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Microsoft’s biggest event of the year is upon us once again: Build 2017 is being held in Seattle from May 10 to May 12. You can stream the company’s developer conference here or watch via the embedded livestream belo...

Today Snap revealed that it now has 166 million daily users — 34 million fewer than Facebook’s Snapchat clone, Instagram Stories. Let’s recap how this happened: Facebook launched Instagram Stories in August 2016, a...

Which U.S. companies and organizations can brag about having the most highly motivated and satisfied employees? Statista and Forbes conducted a survey to find out.

Mara Bolis recently authored a discussion paper for Oxfam America in which she argues that impact investors are too focused on return on investment and not focused enough on the problems to be solved. She wants to put th...

Bots will soon be able to join video conversations in 1:1 and group Skype calls, Microsoft announced today. Bot builders can use the BotBuilder RealTimeMediaCalling extension on Github, now in preview, to bring Skype bot...

GUEST: Uber, the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company, finally launched its on-demand food delivery service, UberEATS, in India last week — the fastest-growing market in the world. UberEATS is starting off its oper...

Oh, Tavern Brawl. You mean so much more than a free pack every week. Hearthstone has become a huge hit for Blizzard on PC and mobile, with more than 70 million registered players since its 2014 launch. The free-to-play d...

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One of the most successful virtual reality game studios is now a part of one of the world’s biggest corporations. Google revealed today that it has acquired Owlchemy Labs, the studio that is best known for developing p...

Rest in peace, Snap. We hardly knew ye. The company’s first earnings report as a public company was the disaster many had feared as the company fell well short of revenue projections and reported only modest user growt...

Bot and chat company Gupshup today announced that it will make Microsoft Cognitive Services available for Interbot, its bot-to-bot communication channel. The move will bring computer vision, text sentiment analysis, and ...

The world's greatest communicators have mastered their personal communication style. You can too.

Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, has never been shy about expressing his opinions. He spoke out against the travel ban, and he talked about leadership with Mike Gallagher, CEO of the Entertainment Software Association....

Elon Musk, habitually behind schedule, announced today that anyone can now preorder a Tesla Solar Roof -- a roof made of shingles with built-in solar cells. Musk had previously said preorders would open in April, and pro...

GUEST: By now, we’ve all heard the hype around AI. According to Google Trends, only 5 percent of the U.S. population searched for information about artificial intelligence in 2012. In 2017, that figure has jumped to an...

Appeals curt overturns

Lurking beneath the fear of artificial intelligence and automation threatening people’s jobs lies a deeper, far more profound threat. Do artificial intelligence and automation imperil humanity itself? Those predicting ...

Public health teaches us about contraceptive usage; religious institutions tell us to wait until we are married. But where do we go for the questions in between?

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced that Toyota will use Nvidia’s Drive PX supercomputers for autonomous vehicles. Those cars will debut in the market in the next few years, Huang said. The Drive PX uses a new processo...

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Nvidia and SAP have teamed up to use artificial intelligence and computer vision to figure out how many times a brand appears in the real world. Somewhere, somebody whose job it is to count how many times a logo appears ...

Microsoft announced today that it is working with HP and Intel to bring more Cortana-powered devices to the world. HP will make a device with Cortana inside while Intel will work on a reference design. Microsoft Artifici...