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Singapore’s Ministry of Education has advised teachers to stop using the po[CENSORED]r video conferencing application Zoom to conduct remote learning classes. This decision comes after a couple of “very serious incidents” were reported by the local media, including one where hackers shared indecent images, and a second case where unidentified men barged into an ongoing geography class with teenage girls and passed lewd comments. The move follows a similar decision by many schools across the United States, most of whom are switching to Microsoft Teams, and further bans from the governments of Germany and Taiwan on using Zoom for official meetings Zooming problems Singapore’s Ministry of Education (MOE) stated that it is, "currently investigating both breaches and will lodge a police report if warranted. As a precautionary measure, our teachers will suspend their use of Zoom until these security issues are ironed out.” The coronavirus-led lockdown has led Zoom to quickly become one of the most used and downloaded video conferencing software offerings around, with its easy to use interface and free accounts for schools making it po[CENSORED]r. However, multiple reports concerning data security, lack of end-to-end encryption, routing calls through China even for non-Chinese users and "Zoombombing" attacks have all caused a major dent in Zoom’s credibility. Even though Zoom’s CEO has publicly apologized for these vulnerabilities and has assured that the company will iron out these issues within 90 days, the company still faces a class-action lawsuit.

Intel’s 10th-gen Comet Lake desktop processors are set to be launched very soon, rumor has it, and we’ve caught a glimpse of some alleged retail prices for these next-gen CPUs courtesy of an online retailer. As highlighted by @momomo_us, a regular hardware leaker on Twitter, purported prices on a few Comet Lake chips have been spilled by DirectDial, a Canadian retailer (and so they are in Canadian dollars, of course).So the price for the Core i9-10900 is $679 CAD, which works out to be around $487 in US currency (about £390, AU$770). For the Core i7-10700K you’re looking at $585 CAD or around $419 (about £335, AU$660), and also listed is the Core i7-10700 which is pitched at $506 CAD or around $363 (about £290, AU$575). AMD matchup We can also compare these prices to how much DirectDial charges for rival Ryzen 3000 chips. And in this case, let’s look at the Ryzen 9 3900X which DirectDial sells for $766 CAD or around $549 (about £440, AU$865) – you get 12-cores with that CPU compared to 10-cores with the Core i9-10900 at $679 CAD or $487 (about £390, AU$770). That’s not a bad comparison for Intel, mind – note further that the 10900 has a considerably lower TDP, too – but the potential issue is that you can find the 3900X much cheaper than this at other retailers, generally for around the $450 mark in the US. But of course, we can’t make that kind of comparison yet, based on these Canadian prices – and indeed we don’t know exactly how these chips will stack up performance-wise, either. Another comparison is the Core i7-10700 versus the Ryzen 3700X, a battle of the 8-core CPUs, with the latter priced at $492 CAD which is around $352 (about £280, AU$555), so slightly less than Intel’s offering by a few percent at DirectDial (at the time of writing). But again, as with the 3900X, the

McLaren has already started work on the ‘son of P1’ hypercar that will be the next model in its Ultimate Series after the Elva screenless barchetta. CEO Mike Flewitt has confirmed that we can expect to see the car in 2024, adding that it will be electrified. “We haven’t announced the powertrain,” Flewitt said during a telephone interview with Autocar after the cancellation of the Geneva motor show. “Obviously, looking forward, it will be either hybridised or an EV.” McLaren has already started work on the ‘son of P1’ hypercar that will be the next model in its Ultimate Series after the Elva screenless barchetta. CEO Mike Flewitt has confirmed that we can expect to see the car in 2024, adding that it will be electrified. “We haven’t announced the powertrain,” Flewitt said during a telephone interview with Autocar after the cancellation of the Geneva motor show. “Obviously, looking forward, it will be either hybridised or an EV.” However, Flewitt once again poured water on the idea of a track-focused model from McLaren going electric with current technology. “I like EVs,” he continued. “I’ve driven them a lot lately and for regular use. They’re responsive, refined and have incredible performance. But the charging times are really restrictive. “Take the 765LT as an example. We know a lot of customers are going to take that to the track. If it were an EV, you would be looking at maybe 30 minutes of running time and then plugging it in until the next day. That’s not a persuasive position.” Although Flewitt admitted that the specifications of forthcoming EV hypercars like the Lotus Evija and Pininfarina Battista are “incredible”, he insisted McLaren buyers focus on more than just numbers. He said: “We don’t build cars like that: pure 0-200kph or 0-300kph or even top speed. It’s not the car’s purpose, it’s a consequence of the attributes we’ve designed into it.” McLaren has already committed to an aggressive hybridisation of its line-up, with the plug-in hybrid replacement for the Sports Series coming first and then other models quickly following. Based on past conversations with insiders at McLaren, including Flewitt, Autocar believes the next P1 will use a split hybrid system with an electrically powered front axle. The rear will be powered by a regular petrol engine or a version of the hybridised V6 used by the new Sports Series.

