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Sony’s GSN Games has a pretty big idea that it’s letting out of the bag today. The prize game company’s Sparcade app will let you play classic arcade games like Pac-Man and Tetris on mobile devices and allow you to...

Microsoft today announced the release of version 1.2 of its free and open-source text editor Visual Studio Code. The current build for people participating in the Insider program for Visual Studio Code comes with the mos...

The cyberpunk style of Deus Ex is coming back with the upcoming August 23 release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The title coming from Square Enix is the sequel to Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which came out in 2011. It cont...

Switzerland emerges as a top European hub contender

At its 2016 OpenAir conference in San Francisco, Airbnb today announced the launch of third-party bookings — a way to simplify business travel. “This makes it really easy to book on a colleague’s behalf, and it cle...

Fintech, cloud services and mobile apps were hot topics at last week's RISE tech conference in Hong Kong, but one entrepreneur focused on an unfashionable industry the business world has all but left behind.

With one of the world’s biggest soccer tournaments about to get underway in France, the French government has launched a new mobile app to broadcast terrorism alerts and safety information to millions. Euro 2016 kicks ...

Some may think that streaming services are no longer the center of technological innovation in music. As a cooperatively-owned streaming platform that runs on the blockchain and pays artists directly and fairly, Resonate...

Google today announced a new Project Fi partner network: U.S. Cellular. The additional coverage will be automatically rolling out to all Fi users “over the coming weeks” — Fi will thus soon span three cellular prov...

Bungie wasn’t planning to drop the details on its next big release until tomorrow, but it let something slip early. Destiny: Rise of Iron is the upcoming expansion for the sci-fi shooter, and it’s coming to PlayStati...

If you could simulate anything in virtual reality … well, it would probably be sex. But the second or third thing might involve flying. How We Soar is a new, exclusive PlayStation VR game that enables players to fly ac...

Omnipresent online encyclopedia Wikipedia has received a large gift from the founder of another famous internet institution. Craig Newmark, the main man behind classifieds portal Craigslist, has donated $1 million to the...

Activision announced today that it will hold its second-ever Call of Duty XP fan event on September 2 and September 3. The event will include the finals for the Call of Duty World League, an esports event with more than ...

Strike while the game-sharing iron (or forge) is hot. Forge, which allows gamers to capture PC gameplay and then share it on sites like YouTube and Twitch, announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in Series A fund...

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. The company also announced it is holding another “Bug Bash” this month — just like in April, that means testers will see Quests inside the Feedb...

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The Deus Ex universe is expanding into mobile, as Square Enix is taking the wraps off of Deus Ex: Go. The announcement from the big Japanese game publisher and its Montreal studio, Square Enix Montreal, shows that the au...

The owner of hospice comes to appreciate the likely Democratic nominee for whom she is rather than merely for whom she is not.

PRESS RELEASE: The Red Cross and Halo Smart Labs, a technology company specializing in developing life-safety products, have expanded their global partnership following a successful pilot project in Nairobi, Kenya. The H...

Sometimes, removing your company's safety net can give your team the motivation to succeed.

Artificial augmentation of humans is the core flashpoint between the different factions in the sci-fi game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, coming on August 23. But mechanically augmented humans aren’t science fiction anymore...