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Last week, I befriended a fuzzy pink alien that my robot sidekick and I nicknamed Pork Bun. We played fetch around a bonfire and munched on virtual marshmallows. Pork Bun was so charming that, when I had to choose between protecting Pork Bun or saving the human race from extinction, I tacitly left planet Earth …

Oculus ignited people’s interest in virtual reality when it announced a Kickstarter for the Rift headset in 2012, promising high quality VR for $300.  Fast-forward seven years, after a more than $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and the 2016 release of the Rift, and Oculus is preparing to launch its next-generation VR headsets.  They’re called the Oculus Quest and the …

Facebook has two new VR headsets coming May 21: one is the Oculus Rift S, a new version of the PC-connected Oculus Rift that adds self-contained tracking, a higher-res display and a new design. But there’s also the Oculus Quest, a totally new standalone, self-contained mobile VR system that’s going to arrive at the very same time… for the very same …

Want to sync notifications from your Android-based phone to your Windows 10 system? The feature is well and truly on its way. Notification syncing is already rolling out to Windows Insiders — that’s the prerelease testing program — which means it will be available to the rest of us relatively soon. Vishnu Nath, Director of Program Management for Microsoft Mobile …

Before, it was annoying. Now, it’s useless. Microsoft has admitted that one of the great scourges of our time, the password reset rule, is bunk. “When humans are assigned or forced to create passwords that are hard to remember, too often they’ll write them down where others can see them,” Microsoft’s Aaron Margosis said in a blog post Wednesday. Worse, Margosis wrote, …

A four-day sale at Best Buy started on Wednesday and runs through Saturday. (Fine print: It ends Saturday, April 28 at 11:59 p.m. CT — that’s 9:59 p.m. PT or the wee hours on Sunday in the East.) A large swath of products are included in the sale, from TVs and tablets to laptops and hard drives. Best Buy constantly …

Google’s Calendar offers crazy powerful search, letting you find names, locations and events you’ve added to your calendar events. Now, in the Calendar app on Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon), you can now perform similar searches and hunt for events, names, locations and more. You can search through old and upcoming events by name, location and words that are part …

Almost a year ago, Microsoft debuted its whizzy Surface Hub 2, essentially a 50-inch Surface tablet designed specifically for collaborative office environments, but offered few details and only a “2019” availability date. Wednesday, the company announced that it will be available in June for $8,999, and we got a chance to see and interact with it. The Hub has clever …

Microsoft’s Outlook hack is worse than the company originally warned. Despite Microsoft’s initial notification to affected Outlook users on Friday, a follow-up statement added that hackers were able to read email content. The company first released a statement on Friday to Outlook users, notifying people that a hacker had had access to emails for months after stealing login credentials for …

In late March Apple announced Apple Arcade, a subscription service that allows Apple users to play games across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV devices. Back then Apple promised that 100 exclusive games would be playable out of the gate, games that wouldn’t be available on other subscription services or even other mobile devices. But it looks like that promise may cost them. Apple …