The Keeping up with the Kardashians star made her huge fortune from her Kylie Cosmetics empire. Last March she overtook Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to top the Forbes annual billionaire list. Kylie has managed to maintain her substantial wealth, and in November 2019, she sold 51% of her beauty brand to Coty Inc. for $600 million (roughly over R10,8 billion). The deal, which wrapped up in January, now values her business at an estimated $1.2 billion (about R21,6 billion).The sale and still having a 49% share in the business enabled the 22-year-old reality star to retain her riches. Also appearing in the youngest billionaire list are Norwegian sisters Alexandra and Katharinan Andresen, aged 23 and 24 years old respectively, who inherited 42% each of their family-owned investment company Ferd.

Al Jazeera reports that a Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Vietnam has reported 262 Covid-19 cases, and no deaths so far, but as a result of a 15-day social distancing programme that began on March 31 many small businesses have been shuttered and thousands of people temporarily laid off from work. The machine distributes a 1.5kg bagful of rice from a small silo to waiting workers, many of whom are street sellers or people who earned a living from cash-in-hand jobs like housekeeping or selling lottery tickets. Hoang Tuan Anh, the businessman behind the idea, had initially donated a batch of smart doorbells to hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City before turning his technological expertise to food distribution. Similar "rice ATMs" have been set up in other big cities like Hanoi, Hue and Danang, according to state media. South Korea ‘assisting US’ South Korean firms will reportedly make their first shipment of coronavirus tests to the United States this week after a request by US President Donald Trump, AFP reports. The US has more confirmed Covid-19 cases than anywhere else in the world and also has the highest toll, with more than 22 000 deaths. In contrast South Korea was once the hardest-hit country outside China, but appears to have brought its outbreak under control with a huge "trace, test and treat" strategy. The country has tested more than half a million people in a process free to anyone referred by doctors or those who have links to a confirmed case. The Trump administration has been accused of being slow to respond to the outbreak, although the president now regularly re-iterates that the US has tested more individuals than any other country. After a phone conversation with him last month, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Trump had asked for test kits.

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Almost all cars reckoned to be true pioneers turn out to be nothing of the sort. The Range Rover wasn’t the first luxury off-roader, the Renault Espace wasn’t the first MPV, the Volkswagen Golf GTI wasn’t the first hot hatch and none of the Saab 99, Porsche 911 or BMW 2002 was the first turbocharged road car. And the Audi Quattro wasn’t the first high-performance four-wheel-drive car. That, of course, was the Jensen FF produced between 1968 and 1971. But like all of the aforementioned, the Quattro was the one that perfected and po[CENSORED]rised its innovation. The problem with all previous four-wheel-drive cars, Jensen included, was that they needed to direct their power forwards through a heavy, clunky and bulky transfer box. This solution was impractical and expensive, which perhaps explains in part why just 320 FFs were built. What Audi did was find another way of doing the same thing. It was Jörg Bensinger who realised that if you used a hollow output shaft from the gearbox, it could run into a centre differential mounted behind the gearbox, while a second shaft within the output shaft could then take the power forward to the front wheels. The need for a transfer box was bypassed and the first modern four-wheel drive system invented. Bensinger and his team started work on this in the mid-1970s, but it wouldn’t be until 1980 that the fruits of their labour could be seen in public, in the form of a boxy coupé called the Audi Quattro. Since then, Audi has never stopped using four-wheel drive, and it has now been joined by most of the world’s other major car manufacturers. But for Audi, four-wheel drive proved far more than just a means of halving the tractive work load of each tyre. Quattro started life as a car, soon became an automotive legend and then turned into a sub-brand, to Audi what M is to BMW and AMG is to Mercedes-Benz.

