A host in New York who rented her studio flat out to visitors via popular homestay network, AirBnB, has been fined for breaching city and state law. Although her lease might have permitted guests for up to 30 days, renting it out is another thing entirely. This move could be the first …

Castlevania is coming to TV screens around the world and it's going to have a gritty (maybe even sexy) Game of Thrones vibe, according to series producer Adi Shankar. The Netflix exclusive animation will be based on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and there are already two seasons booked and funded. Video …

Oculus VR isn't resting on its laurels when it comes to new and future virtual reality developments. In a number of image highlights from Mark Zuckerberg's recent visit to the Oculus Research labs, we were shown new hand-tracking gloves, new sensor technology and some of the in-house equipment Oculus has …

Microsoft is going to be changing the way Windows 10 looks, or at least empower application makers to do so. Project Neon is a currently unannounced feature that we all know is coming to Windows 10 and this week, during a developer day livestream, Microsoft inadvertently revealed it. We have seen …

It turns out PornHub isn't the only porn website helping to encourage sex education to U.S. citizens. Fellow nude-tube video site, xHamster has responded to the Utah state's rejection of opt-in, evidence-based, sexual education, by rerouting Utah visitors to its site, to its “The Box” series of sexual education videos on Youtube. …

With just eight teams in the Oceanic Challenger Series, it's hardly a packed pro-scene, but it's going to be even smaller for this year's series. Riot has banned 40 per cent of the players from the eight-team league, with many players sitting out for as long as a year for …

The facility at Samsung SDI which produced some of the batteries for the Note 7 smartphone that had difficulties with surprise combustion, has now itself caught fire. The factory blazed for a few hours, requiring 110 firefighters and 19 fire trucks to put out the flames as they raged at the Chinese …

A new piece of malware that specifically targets Mac operating systems has been discovered. Found in an infected Word file, when launched on a MacOS machine, the file automatically triggers a macro which can download an encrypted payload and begin running it on the user's system. Anyone who's been interested …

Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive's Blood Bowl 2 is getting a second edition, much like the original Blood Bowl and it's called, Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition. It's adding a number of new teams, new star players, a new stadium and the ability to pause. Like the last Legendary Edition …

After deeming the Daily Mail as “unreliable,” Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the publication as a source for the online encyclopaedia. This isn't something Wikipedia often engages in, and it still cites a number of often considered biased publications, like Fox News and Russia Today. “The Daily Mail’s reputation …

The virtual reality revolution isn't going quite as smoothly as Oculus VR predicted, as its parent company, Facebook, is set to close 200+ of the VR firm's demo stations around the U.S.. This comes amid reports that some of the demo stations would often sit for days at a time …

Pixelated images, ‘potato' cameras, and pictures deliberately blurred to hide people's faces, could become a thing of the past thanks to Google's latest algorithm development. The company's neural network can now take an image of just eight by eight pixels and use clever guesswork, to work its way back to …

In the ongoing race to attract the best software developers in America, Facebook has once again expanded its employee benefits to improve the lives of those with recent bereavements or sick relatives. Moving forward, anyone with a sick family member can take up to six weeks of paid leave to care …

One of the key moderators of Playpen, an infamous darknet child porn website, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The 47-year-old man from Kentucky will also face lifelong supervision once his prison sentence has ended. As the site's global moderator, he was in charge of deleting content that wasn't …

Starship Commander's debut trailer showcases a new and exciting way to play a game: using just your voice. In this story-driven, VR game, players take control of a new and advanced military space ship and must give commands to it and their compatriots out there in the inky black of …

The GSX 1000 amplifier is designed to not only boost your gaming volume and audio quality, but give you virtual 7.1 surround sound too.

Overclockers UK, HTC, XFX, Intel and Next Level Racing, have announced the second round of the VR Racing Series. They want virtual racers from all over the UK to come to OCUK's bespoke events over the next couple of months, to have a virtual try out which could lead to …

Uber has hired on on an ex-NASA engineer who previously developed concepts for personalised air vehicles, which could allow for an airborne taxi system. He will now begin work on Uber's flying car project, called Uber Elevate, which the company outlined in a white paper in October 2016. The idea …

The U.S.' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has created a new carrier-like crane system for catching drones mid-flight. This isn't like the eagles police have been training, but an aircraft carrier-like system of providing a safe ‘landing' point for drones to return to. This could expand the effective range …

While the British government continues to make it easier for law enforcement to view the internet history of its citizens, the U.S. House of Representatives is looking to make it more difficult. The House has passed a motion that if it makes it through the Senate, would require police to …

Following on from claims that fake-news had a large impact on the U.S. presidential elections, technology firms like Google and Facebook are taking steps to combat it in the lead up to the French elections in April. Together they've debuted a service called Cross Check, which when it goes live …

Our cousins across the pond celebrated their biggest ‘football' event this weekend and that means that the internet has largely ignored the results and spent a lot of time talking about the entertainment offered elsewhere during the game. The half-time show, for example, featured singer Lady Gaga doing her thing, …

In the aftermath of the massive recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone over issues with its batteries, South Korea has announced new rules to safeguard against such a problem in the future. Safety requirements and new regular inspections of manufacturing facilities will come into play in the near …

The Denuvo anti-tamper software company has taken another hit to its reputation over the weekend, where it was discovered that there was a leak in its private messaging system. That leak was discovered by hackers and lead to a number of messages from developers and the general public appearing online. …

A team of modders has developed a map for vanilla Minecraft, which is an entirely new, 3D Pokémon game. Called Pokémon Cobalt and Amethyst, the game has a battle system, random encounters, an overarching story, items to find and most importantly, 136 new Pokémon to discover, evolve and battle with. …

Possibly one of the most impactful online piracy cases ever began in earnest this week, with the legal representatives of alleged owner of KickassTorrents, Artem Vaulin, facing off against the U.S. government over four federal indictments. His lead lawyer, Ira Rothken, best known for defending Kim Dotcom, argued that torrents …

ASUS has been named as one of three hardware companies currently under investigation by the European Commission for potential anti-competitive practices. It is looking into whether ASUS, Denon and Marantz and Philips and Pioneer, restricted the pricing options of online retailers, forcing the cost of consumer electronics and other items, to …

The British government and its watchdogs are doing a poor job of protecting citizens and companies from online attacks, according to the public accounts committee. It also criticised a confusing system for reporting breaches, which painted an inconsistent picture of the current state of Britain's digital security. Despite cyber attacks …

Snapchat has released details of its plans for its initial public offering (IPO), which if successful as analysts claim, could see it valued at more than $25 billion. This would cement it as one of the world's leading technology firms and provide its founder, Evan Spiegel, with enough funds to …

They won't have rocket power in their rear, or be able to double jump and flip, but the upcoming range of “pull-back” racers inspired by Rocket League will be faithful to the original car designs. Zag toys is set to create 12 miniatures taken straight from the game, with a …