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Game publisher Hitcents and media site Fusion have launched Rigged, a mobile game about gerrymandering political districts in order to steal elections. If anything, the free-to-play iOS and Android title is timely as the...

(Reuters) – An Apple Inc iTunes unit in Japan was ordered to pay some 12 billion yen ($118 million) in tax by local authorities after underreporting income, media reported Friday. The unit has since paid the amount, th...

The National Football League (NFL) has revealed the broadcast performance of the first Thursday Night Football game of the 2016 season. It said that the game was seen by a total of 48.1 million viewers on television, but...

Razer is for gamers, by gamers. The maker of gaming hardware is all about providing products for hardcore gamers, and it believes that the larger mainstream public will like those products as well. It’s just like Apple...

The Xbox One lineup got a complete overhaul in August, and this led to some big sales for Microsoft’s products. Xbox One was the top-selling console thanks to the launch of the Xbox One S redesign, but that revamp also...

GUEST: Bots may lack the initiative that true, fully realized AI promises, but this doesn’t mean that they aren’t useful to us right now. Day-to-day bots are taking over simpler functions and receiving plenty of pres...

The maker of camera-based vehicle sensor systems and Tesla have differing versions of why their relationship collapsed.

Credit Card Agreements: Profiles in Gibberish

Everyone knows that the real hero in that galaxy far, far away is a stout droid with the designation R2-D2. Now, Electronic Arts is giving players the chance to accurately portray that irrefutable fact. The publisher rel...

Right now, Facebook, Microsoft, and more than 170 companies across the bot landscape are trying to put software inside chat platforms. As bots become part of the biggest platforms on the planet, there's wide speculation ...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we look at an action role-playing game about burning books, Star Trek Online lets players 3D print their ships, and Sony updates the PlayStation 4’s user interfac...

Despite the old adage of "buyer beware", if a seller tries to hide facts from the buyer and they uncover it, say goodbye to the deal. This happens quite often in fact.

FEATURE: I don’t own a car. Living in New York, I don’t even have a license. But on Monday Ford’s autonomous car took me for a ten-minute ride on the calm streets of Dearborn, Michigan, where the 113-year-old motor...

Does your boyfriend act like a robot? Maybe he has his reasons. Cartoon by Shannon Wheeler.

EXCLUSIVE: In virtual reality apps, opt-in video ads work much better than pre-roll ads, according to a report by VR ad network Immersv. Emeryville-based Immersv said that opt-in video ads convert at a 37 percent higher ...

The U.S. Congress operates under two sets of rules, one for the House of Representatives and another for the Senate. The rules in the House are essentially designed to enable the majority party (now the Republicans) to p...

As a species we're probably not terribly good at predicting the future. To be more precise, we probably have a tendency to think life in ten years will look very much as it does today.

The Finest Automobile Auctions is aiming to lure a new generation of automobile connoisseurs who are more accustomed to buying things with the tap of a button than a raise of the paddle into the world of high-ticket, cla...

Brian Kahn talks about how the rule of law in particular is ensuring not just stability but growth in emerging markets in South Africa and across the continent.

Here’s a new twist on getting your keys copied at the hardware store. KeyMe has raised $15 million in funding to expand its key-copying kiosks, which enable you to save “digital copies” of keys in the cloud. KeyMe ...

Microsoft has been toying with bringing texting functionality to Windows 10 PCs for a while now, and the company is still trying to figure out the best approach. As promised, Microsoft has updated Skype Preview for Windo...

Video game designer Will Wright was fond of saying that a dog-eared copy of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash was the business plan for many Silicon Valley startups. That novel’s vision of the Metaverse inspire...