Sophie Turner loves being in quarantine with her husband Joe Jonas, but he is having a bit of a difficult time with it. The Game of Thrones star who is reportedly expecting her first child is abiding by social distancing regulations and admits she thinks it's great to spend so much time in her own grounding. Speaking to Conan O'Brien on Conan at Home, she says she is loving quarantine as she is an introvert and a homebody."I see how people are finding it difficult, but I don't understand how people are really struggling to practice social distancing," she says.

Brazilian health officials confirmed the first case of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, among the remote Yanomami tribe in the Amazon. Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said at a press conference on Wednesday that a 15-year-old boy from the indigenous tribe has tested positive for the disease. Mandetta said that the case was "worrying," particularly because of the remote community's separation from the outside world. According to Brazilian newspaper Globo, the boy was admitted to the intensive care unit at a hospital in Roraima, Brazil's northernmost state located in the Amazon region, on April 3. He reported shortness of breath, fever, chest pain, and sore throat. According to Globo, the boy first tested negative for the disease but later tested positive. He remains in the ICU.

Apple has deployed a supplemental update for the problematic macOS Catalina 10.15.4, fixing some issues – albeit not the most pressing ones, and the worrying thing is, we’ve seen multiple reports popping up online of this update causing fresh problems, from failing to install, to allegedly bricking machines. This certainly seems like echoes of what we’ve seen in recent times with Microsoft badly fumbling updates for Windows 10, with fixes being applied, but introducing further new problems post-installation.As spotted by 9 to 5 Mac, Apple says that the macOS Catalina 10.15.4 supplemental update improves the “stability, reliability, and security of your Mac”, as well as introducing some specific fixes. Bricking Macs? Obviously those are very useful fixes, even if they aren’t the solutions that some folks are more desperately clamoring for going by online posts across various forums. However, scanning across those threads, there’s another more worrying specter – and that’s reports of this new supplemental update causing serious issues of its own, as we mentioned at the outset. One 9 to 5 Mac reader observed that it killed a 2016 MacBook – apparently it won’t even power up – and the update also had problems with a 2012 Mac Mini, which ran ‘insanely slow’ when it eventually finished installing, requiring a restore from Time Machine. Hopping over to Apple Insider’s forum, there are reports that “this one borked my 2012 iMac”, and the update also allegedly bricked a 2018 13-inch MacBook and a 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro.

I've seen a lot of graphics card deals in recent weeks, and most of the good ones have been discounts on our recommended GeForce RTX cards. If you're interested in upgrading to Nvidia's real-time ray tracing line, here's another one: Gigabyte's GeForce RTX 2070 Super Windforce OC 3X is on sale for $459.99 on eBay, where it's being sold by Newegg. This same card was a decent deal three weeks ago when it was on sale for $479.99, and is an even better one now. You're saving $40 off the card's list price. While I have not played with this specific SKU, in general, I've been happy with Gigabyte's Windforce coolers. In my experience, they do a tremendous job at keeping temps in check without being noisy. As for the GPU, the RTX 2070 Super is a great choice for gaming at 1440p. You can even crank things up to 4K if you have a 4K monitor, though more demanding games will dip below 60 fps—Jarred saw a playable average of 50 fps across 11 different games when he reviewed the RTX 2070 Super. Nvidia and AMD will be launching new cards later this year, but if you're in need of an upgrade right now, this a good deal for now.

Two years ago, Lamborghini had officially opened its showroom floors in Cape Town. It was such a prestigious affair that even Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. CEO Stefano Domenicali was in attendance, along with the local CEO, Toby Venter. The event also marked the local debut of the world's first Super SUV, and the automaker's first offering into the segment, the Urus. As a Lambo fan from yesteryear, I was in awe to be in the presence of this beautiful beast on the showroom floor in Century City. Yet, it would be another 18 months before I would have the privilege of getting behind its wheel in the refreshed model launched in SA earlier in March. And if you perhaps don't know, Lamborghini says the name is derived from the anchor of the Zodiac, Taurus, the god of the bulls. Urus is just a contraction thereof. Lamborghini said at the time of its Urus debut: "The Urus is a visionary approach based on the infusion of the Lamborghini DNA into a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). But let's put that size in perspective for a moment. The Urus has a curb weight of just less than 2200kg, yet it has a sprint time from zero to 100km/h in only 3.6 seconds. That's a whole lot faster than some people would manage to pronounce Lamborghini Urus correctly. And, it goes to 200km/h in only 12.8 seconds, it also has a claimed top speed of 305km/h.

