Released as version 3.1.5, Microsoft has released an update for its Windows Device Recovery Tool, including "bug fixes and improvements" to help Lumia 550, 950 and 950 XL users.

Some, not all, users have been sent a push notification to install this update, with others having to manually find the install path themselves. The Windows Device Recovery Tool is designed for users to roll back their OS to a previous version, often used in order to provide greater OS stability should an update take an unexpected negative turn.

If you haven't been given the update already, you can do so at the following auto-download link.

If you were wondering exactly how some Star Wars technologies may become feasible things in the real-world, Michigan State University has published another episode of its 'Chillin' with Chewie' series, aiming to explain Star Wars technological advancements to the public with the help of real life scientists.

While some technology in Star Wars may never come to light (pun intended), this series aims to cover many technologies ranging from real to fictional and from Carbonite to light sabers. With this educational tool further explaining a possible time frame for some of these cool technologies to become reality, it's a must watch for any Star Wars fan.

An article by Gizmodo pointed out that that this series explains that "TIE fighters' thrusters are a million times more powerful than anything we've ever developed," giving you an insight into some things you may learn by watching this series for yourself.

Last week Taylor Swift played the Sydney leg of her 1989 World Tour, seeing approximately 76,000 fans flock to the ANZ Stadium to enjoy one of the world's biggest artists in her prime. If you missed out on the action or want to re-live the experience, Taylor Swift has once again entered an Apple Music exclusive deal, offering this content solely to subscribers of this service.

Due to her pulling all content of Spotify, it seems that Taylor Swift and Apple Music have now become best buddies, offering up this new experience on December 21, local time.

While Taylor Swift is certainly one of the biggest artists on the globe right now, her sole streaming rights with Apple Music must be an extremely good deal to keep her around, seeing other services like Spotify and Rdio left in the dust.

A Twitter account with no profile photo and just over 2,000 followers called 'Cturt' has confirmed a Sony PlayStation 4 jailbreak success recently, telling the public that the "PS4 kernel exploit [is] finally working! Thanks to everyone involved!"

This jailbreak is said to enable a few interesting and helpful features, with CTurt explaining that this new breakthrough will enable users to "successfully dump RAM from other processes (like SceShellUI) using ptrace," further explaining that he will next be working on patching RAM.

While there is no posted guide, links or information as to how users can complete the same process on their consoles, there is a GitHub page of the same name, linked in the Twitter, where this information may surface in the near future. This news is exciting for developers looking at making custom firmware for the PlayStation 4, further opening up many other coding possibilities for community advancement of this device.

A recent hack and theft of Government files sent a US Government department into a frenzy in recent past, with further developments urging a spokesperson to inform the public that not every victim has or will be notified of this data breach just yet.

While the Government is meant to be notifying each victim of this breach from May 2014, around 7 percent of the 1.5 million people in danger are currently unable to be contacted. This is said to be due to them moving house or being without a Government-recorded address. Confirmed by the Office of Personnel Management, being the place that was hacked, this notification system is obviously not flawless.

The original hack was traced back to China but wasn't discovered or announced until one year after its occurrence, with the names, addresses, social security numbers and various other pieces of information about employees, contractors and job applicants being now in the hands of an unverified source.

The world of DayZ is already dangerous enough, but to make the challenge all that harder, the team has announced that predatory animals are making their way into the game.

The latest devblog has teased that wolves are coming, and just like the zombies in the game, wolves and other animals will try to attack you. But, if you're good enough you could capture these animals and cook them so that you can use them to your benefit. The devblog has added that non-perishable food is about to become very scarce, thanks to the introduction of growable food, and soon, animals.

Also, dirt bikes and traditional pedal-powered bikes are also making their way into the world of DayZ - which should be interesting, to say the least.

Due to the uncovering of some recent patents, more plans for the Nintendo NX have been revealed. This time around it's about the controller, revealing that a patent from June secured the rights for this technology giant to create a controller featuring virtual buttons on a touchscreen.

The image above makes the controller look something similar to a smartphone-emulated Nintendo title, with the NX controller being published on the US Patent and Trademark office website in the last 48 hours. The image above isn't an official release from Nintendo as it's a mock up of the patents laid down by Nintendo, but you could very well be looking at Nintendo's new poster child console controller as it stands in prototype form.

The official patent mentions holes for real control sticks, but will utilize touchscreen technology for the actual buttons. If you're wanting to look at the 'nitty-gritty' of the whole patent, head here.

If you want to make Fallout 4 look better, you might want to try out these insanely awesome looking mods - but if that makes you thirsty from all of those graphics, you'll want to buy a Nuka-Cola.

Fallout's official Twitter page has teased that a bottle of Nuka-Cola will cost $2.99, versus 50 caps in the game itself. If you've purchased Fallout 4 or the DLC season pass, you'll get your Nuka-Cola for free. Nuka-Cola Quantum IRL was introduced on November 10, but sold out incredibly quick.

Jones Soda makes Nuka-Cola, which is just a repackaged version of its berry lemonade flavor. As Polygon reports, "it does not completely restore all your health", so keep that in mind.

According to the latest rumors, Intel is positioning itself for a new NUC launch in Q1 2016. Intel has teased that the new NUC is "the most powerful NUC yet... now with Intel Iris Pro graphics" and that it's "coming Q1 2016".

Now, Q1 2016 is an interesting time frame because we have the Consumer Electronics Show kicking off in early January, but Computex is in Q3. As for the NUC itself, it should rock Iris Pro 580 graphics on the flagship Skull Canyon-based NUC. Intel's Iris Pro 580 graphics features 128MB of eDRAM (which acts as super-quick L4 cache) and houses the 72 Execution Units (EUs) on the die itself.

We're expecting the core clock on the chip to hit 1GHz, but it could change closer to release. If we put this into perspective, we're looking at similar graphics performance to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 750. The new Skull Canyon NUCs should sport Intel's Skylake-U series processors, replacing the Broadwell-U series parts in the current NUC lineup.

Google and NASA revealed on Wednesday that they've found a critical piece to the enigmatic puzzle of quantum computing that could usher in a new generation of ultra-efficient computers.

For the past two years, Google and NASA have combined their scientific might via the Quantum AI team to study the mechanics and possible advantages of quantum computing. It's taken quite a while, but the team has finally tapped the power of its D-Wave X2 system to demonstrate just how powerful quantum computing really is.

Using a processing called quantum annealing, the Quantum AI team was able to prove that the quantum computer not only works but represents tremendous gains over traditional problem-solving systems. The scientists discovered a new quantum annealing algorithm that processed and solved complex binary workloads over 100 million times faster (10^8) than methods simulated on single-core non-quantum computers. Essentially this means that Google's D-Wave X2 system can serve as a major tool to understand, define and experiment with the realm of nanoscale quantum computing.