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GUEST: Tech entrepreneurs are the cool kids on the block. Whereas young people once aspired to be rockstars or astronauts, today they dream of being startup founders, flush with venture capital and working out of sleek, ...

VB LIVE: Virtual reality is an entirely new way of interacting with content, but is the technology too new to engender consumer confidence? Join our latest VB Live event for insight into the future of VR commerce and how...

Missing: The Complete Saga is in the final days of its Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a different kind of game. It’s about the experience of being a victim of child sex trafficking, something that happens ever...

Atif Siddiqi has been busy. Since his company Branch Messenger graduated from Techstars‘ first retail accelerator class last year, the company has increased its staff, moved operations from Pasadena, California to down...

Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney thinks that mobile game publishers lost sight of what was good for players when they turned up the crank on monetization in the past seven years. That helped mobile gaming rocket to the top of the ...

The idea of going to school and getting a good job, experience the security of working for a single corporation for most of your adult life, and enjoying your golden years with a comfortable retirement plan sound like a ...

When I was shopping for my last laptop, I made a conscious effort to exclude all models with touchscreens. It was an easy way to narrow down the choices and made sense to me: Any money I could save on opting out of the t...

Hello and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo finally adopts PayPal support, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds’ first tournament was a success, and the World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) orga...

In the past nine years, I’ve written around 10,000 stories on games. In this column, I’m going to mention quotes from about 10 of those stories I've written. These ten quotes tell me something about the state of the ...

IndusGeeks Gamifies Training and e-Learning For The Corporate World Study after study has proven that gamification or gamified learning improves engagement ten-fold in the K-20 classroom. Why wouldn’t it work with e-le...

Panorama Deep Dives Growth Mindset In The Classroom With students spending between 6.5 and 8 hours a day in school, 180 days a year for 13 years of their lives it’s not surprising that teachers have a profound impact o...

GM Voices Gives Your eLearning An Articulate, Professional Sounding Voice. More and more companies are starting to create e-learning in house. We all know what a valuable tool e-learning and training is for today’s cor...

Samsung has announced that its smart refrigerators are going truly multilingual, with support for a host of European languages coming this year. If that announcement jarred you slightly, here’s a quick recap of how we ...

SPONSORED: Presented by Intel From Digital Eclipse through Foundation Nine to Other Ocean and the re-acquisition of the Digital Eclipse name, this story scratches the surface of the myriad ways an independent development...

(Reuters) — The billionaire head of South Korea's Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, was jailed for five years for bribery on Friday after a six-month trial over a scandal that brought down the president. Lee had paid bribes i...

Uber has announced a partnership with Girls Who Code, the not-for-profit organization that’s setting out to “close the gender gap” in technology. As part of the three-year tie-up, Uber will mete out $1.2 million to...

(Reuters) — Tesla next month plans to unveil an electric big-rig truck with a working range of 200 to 300 miles, Reuters has learned, a sign that the electric car maker is targeting regional hauling for its entry into ...

Google researchers open-sourced a dataset today to give DIY makers interested in artificial intelligence more tools to create basic voice commands for a range of smart devices. Created by the TensorFlow and AIY teams at ...

I have role-playing games on my mind. This shouldn’t surprise anyone who knows me. In my 10-plus years covering videos games, I’ve been a champion of RPGs, regardless of their origins: Dungeons & Dragons, the story-h...

Killer robots might be coming for us, but not if Elon Musk has his way. In a letter to the United Nations, Musk championed the cause for 116 entrepreneurs and AI experts to set guidelines for future robots that can make ...

The next Call of Duty is nearly upon us, and Activision has rolled out a promotional beta for the military shooter to get people buzzing and to test it in a live environment. Today is the closed beta for Call of Duty: WW...

GUEST: With Apple’s recent introduction of ARKit, developers have rushed to create seriously impressive AR demos for the iPhone. This has resulted in some futurists and techies proclaiming that the age of the smartphon...