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In its review of warranty policies, the FTC slams six companies for forcing consumers to use genuine parts or obtain service from an authorized partner to maintain their warranty coverage. The FTC said consumers should be allowed to use their devices with any peripherals, accessories, or software.

Facebook's reality has been plagued by questions on privacy and sharing, but it could turn to a brighter virtual reality with Oculus at F8 to appease users and developers. With Oculus, Facebook may give developers the tools to build virtual worlds without sounding the privacy alarm for consumers.

You won't find traditional roller coasters and games at China's new Oriental Science Fiction Valley amusement park. Instead, the theme park, which cost $470 million to develop, is powered by 35 virtual reality attractions, giving you an immersive experience and offers a glimpse at the future of amusement parks.

In an effort to protect its cable business, Comcast is wooing customers by giving them a boost in internet download speeds if they subscribe to a package that includes cable TV and internet. The move could be seen as an offensive as Comcast faces increasing threats from streaming services.

Despite Apple's insistence on keeping iOS and Mac OS separate, combining the two operating systems could result in a powerful, new MacBook. Apple could bring LTE and touchscreen support from iOS to create an always-on laptop that supports touch and pen inputs, opening the doors to more computing possibilities.

Add touchscreen as another way to interact with the environment using Microsoft's HoloLens mixed reality headset. Thanks to researchers at Microsoft Research, you can overlay a virtual touchscreen onto any flat surface while using HoloLens, giving you another way to visualize information and make inputs.

Apple is officially leaving the Wi-Fi router business and will stop making the AirPort base stations. The company will continue to sell remaining inventory of AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule models. Unless you're sold on the Apple AirPort brand, you may want to check out a mesh router instead.

Outside of cryptocurrency, IBM's use of blockchain in jewelry manufacturing will give greater transparency to this business and help consumers choose ethically sourced gems. Consumers will soon be able to scan a QR code using their smartphone to see the origins and manufacturing of their jewelry.

Even though Google had removed five ad blockers from its Chrome stores for using malicious code to harvest your browsing data, the lesson is to beware of fakes! These ad blockers, combined, generated more than 20 million downloads. Just remember to only download software from authors and sources you trust.

Newly discovered code reveals that Google could allow Chrome OS users to dual-boot into a secondary operating system. This potentially means that Pixelbook users could run Windows 10 in addition to Chrome OS, or Google could use the feature to allow users to test its unreleased Fuchsia OS prior to launch.

Thanks to a $1,000 price drop, the Porsche Design Book One is an affordable competitior to Microsoft's Surface Book. It's unclear what Porsche Design's plans are for its notebook, but the huge discount could signal a refreshed model is incoming, which could deliver even better performance and battery life.

An ethical data breach hunter may have stopped the leak of personal data from 48 million people from Localblox’s unsecured locker, but the fact that this data exists creates a new headache for Facebook. Localblox claims that it used data scraped from LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for its database.

Chrome users will have a little bit of extra protection when they surf the internet. Microsoft has brought its Windows Defender protection to Chrome as a browser extension in a bid to help users identify malicious websites and thwart phishing. Microsoft notes that Windows Defender is 99 percent effective.

Seeing ads on Facebook may be annoying, but the alternative could wind up costing you up to $168 per year. Even though Facebook hasn’t commented on its subscription plans, an analysis suggests that the feature could come as high as $14 per month, a pricey sum to pay for those of us accustomed to free.

Some 34 technology companies have signed the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, pledging to help keep the internet safe from cyberattacks and committing to not helping any government from carrying out attacks This may be the first step in creating a digital Geneva Convention, even if a few big names are missing from the list.

When you're shopping for your next laptop, don't forget to consider the venerable mouse! Even though your next notebook may come with its own touchpad, an external mouse can deliver more precise tracking, come with additional buttons for customization, and bring improved ergonomics.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman made a startling revelation that hate speech is permissible content on the site. Whether his recent admission will draw more racists hurling racial slurs to the site is yet to be seen, but protecting hate speech can result in more cases of cyberbullying and online harassment.

Facebook needs your help to secure your data and keep future elections fair. In an effort to prevent another Cambridge Analytica scandal potential meddling in elections, the newly announced Facebook Data Abuse Bounty will reward users who report any apps that maliciously collect and use data.

It’s still too early to tell if Chrome OS will replace Android on tablets, but with a new tablet mode, Chrome OS tablets will gain more touchscreen support. As Google focuses on touch, Chrome OS may not be as reliant on the keyboard and mouse for input in the future.

Better computer-generated graphics is helping self-driving cars learn to maneuver life-like roads under simulated conditions.

By leveraging GPUs, doctors can use machine learning and artificial intelligence to speed up disease diagnosis and create better scans of the human body.