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EXCLUSIVE: You'll be forgiven for not having heard of Afiniti, a Washington, D.C. company that may be the first pure-play artificial intelligence companies to file for an IPO since the big AI hype wave hit last year. Afi...

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs — this is the second build since finalizing the Creators Update. The Windows Subsystem for Linux has gained serial device support but there are no other new fea...

The fast and the furious? That’s the situation that comes to mind when your teen driver punches the accelerator on your new sedan … and you get furious. There’s no way to know if you loan out your car to someone fo...

Social is king. And there's no way to get there without great content. So what does great content look like? In a nutshell, it's something that offers your audience something they're actually into.

When you are an high level expert at something, we've found it's nearly impossible to explain how good you are through website copy.

The Switch is beating expectations. Research firm SuperData revealed today that its analysis shows that Nintendo has sold 2.4 million Switches during its first month of release. The home console/portable hybrid launched ...

If you rocking a Kaby Lake or Ryzen chip in your PC, it’s probably time to upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft will no longer push updates to your PC if you are running Windows 7 or 8.1 with the latest chips from Intel, A...

Phone video captured a United Airlines passenger being dragged off an airplane for refusing to be bumped after he had boarded. The airline said the flight was overbooked, highlighting the practice of selling the same sea...

Where the real problem arises is when the Fed starts raising interest rates in order to try to slow the economy's growth. This is nonsense and based on bad theory.

Apple is now permitted to test self-driving cars in California, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles site revealed today. The DMV’s autonomous vehicle tester program includes a total of 30 companies, among them T...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo discontinues the NES Classic Edition, someone is making a mechanical version of Pong, and Overwatch gets a new cooperative mode. Enjoy, and have a great we...

Fans of ship-to-ship space combat have helped a new game get closer to reality. Starfighter Inc. has reached its $150,000 crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter with about a day left. Starfigher Inc. is a player-vs.-player-bas...

Video can greatly enhance what you're already doing in content marketing, and you don't need fancy equipment or a videographer to benefit from this effective visual marketing tool.

The United States Navy officially banned e-cigarettes from its entire fleet of ships, subs, aircraft, and other heavy equipment earlier this week. The vaping ban had been under consideration since August 2016, after a do...

Last year, I started writing stories about the uncanny melding of science fiction, real-world technology, and games in mainstream entertainment such as HBO’s Westworld. The sci-fi in games and other entertainment used ...

In Episode 3 of business tech podcast Predicting Our Future, serial entrepreneur Andrew Weinreich speaks with Jen Carlile, Co-founder of Flux (the first spin-off company from Google X) about the world population crisis a...

This is the first in a series of live, honest posts during Bartaile's Kickstarter campaign.

Levi King, founder of Nav, says businesses are often just a little bit off from securing good financing. This can mean the difference between an expensive merchant cash advance and a mid-prime or prime loan, like an SBA ...

Don't let travel disrupt your sleep pattern - a little preparation will save you from having to start over.

France is 10 days away from the first round of voting to select its next president, and there appears to be a dead heat among four major candidates. With the race achingly tight, Facebook has launched a campaign to try t...

Copyblogger is the most influential content marketing blog in the world. Its parent company, Rainmaker Digital, serves more than 200,000 unique customers across its three brands and earns in excess of $12 million in annu...

Airbnb has closed its Russian subsidiary in a bid to simplify the company's operating structure across the globe, according to a report in business daily Kommersant earlier this week. The peer-to-peer accommodation renta...