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez's wedding has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic "a little bit". The 50-year-old singer revealed they have shifted plans while speaking on Ellen DeGeneres' at home talk show, after Ellen suggested JLo had been planning to walk down the aisle any day now. On the show the Hustler's star says, "Honestly, I don't know what's going to happen as far as dates or anything like that." JLo didn't go into further details about the original date for the wedding but it was previously reported that it had been scheduled for this coming season

New benchmarks have appeared that apparently show an early engineering sample of the Intel Core i7-1185G7, an 11th generation 10nm Tiger Lake CPU. According to the leaked benchmarks, which were posted on Twitter by several users who are well known for their accurate component leaks, the Intel Core i7-1185G7 is a quad-core processor based on Intel’s 10nm Tiger Lake architecture. Specs The Intel Core i7-1185G7 looks set to replace the Intel Core i7-1065G7, a laptop CPU released in 2019. According to the benchmarks, the Intel Core i7-1185G7 comes with four cores and eight threads, and is locked at 3GHz. Of course, it bears repeating that this is all unconfirmed at the moment, and if real, is based on an early engineering sample, so the final specs could very well be different when the CPU releases. According to the benchmark results, the Intel Core i7-1185G7 is installed in a test machine with 16GB of DDR4 RAM and a 128GB SSD. It seems like there’s no discrete GPU installed, so the processor is using its integrated Xe GPU. The benchmark used is the po[CENSORED]r 3DMark Time Spy test, and it shows the processor scoring 1,296 points in the graphics test, which as Wccftech points out, is around 5% faster than the AMD Ryzen 4800U, a laptop processor from Intel’s main rival.

Before we get into the winner of the award, the World Car Awards organisers and the 86 jurors from around the world recognise the widespread impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and extend their condolences to all those affected. The Road to the 2020 World Car Awards concluded April 8 with the declaration of a double win for Kia. The Korean carmaker's eight-seater Telluride is the 2020 World Car of the Year. The Telluride is powered by a 3.8-litre V6 engine with 216kW and 355Nm and features all-wheel drive, it's the largest model in the company's line-up, above the Sorento. The first time Kia or any South Korean carmaker has won the award. The Telluride is sold in North America (US and Canada), Russia and South Korea. The Telluride beat out the other finalists, the Mazda 3 and Mazda CX-30. Kia's second win came in the World Urban Car catergory, where the Soul EV scooped the prize. How the process works Vehicles were selected and voted on by an international jury panel comprising 86 prominent automotive journalists from 24 countries around the world. Each juror was appointed by the World Car Steering Committee on the basis of his or her expertise, experience, credibility, and influence. The international accounting firm KPMG tabulated the jurors’ ballots. There were several stops along the road for the 2020 program, including one in Los Angeles in November for our sixth annual L.A. Test Drives event hosted by ZF. Then, the World Car Finals were launched live in New Delhi, India from the

Head of design Max Missoni told Autocar that, although a production version of the Precept has not been confirmed, it will have an influence on the Polestar 3, which is expected to arrive in 2021. “The design language of that car is something that you can and should expect in our future cars, starting with the Polestar 3,” he said. Missoni further hinted at the 3’s billing as a sleek, minimalist Tesla Model X rival, adding: “Our next car will be a performance SUV, the Polestar 3, and that will carry some of the features and design cues that you’ve seen in the Precept.” The 3, which will follow the 1 plug-in hybrid coupé and 2 fastback, could therefore be expected to continue Polestar’s design departure from parent company Volvo, with an aerodynamically focussed profile, a pointed front end and a wraparound tail-light bar among its most prominent features. “We’re really keen on keeping a minimalistic surface to things, keeping things extremely pure and clear,” Missoni said, suggesting that the 3 will feature a modern, simple interior like that of the 2, which eschews traditional buttons and switches in favour of a large central touchscreen. Despite likely riding significantly higher and weighing more than the current Polestar production cars, the 3 will stay true to the brand's premium performance values and aim to deliver pleasing dynamics. “We want the cars to be performance cars, not only from 0-60mph but [also] great driver’s cars with good driving dynamics,” Missoni said. “All of our cars, especially with the performance pack, will fulfil some of those desires.”

