Silicon Valley Money Floods to Hillary After Facebook Fat Cat Revealed as Secret Trumpkin and other top stories.

• Silicon Valley Money Floods to Hillary After Facebook Fat Cat Revealed as Secret Trumpkin

  

  The Daily Beast revealed Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey as a Trump “shitposting” sugar daddy. Now the Virtual Reality community is coming out hard for Hillary Clinton.Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Oculus Rift developers are donating to Hillary Clinton in direct response to news that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is backing a political action group pushing “shitposts” on behalf of Donald Trump.Some developers are even pulling support for the Oculus Rift and refusing to continue game developm..

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• Google's self-driving car is the victim in a serious crash

  

  Google will likely shed full detail on the collision in its self-driving car report due at the end of the month. It makes no bones about what happened in a statement, though (see below). The Lexus didn't enter the intersection until "at least" 6 seconds after its traffic light turned green. There was no question that the van driver was at fault, in other words. Google also stressed that red light violations are the "leading cause" of car crashes in US cities, and that 94 percent of those ar..

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• Chromebooks now have an easy time running Android apps

  

  It's not certain which systems are coming next, although we'd expect the late Chromebook Pixel 2 to be next in line given that it's the only one listed as supporting Android apps in beta Chrome OS releases. Almost all other compatible devices (including machines from HP, Lenovo and Samsung) are still waiting for their turn. But hey, it's a step in the right direction -- you're that much closer to running your favorite phone apps from the comfort of your PC.

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• Not Every Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Reported Was True: 26 Of Them Were False

  

  The series of exploding Galaxy Note 7 units hit Samsung hard, but according to the company, it received 26 false reports. Considering the markets affected by the recall, this shouldn't come as much of a surprise, and it's a safe bet to assume that in such events, there are almost always going to be a couple of unscrupulous consumers who are out to stir the pot for the heck of it, get a cash settlement from a lawsuit or a free smartphone, at the very least. The False Reports Of The Exploding Gal..

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• These Photos Prove The iPhone 7 Plus Doesn't Take Better Pictures Than LG V20 Or Huawei P9 Plus

  

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• Why Salesforce might be interested in Twitter

  

  Rumors were flying all day yesterday that Twitter is up for sale, and Salesforce.com could be a chief suitor. At this point, with so many possible bidders being reported, it’s hard to know what’s going to happen (if anything). But the big question for many is why Salesforce would even be interested in the consumer-facing social network. While nobody could say with certainty that the deal would happen, most of the industry experts we spoke to believe that if Salesforce were to win this deal, Tw..

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