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GUEST: With more than 12,500 patents, eight Nobel prizes, and a 140 year history of field-testing crazy ideas, no one should be surprised that AT&T would be an important player in artificial intelligence. "AT&T is a back...

Microsoft has announced a new Minecraft Marketplace is coming, allowing fans of the popular sandbox block-building game to purchase add-ons developed by third-party creators. Players have previously been able to buy digi...

Consciously building habits is crucial. Business leaders have lots of commitments to honor, to ourselves & others. But technology for habit formation is elusive. There's plenty of advice, but it's hard to adapt to our in...

GUEST: Bradford Cross, a founding partner at machine learning and big data venture capital fund DCVC, wrote an interesting post on his blog about the impending end to today’s bots hype period, including one section cal...

Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced an enhancement to its Database Migration Service (DMS). Now people can move their databases kept in the open source NoSQL database MongoDB in...

Christopher Cabrera, founder and CEO of Xactly, the $95.5 million (2017 sales) tech company that provides cloud-based software to calculate payments for commission-earning employees, could be described as a reluctant ent...

This article debuts an occasional series, High Tech in the Heartland, that explores the relationship between Silicon Valley and the rest of America. This is not a postcard from the future: Picture a tech company’s 100t...

High Tech in the Heartland is an occasional series exploring the relationship between Silicon Valley and the rest of America. The 2016 presidential election laid bare a chasm between technology companies and the rest of ...

Something is going wrong over at Blizzard. Players are unable to log into the company’s online games, which includes hits like Overwatch and Hearthstone. This is especially bad timing for the digital card game leader, ...

IRS CI recently released their 2016 annual report. The report tries to put the best face on the continually diminishing number of Investigations. The investigations initiated are only a portion of the story.

An old-school Soviet-style propaganda poster from the new Ministry of Alternative Facts. Cartoon by Kirk Anderson.

Overwatch is potentially getting a new event, according to a leaked video. Blizzard Entertainment started teasing a new update recently, and now we have a better idea of what that is thanks to a video that PlayStation ha...

PRESS RELEASE: SitterFriends announced today that entrepreneur Prem Jain has joined the soon to launch new company, as Investor and Advisor. Jain, formerly of Cisco, is well known for his many contributions in the semico...

Twitter is giving brands a bit more creative freedom when it comes to live video. The company announced the launch of Custom Hearts, a program whereby broadcasters will be able to customize the hearts within their Perisc...

UCSF brain researcher Adam Gazzaley will moderate a fireside chat with science fiction writer Rob reid at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. They’re a great example...

LeEco, a Chinese company that sells content streaming services as well as phones and other hardware, today said that it will not be acquiring smart TV maker Vizio after all. LeEco public relations emailed a statement to ...

Lyft is adding The Weather Channel to its growing list of third-party app integrations. You can now request a ride through the weather app, but initially only if you’re using a Samsung device. This integration syncs yo...

Like many game developers, Theresa Duringer is a board game fanatic, and so she jumped at the chance to turn one of her favorite strategy card games, Race for the Galaxy, into an iOS and Android game. Duringer’s Temple...

Your diet can directly impact things like productivity and focus. Are you being smart with your diet?

One of the most recognizable teams in esports is preparing to expand. Fnatic, which is a coalition of pro gaming teams that compete in League of Legends, Counter-Strike, Dota 2, and more, has raised $7 million in a new r...

Inspiration comes from many places, and in the case of Denis Galanin, a lone Russian game developer, it came from literature. After years of development, Galanin and Germany’s Daedalic Entertainment have published The ...

The Elder Scrolls Online is holding an open house, and everyone is invited. Betheda will offer a free play week for its massively multiplayer online role-playing game across all of its platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One,...