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SAN FRANCISCO — Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston has announced that she’s taking a temporary leave of absence, stepping aside after 11 years of being a major part of the Silicon Valley startup program. Durin...

Amazon has hired nearly all of the people who worked at Orbeus, a small startup with technology for identifying items and people in photos and videos using deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence. Orbeus built a...

Car races are definitely fun to watch, but they’re certainly not very safe. So Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang announced today that the company is creating a self-driving race car with an Nvidia-based supercomput...

We’ve known for a long time that Microsoft’s Surface team is toying with the idea of building a premium smartphone. The latest rumor claimed such a device would arrive in the second half of 2016, but that timeframe h...

Intel, Shark Tank producer Mark Burnett, and TBS are launching a bid to take nerds into primetime. The television show America’s Greatest Makers debuts on Tuesday night, with 24 teams competing for a grand prize of $1 ...

Despite remaining significant to company performance, brand trust has suffered in the past several years, maybe even decades. Without that trust, consumers are less likely to purchase.

VB WEBINAR: What does it take to monetize over 2 million daily active users in 196 countries? Join Grindr CTO Lukas Sliwka and VB analyst Jon Cifuentes in a free webinar to get an inside scoop on how mobile app analytics...

PRESS RELEASE: Venktesh Shukla, Chairman of TiE Global, is joining Fenox Venture Capital as a General Partner to further strengthen its investment activities in Asia. Venktesh is a seasoned investor and serial entreprene...

If you are getting your HTC Vive soon, you’re gonna need some games. We’ve had a Vive (and some Vive Pre units) for a while now, and we’ve spent some time with several dozen games for HTC and Steam’s virtual real...

VB EVENT: LinkedIn’s head of consumer products Ryan Roslansky, speaking on stage at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit conference, explained how the company’s Lynda.com acquisition could allow it to redefine online educat...

Android Marshmallow is finally getting some love. After taking four months to hit 1 percent adoption and following Lollipop finally assuming the Android crown, the latest version of Android was the only one to gain share...

GUEST: It’s no secret that mobile is rapidly becoming the end-all-be-all in consumption. In fact, in 2015, nearly half of Google search traffic came from mobile devices. On average, Americans spend about five hours a d...

EXCLUSIVE: Both AT&T and Verizon already offer versions of LG’s G Pad X (at 10 and 8.3 inches, respectively), and now T-Mobile is poised to pick up the mid-range tablet as well, according to material shown to VentureBe...

There is something frighteningly adventurous about starting a business. But having to build the same business twice? That takes an almost other-worldly degree of grit, tenacity and resilience.

Bethesda held its own press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo for the first time ever last year, and the company has announced that it is returning to Los Angeles to do that once again in 2016. Bethesda wil...

Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said that deep learning artificial intelligence has become a new computing platform, and the company is dealing with hundreds of startups in the space that plan to take advantage of ...

It doesn't take a lot of capital to start a venture fund these days and with money shifting to venture in greater proportions, it is increasingly hard to identify funds to invest into.

Medical marijuana startup Meadow has raised $2.1 million in seed funding, a move it says will go to accelerate development of its Meadow Platform software suite and also hiring. Investors that participated in the round i...

Google today announced that this week it’s bringing the Reminders feature of Google Calendar — which first became available in the Google Calendar app for iOS and Android in December to the Web. Reminders were one of...

I’ve sampled some HTC Vive virtual reality games with a final production unit over the past week, and I’ve tried out more titles at preview events. The ones that really grab me are visceral shooting experiences that ...

Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang has ridden the game industry to glory in the graphics chip business. But now those chips are being used for more than just games. They’re supplying the computational power for deep...

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp today announced that it has turned on end-to-end encryption by default. That means content that people share, whether they be text messages, voice messages, photos, and videos, are n...