March, 2017

• 9 March

  Now you can watch two major college basketball tourneys in VR

  

  The (March) Madness is officially under way. With anticipation building for college basketball’s big dance later this month, two rival conferences are broadcasting their respective championship tournaments in virtual reality. The ACC is partnering with EON Sports VR to show its tourney from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Fans can watch the games by downloading …

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• 9 March

  The Samsung Galaxy S8 may start recognizing faces

  

  Say cheese: The Samsung Galaxy S8 may include a facial recognition feature to unlock your phone more easily. This extra security option could come in addition to a possible iris scanner and the usual fingerprint sensor, according to a report by Korea Economic Daily. Fingerprint sensors are starting to feel old school. Aloysius Low/CNET “So what?” you might say, if …

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• 9 March

  ‘Game of Thrones’ S7 will be cheaper to stream this year

  

  July 17. Put it in your diaries. “Game of Thrones” returneth. It’s the time of year when everyone suddenly forgets all the other awesome shows on TV right now, to focus on just one: Gamey-Throney, the great dragon and nudity hour. And once again, if you want to get the good stuff at the same time as the US, you’ll …

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• 9 March

  Playing the ‘fear card’: UN privacy expert slams online spying

  

  Think the CIA is the only government agency that could be listening in? Governments the world over are playing the “fear card” with their citizens, pushing through “extremely intrusive” surveillance laws that are a major threat to privacy. That’s the verdict of the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joseph Cannataci, who has released a scathing report …

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• 9 March

  Scientists want to borrow power from your phone to cure cancer

  

  Japanese scientists want your help to cure cancer. No, they don’t want your money — they want the processing power of your phone. The Smash Childhood Cancer project utilises people’s phones and computers to run drug simulations, which would take thousands of years to run on a single computer. Akira Nakagawara and his team at the Saga-ken Medical Centre Koseikan …

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• 9 March

  Facebook Messenger Day: Tips for using the newest Snapchat clone

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Messenger copies Snapchat Stories to stay hip 1:46 At some point, you have to feel bad for Snapchat. WhatsApp and Instagram each have released a feature that’s nearly identical to Snapchat’s Stories feature, which lets you post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. Now here comes Facebook Messenger with a new feature called …

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• 8 March

  The CIA may be spying on us with our own phones (The 3:59, Ep. 191)

  

  The CIA is listening in our conversations and it may be the fault of our iPhones and Galaxy S handsets. At least, that’s according to WikiLeaks and its Tuesday release of documents that reveal the CIA’s techniques for hacking into our lives. The documents show that the CIA was able to use exploits and find ways to break into the …

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• 8 March

  Microsoft closes So.cl social network

  

  Microsoft is closing its social network. You didn’t know Microsoft had a social network? Well, that could be why it’s shutting down. So.cl looks a bit like content-sharing networks such as Tumblr or Pinterest. It launched nearly five years ago in May 2012 as an experiment primarily aimed at students and younger people. Microsoft’s Fuse Labs, which specialises in wacky …

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• 8 March

  Netflix to create content for India, open office in Mumbai

  

  Can’t get enough of Netflix? Neither can people in India, where Netflix is growing fast after launching early last year. To reciprocate the love, Netflix will set up an office in Mumbai and invest more in creating TV shows and movies specifically for India, company CEO Reed Hastings said, according to the Economic Times. Netflix will work to eliminate buffering …

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• 8 March

  These cruise ships will deck you out in wearable tech

  

  It’s anchors aweigh for the cruise industry as it sails full-steam ahead into the world of wearable tech. MSC Cruises on Wednesday became the second cruise company in 2017 to announce a tech makeover for its cruise ships. This will involve deploying beacon technology in the 11 megaships the company is building over the next 10 years, as well as …

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