping create The New York Times’ VR projects, is changing its name to Within, and it announced a $12.56 million round of funding. “When you’re in VR, you’re experiencing something that you are within,” Drew Larner, the company’s chief operating officer, said in an …

Orlando gunman Omar Mateen’s Facebook activities were apparently very telling, according to a letter a US senator sent to the social network’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Sen. Ron Johnson’s letter, dated Wednesday, requests that Facebook provide all data on the gunman’s “activities on his account and any affiliated Facebook accounts, including but not limited to activity logs, Facebook timeline information, Facebook …

Now playing: Watch this: Get a taste of the Litchfield Penitentiary experience… 1:04 I don’t know about you, but I never want to go to prison. However, if you’re a fan of Netflix series “Orange is the New Black,” you might make an exception and visit the Litchfield Penitentiary Cafeteria in Singapore. With the next season of the show set …

Snapchat hasn’t given up on original content after all. The Venice, California-based company plans to launch a new online magazine called Real Life, which aims to break away from the norm by focusing on our lives with tech. “Real Life will publish essays, arguments, and narratives about living with technology,” Snapchat employee and social media critic Nathan Jurgenson explained in …

UberEats has launched in London, giving Brits a taste of Uber’s app-based food delivery service. From today, Londoners will be able to order food from their iOS or Android devices, or from Ubereats.com. Uber’s food service — which debuted in the US last year, and is already in Paris — will offer nosh from more than 150 restaurants in the …

Now playing: Watch this: Twitter live streaming (sort of) comes to iOS, Android 1:15 Facebook makes it super easy to start a live stream of whatever you want. The feature is built into the status update. A change to Twitter’s iOS and Android apps let you quickly live stream, but you have to use the Periscope app to do it. …

In keeping up with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu has just made a big investment in kids programing. The company on Thursday announced a content licensing agreement with The Disney-ABC Television Group. The deal will bring more than 500 episodes and more than 20 original movie titles from Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD to the Hulu Kids library. As …

Come September, Amazon Prime members can experience different cuisines around the globe with Emeril Lagasse as their guide. “Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse” is a six-episode Amazon original series that has the world-famous celebrity chef meeting up with other well-known chefs to introduce him to the culinary history, traditions and techniques of other cultures. The season will include a …

Facebook, Twitter and Google are on the receiving end of a lawsuit from a man who claims they’re providing “material support” to terrorist groups such as ISIS. Reynaldo Gonzalez, whose daughter Nohemi was among the 130 people killed in the Paris attacks last November, filed his lawsuit Tuesday in the US District Court in the Northern District of California. The …

You’ve set up your Gear Fit 2, now what? Start within going through these settings to get the most our of your brand new smartwatch, fitness tracker combo. From changing watch faces or installing new ones from the store, to controlling Spotify from your wrist, there’s plenty of functionality hidden in the Fit 2. Watch faces There are a couple …

Nine Inch Nails front man and Apple Music Chief Creative Officer Trent Reznor has joined the chorus of YouTube critics. Trent Reznor is no fan of YouTube. Getty Images As news from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference settles down, Reznor and three other Apple executives sat down with Billboard. In an interview published Tuesday, Reznor called YouTube “disingenuous.” “It is built …

The tiny remote controls included with Apple TV boxes are slippery little suckers, perfect for sliding between the cushion on your couch and so thin they may be tough to locate. For those times when you can’t find the clicker, having a remote app on your phone is a lifesaver. At its World Wide Developers Conference a couple days ago …

The upcoming “Doctor Who” spinoff series “Class” will have an openly gay lead character. “Class” creator and writer Patrick Ness tweeted the news on Monday. Originally the character’s sexual orientation was meant to be kept under wraps until the show’s debut, but in the wake of Sunday’s deadly mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, that targeted patrons at a gay nightclub, …

Consumer interest in wearable technology shows no sign of waning any time soon. Global shipments of wearable devices is expected to reach 101.9 million units by the end of 2016, an increase of 29 percent over last year, according to a report released Wednesday by market researcher IDC. The market’s annual growth rate is expected to remain steady at about …

Facebook isn’t researching user data all willy-nilly. Instead, there’s a review process that squares research with the company’s privacy policy and involves ethicists and experts from inside and outside the company. That’s according to a blog post published Wednesday by two people involved in managing research at Facebook. “Research only begins when the full group agrees that the benefits — …