TECH WEEKEND

MARK Zuckerberg sees the future of Facebook in virtual reality. His company has just bought Oculus Rift for R21.38-billion. If you remember last week’s column, Oculus Rift is a piece of VR hardware that has been in the development phase for a good few years.

With news of the social network giant’s acquisition it seems likely that we will see some pretty nifty features being added to Facebook in the years ahead. Oculus Rift is a form of headgear that allows a person to experience a game or interactive software as if they were actually inside it.

With iPhones and Galaxies taking up all the shelf real estate it is a refreshing change to see that HTC has once again come to the party with a magnificent phone straight from the top drawer.

Featuring a beautiful aluminum body and a brilliant 5-inch display, the M8 runs on a powerful quadcore processor and Android KitKat.

Sophisticated features make the HTC One M8 an excellent smartphone choice for anyone but the most exacting photographer.

Pimp your Windows 8 Start Screen by downloading a nifty

character count.

With Oscar Pistorius’ trial gaining so much traction in the news it wasn’t long before people started asking the question – “how safe is my personal data”?

All devices have the facility to wipe said device clean. For people with the know-how, recovering any destroyed data is as easy as using data-recovery software on your computer. There are even programs people can use to automatically write a series of noughts and ones