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I’ve never worked in an office with cubicles and other people before, so I’ve never played hockey in the hallway with broomsticks and an old bagel before. But now one developer is mashing up office games, Overwatch, ...

Recent technological developments have expanded the potential of technology to enhance language learning. Despite the fact that the measurable impact of technological tools on language learning outcomes is inconclusive, ...

New crowdfunding rules allowing the sale of securities created a new market in 2016. Experts and practitioners provide feedback on the 2012 JOBS Act and Regulation Crowdfunding.

Entire dev. teams, w/ significant experience (2-3 yrs+) working together, are leaving giant tech companies to found startups. These teams are typically funded quickly and their rounds are oversubscribed. How do angels ac...

The ability to effectively confront a staff member is a skill that no leader really wants to develop. But in order to be a great leader and employer, it's a critical talents for you to master. Here's a step-by-step guide...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans today to send two unnamed private citizens around the moon “late next year.” The two passengers “have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission,” a SpaceX press ...

Productivity app-maker Doist is trying to lure new customers over from the dark side by making it easier for Wunderlist users to jump ship. You may recall that Microsoft snapped up Wunderlist’s parent company — Germa...

Boston Dynamics, a robotics company that’s a subsidiary of X, a company under Alphabet right alongside Google, today shared a video showing off its latest Robot, called Handle. It moves around on two tire-like wheels, ...

Supreme Court arguments don't go well for North Carolina's law banning sex offenders from using social media.

GUEST: Human resources technology — leveraged by nearly every organization in some capacity — is changing rapidly, thanks to technological advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), semantic matching capabilities, ...

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, today announced that it has acquired Pocket, the startup that develops an app for saving articles and other content. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The Pocket code...

Twitch has an audience of millions of gamers, and now developers can sell games to those people right through the livestreaming video site. Amazon’s Twitch is getting ecommerce features that will enable developers and ...

Artist Iris Scott freed herself from the stress of working a day job by selling her oil finger paintings from an online gallery--a fast-growing approach for independent artists who want to make a good living.

Epic Games has undergone a shift in the past year or so, with a greater focus on smaller games that the company is self-publishing. Six of those games are in the works at the moment. The Raleigh, N.C.-based company annou...

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates digital card game expansion with dinosaurs. Blizzard announced today that the next expansion for its digital card game behemot...

In 2016, nearly 300 million new users adopted Android devices from emerging markets such as India, Brazil, and Indonesia. That helped mobile games on Google Play get better traction, according to a post by Paul Bankhead,...

Gaming and the fabled power of the cloud has had a checkered history. Game-streaming service OnLive has come and gone and Microsoft over-hyped the effect its Azure platform would have on Xbox One games, but that’s not ...

Survios is announcing today that its Raw Data virtual reality game is debuting on the Oculus Rift and Touch VR platform. And the Oculus players will be able to play together with HTC Vive VR headset owners in cross-platf...

As Netflix approaches 100 million subscribers around the planet, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings addressed that certain use of his company’s name in popular slang: “Some of the verb uses of Netflix are not from...

The world of men is about to get some more of that sweet nemesis-system action. Warner Bros. announced today that it is launching Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor (read GamesBeat’s review), t...

Human Dx, a semifinalist in the 100&Change competition, aims to build an open diagnostic system for patients, doctors and caregivers using clinical experience and other information contributed by physicians and researche...

EXCLUSIVE: Customer success management company Totango today launched a Slack bot named Zoe. Available in the Slack App Directory, Zoe facilitates team collaboration and uses natural language understanding to answer empl...