Mojang will release Minecraft Boss Update with Add-Ons on October 18 and other top stories.

• Mojang will release Minecraft Boss Update with Add-Ons on October 18

  

  At the Minecon conference in Anaheim California, Mojang, the Microsoft-owned game developer behind Minecraft, announced today that on October 18 it will release the Boss Update for Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android and iOS and Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta. The update is notable because it includes Add-Ons, a new way for players to customize the appearance of animals and mobs by tinkering with JSON. Mojang first unveiled the Boss Update with Add-Ons at the E3 event in June. “They let you..

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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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• Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey's Support For Pro-Trump Trolls Angers VR Game Developers

  

  Many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and developers haven't taken too kindly to the news that Palmer Luckey — the 24-year-old co-founder of Oculus VR and creator of Oculus Rift — has been secretly backing a pro-Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and creating viral anti-Hillary Clinton memes.According to several media reports, Luckey's anti-Clinton stance and speculation over his possible association with the prominent alt-right spokesman Milo Yiannopoulos — who was recently banned from T..

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• Twitter needs to sell now or risk becoming another Yahoo

  

  Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, center, around the time of the Microsoft talks in 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Twitter, which was once a darling of the tech industry and went public almost three years ago in an eye-popping IPO, appears to be up for sale. We've seen this story with an internet company before. In fact, the parallels between Twitter and Yahoo are rather striking: A rotating cast of CEOs and executives with little direction; a powerful platform once s..

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• Samsung Electronics delays South Korea re-start of Note 7 sales by three d...

  

  SEOUL Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Sunday it was delaying the start of new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone sales in South Korea by three days to Oct. 1, a move it says is needed for speedy completion of the ongoing recall in the country. Samsung announced on Sept. 2 a recall of at least 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in 10 markets, including South Korea, due to a faulty battery causing the phones to catch fire, offering refunds or replacement devices using safe batteries. The ..

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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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