The head of a top Russian research centre has told President Vladimir Putin that his lab was ready to start human trials of experimental coronavirus vaccines in June, AFP reports. Rinat Maksyutov, head of the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Centre, said his facility proposed first-phase clinical trials of three vaccines from June 29, on 180 volunteers. Maksyutov was speaking during a video-link meeting between Putin and the heads of top research centres. "Groups of volunteers have already been formed," he told Putin, adding that a lot of people wanted to take part in the trials. "We have already received more than 300 applications." Maksyutov said scientists at the top-secret lab complex located in Koltsovo outside the Siberian city of Novosibirsk had developed several prototype vaccines. Tests were currently underway on mice, rabbits and other animals to determine the most promising by 30 April, he said. Vektor planned pre-clinical studies by 22 June before launching the testing in humans, Maksyutov added. But the first human trials could begin in May "if the health ministry allows it". Russia on Tuesday reported 7 497 coronavirus cases and 58 deaths. Africa’s biggest airline loses big during lockdowns Ethiopian Airlines is already bracing for income loss of half a billion dollars and has axed most of its scheduled passenger flights, but is turning to cargo and charter operations to soften the blow, AFP has reported. "As we speak, Ethiopian Airlines has lost a revenue of $550 million including April," the airline’s CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam, told a press conference, adding that the company faced "a serious financial, operational and commercial crisis". In recent weeks Africa's biggest carrier has distributed medical equipment across the continent, repatriated US Peace Corps volunteers stranded overseas and evacuated cruise ship employees from the US to their homes in Asia, Tewolde said. Tewolde said the company would try to take advantage of demand for cargo operations - including for medical supplies - and would even remove seats from passenger jets, though he acknowledged that cargo accounts for only 15 percent of its revenue. Ethiopian Airlines continues to fly to 19 passenger destinations, down from 110. Boris Johnson ‘in good spirits’ UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still in intensive care but is “in good spirits”, AFP reports.

Windows 10’s incoming major update for the first half of 2020 will usher in a new system of notifications for updates which represents a better way of informing users that an upgrade is ready for their PC. Windows 10 May 2020 Update (as it will be named, according to the rumor mill – it’s known as version 2004 currently) has a shiny new notification which pops up in the Action Center, informing you that an update is ready for installation, and giving you three options pertaining to that upgrade. You can ‘Restart Now’ to install the update there and then, or choose to ‘Restart Tonight’ if you want to delay the installation until later on that day. Alternatively, there’s a third option to ‘Choose an Hour’ which allows you to schedule the update for an exact time. Important reminder The streamlined notification in the Action Center is a handy addition, and of course the reminder to notebook users may well be, too. It’s important to ensure that your laptop is plugged in, just in case the battery level is low – because if the machine was to turn itself off mid-update, that could cause serious problems with Windows 10 (you might even be looking at having to reinstall the OS in the worst-case scenario).

AMD has pulled the plug on its StoreMI technology, the drive caching technology that it gave away free with 400-series motherboards. Support actually ended on the 31st March, which means you can no longer download the tool from AMD's site. You can keep using it if you've already downloaded it (obviously), although AMD offers no technical or end user support from now, which isn't ideal. There is a replacement on the way at least. "AMD will focus its internal development resources on a replacement solution with a rearchitected feature set and a planned release window of 2Q20." AMD stated in its Product Change Advisory. The advisory continues, "Those seeking a storage acceleration solution after March 31, 2020 may wait for the new AMD solution, or may seek an alternative solution such as Enmotus FuzeDrive." Enmotus worked with AMD to produce StoreMI. If you visit this page on the Enmotus site, you'll discover that it is offering free technical support for AMD users of the StoreMI until the 15th May, which could indicate the day on which AMD's replacement comes out. I built a system around StoreMI when it was introduced a couple of years ago in response to Intel's Optane caching system, with the release of AMD's Zen+ CPUs, and it worked well. The idea is certainly promising enough—combine the performance of an SSD with the capacity of a traditional hard drive to get lots of speedy storage. It takes a while for the caching to kick in, but once it does it seems to deliver on the promise.

