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(Reuters) – General Motors and Toyota officials will tell a U.S. House panel on Tuesday that automakers need changes to automotive safety rules to allow the deployment of self-driving cars on American roads. “Without...

It's been a while since we've had a World's Fair, but this might soon change. They've been redesigned as the "Worlds Fair Nano," and will be making their way across the states over the next few years. Here's what happens...

Cofounder of online dating app Coffee Meets Bagel discusses the importance of putting women in charge of their dating life, the company's partnership with People magazine's "Sexiest Doctor Alive" and what's new for Valen...

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Sólfar Studios has launched its ground-breaking Everest VR virtual reality climbing experience on the Oculus Rift and Touch platform. VR is going through its trough of disillusionment at the moment, but Everest VR could...

Most marketing strategies pay off with long-term investment and planning, but you can't keep dumping money into a strategy that isn't working. At what point do you cut your losses?

GUEST: When we asked dozens of venture capitalists where they see the most potential for applied artificial intelligence, they unanimously agreed on health care. Technology has already been used to incrementally improve ...

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Karen Anderson is changing the image of Calgary from "cowtown" to one of Canada's finest food cities. The self-proclaimed "momtrepreneur" started Alberta Food Tours, after having established a friend circle of farmers, c...

Facebook has announced plans to roll out an app for the biggest screen in your home so you can consume your favorite cat videos and long form content shared across the social network. A dedicated video app for the televi...

As conversational bots become more ubiquitous in our lives, we need to understand how to protect ourselves to keep our conversations safe from hackers.

The horror, the horror. Francis Ford Coppola’s film studio American Zoetrope and his game developers have canceled the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the Apocalypse Now PC game and have shifted their fundraising...

Nintendo hasn’t made a Game Boy Player-equivalent for its 3DS hardware that enables you to play those games on a television, so the company’s unofficial modding community is stepping up to do this. You can play your ...

Shaman’s reign of terror on Hearthstone may end even before the beginning of the next year of Standard. Blizzard announced today that it is changing some cards in a patch coming near the end of February. Hearthstone is...

Figuring out how many game jobs there are in the world is a laudable goal. But it’s easier said that done. I embarked on this task a while ago as part of a quest to figure out which regions of the world are most compet...

The U.S. video game industry consists of 2,457 companies that directly and indirectly support 220,000 jobs and generate $30.4 billion in revenue, based on 2015 data, according to a new report from the Entertainment Softw...

Google today is announcing the launch of Cloud Spanner, a new managed database service that people can use through the Google Cloud Platform. The service is an implementation of the Spanner software that Google documente...

After a healthy recalibration in 2016 — public markets bouncing back, valuations corrected, exit market improved — entrepreneurs and executives seem to have a more realistic outlook for 2017. However, as the U.S. tra...

Entrepreneurship and risk are a package deal, and launching a company as an LGBTQ person places yet another set of challenges on an already uncertain endeavor. LGBTQ entrepreneurs are joining forces to reduce barriers an...

The audiences and events for professional competitive gaming is going to continue its growth trajectory in 2017 and beyond, and this is going to lead to an influx of more cash. Esports will generate as much as $696 milli...

PewDiePie just lost three major financial sources because of anti-Semitic comments in his videos. Despite backtracking and apologising will this mean the end of his career? And if not...what comes next?

Disney’s Maker Studios and YouTube have severed ties with gaming influencer Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, after he posted nine videos with anti-Semitic images and jokes. The moves came after the Wall Street Jour...