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In an update of the chat app Kik, starting today users can now make video calls with up to six people. "Video chat was the number-one feature you requested, and today, we're really excited to launch it on Kik," the compa...

A few months ago, Nyeeam (NYE-eem) Hudson, at the time ten years old, was playing in a park in New Jersey when another child started to relentlessly tease him about the outdated sneakers he was wearing. Now, encounters l...

VSCO, the startup behind an eponymous mobile app for making, editing, and sharing photos, today announced the availability of RAW support in its iOS app. Apple introduced RAW editing support in iOS 10, and now VSCO is ta...

Dishonored 2 wants you to play it again. Bethesda today announced a new update for its first-person stealth and assassination game. It adds a New Game Plus mode, which will enable players to go back through the campaign ...

On Friday, the Washington Post introduced a Chrome plugin that will automatically display commentary next to Donald Trump's tweets. Spearheaded by the Post's politics team at The Fix, the plugin provides context and fact...

As we digest the news today that Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe is stepping down from his role as CEO of the company and moving to head up the PC VR team, we asked Oculus whether Palmer Luckey would be staying with Face...

How she runs a social enterprise and a beauty brand at the same time.

Hemp and marijuana players fear the DEA has fired the first shot in a new legalization battle over CBD products.

Why aren't Chinese brands global, where other smaller countries have made a mark internationally?

Travel site Expedia released a bot for Skype today, and since it was made with the Microsoft Bot Framework, the bot will be converted to work with virtual assistant Cortana. Last week, Microsoft announced the launch of t...

Osterhout Design Group is going to China. The maker of augmented reality glasses has partnered with China Mobile’s Migu Video subsidiary to deploy ODG’s smartglasses in China. ODG makes AR smartglasses that can overl...

There are at least five technologies where you don't want to stash your cash: big software, cloud providers, hardware manufacturers, infrastructure consultancies and enterprise data base vendors. These are "declining" te...

Question:How is it already the holiday season? We can't believe that this week's episode of The Limit Does Not Exist is our last Cate and Christina episode of the year. We had a lot to catch up on inone tiny hour, and as...

Time is running out to get an NES Classic Edition before Christmas. If you still need one, you should plan on checking out Best Buy tomorrow. The retailer says that it will have a limited number of the throwback consoles...

Here's how the younger generation can make things better. They need our help.

As it turns out the idea of using bitcoins to have all these anonymous transactions might not have been the smartest thing that ever entered into some villainous brain.

GUEST: Chatbots hit a hot streak in 2016. It seemed like every week there was a new bot. Many of these bots faded as fast as they came on the scene. Most likely they weren't backed up with a proper business model, and ma...

SPONSORED: Presented by Undertone There's no dispute that so-called "programmatic" advertising tools have been a boon to digital marketers. With a few clicks, today's brands can send their ad messages to specific audienc...

Only 8% of people actually make their New Year's Resolution stick.. Here's how you can be one of them in 2017.

One in four children in New York City go hungry each day. While many city dwellers take for granted being able to order-in food a few times a week, there's a way to help the less fortunate from the comfort of your home. ...

Waymo, the autonomous car maker that was recently spun out of Google as a standalone company (operating under the Alphabet umbrella), has provided the first glimpse of its self-driving Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans. ...

Santa's elves aren't the only little creatures hopping around in anticipation of the holidays. There's a little inner defeatist popping up, with one goal--to make sure the coolest new ideas never make it to market.