However, four years is a long time, and it’s fair to say that the F-Pace has since been overtaken by newer rivals in buyers’ affections. No worries; that only means prices of used ones are a little softer than they once were, making this classy, stylish, roomy, well-equipped and, above all, funto-drive SUV even more attractive. There’s a version for most appetites and budgets, from an entry-level, rear-wheel-drive diesel to a full-on supercharged 5.0-litre V8 SVR. The diesels make the most sense, although they aren’t as economical as you might expect. Apart from the least powerful one, they have four-wheel drive, but the system runs in rear-wheel mode most of the time. The mid-range 178bhp unit is the most plentiful and, for its blend of value and performance, rightly so. However, if you want more of the latter, check out the 3.0 V6. Diesel versions of the F-Pace eas The 2.0-litre engine is a sweet and responsive thing that, being lighter than the equivalent diesel units, doesn’t load up the car’s nose as much in corners. The 3.0-litre is a blast, but you’ll pay for it at the pumps. Jaguar F-Pace 5.0 Supercharged V8 SVR: Searingly quick, beautifully composed at speed and remarkably refined, this performance SUV ranks among the best. Shame its 22in alloys spoil the low-speed ride. Ones we found 2016 2.0d 180 Prestige RWD, 60,000 miles, £17,500 2017 2.0d 240 R-Sport AWD auto, 48,000 miles, £26,950 2018 2.0i 250 Portfolio AWD auto, 28,000 miles, £35,000 2019 3.0d 300 V6 S AWD auto, 15,000 miles, £40,000

After weeks of bleak headlines, a handful of European nations - Italy, Spain, and France - on Sunday reported a drop in coronavirus death tolls. Italy has the highest death toll of any country impacted by the coronavirus. At least 15 889 people are dead as of Sunday, up from 15 364 on Saturday - an increase of 525 deaths, which is the country's smallest increase in daily deaths since March 19. Sunday also marks the third day of declines in Italy's fatalities, following 766 deaths on Friday and 681 on Saturday, according to statistics website Worldometer. The number of new cases also fell from 4 805 on Saturday to 4 316 on Sunday, bumping up the total caseload to 128 948. Conte put the country of 60 million residents on lockdown on March 10, and then proceeded to restrict movement even internally. People have been ordered to stay home, but those who emerge for work or essential business, including going to grocery stores or pharmacies, have to cover their noses and mouths. Since the lockdown was imposed, Italian police officers have fined more than 175 000 people for violating the rules 'Stay home as much possible' Meanwhile, Spain, the second-worst-hit country with a caseload of 130 759 and 12 418 deaths, also saw a drop in daily coronavirus deaths for the fourth consecutive day. This means 674 people died on Sunday, compared to 749 on Saturday, 850 on Friday, and 961 on Thursday, Worldometer shows. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez introduced a two-week lockdown on March 14, which was first extended to April 11 and then April 25 as the country struggled to cope with an escalation in Covid-19 cases, Bloomberg said. Similar data came out of France as well. At least 90 864 French residents have tested positive for the coronavirus and 7 575 are dead. The nation's death toll went up by 518 on Sunday, but that jump is a sharp drop from previous days. Based on Worldometer, France confirmed 1 355 deaths on Thursday, 1 120 on Friday, and 1 053 on Saturday. As is the case in other parts of Europe, France went on lockdown on March 17. Although initially mandated for 15 days, the stay-at-home order will remain in place through April 15. Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said that a second extension is likely, France 24 reported. Moreover, he said, "it is likely that we are not going to see an end to confinement that would happen in one move everywhere and for everyone."

Valve updated its Steam hardware survey with a fresh set of numbers for the month of March, and it includes a more accurate accounting of VR headsets than in months past. According to the update, 1.29 percent of Steam users own a VR headset of some kind. That translates to more than 1 million VR headsets, which is a conservative estimate—Valved announced in April 2019 that Steam had grown to 90 million active users (and 1 billion accounts). Depending on how many active Steam accounts there are now, the number of Steam users with a VR headset could be a couple hundred thousand higher. The caveat is we don't know how many users actually fill out the hardware survey, or how representative it is of the Steam userbase as a whole. Regardless, the latest data is the most accurate accounting of VR hardware on Steam to date. That's because Valve changed the way it collects that type of data. UploadVR says it received an email from Valve explaining that starting March 1, Steam started using records of any headset connected in the past month, rather than just scanning current USB devices.