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First Mark Zuckerberg, now Tim Cook: Can any top tech CEO get through 2017 without doing a tour of "The Heartland"? This week, the Apple CEO made pit stops in Cincinnati, Ohio; Waukee, Iowa; and Austin, Texas. While Zuck...

The Last Day of June comes from Italian independent studio Ovosonico and indie publisher 505 Games, and it has beautiful art that is akin to walking inside an impressionist painting. But it holds some dark moments, with ...

Apple’s stock posted the highest closing price in its 36-year history Thursday following its announcement that it will unveil the iPhone 8 on September 12. Apple closed at $164.00 a share, up 0.7 percent on the day aft...

At its IFA 2017 event today, Lenovo took the wraps off three refreshed laptops, its new Windows Mixed Reality headset, a Home Assistant Pack for its tablets, and a Star Wars augmented reality experience. The message was ...

Final Fantasy XV is coming to the PC, and it looks even more gorgeous than it does on consoles. Publisher Square Enix announced that it is porting the latest entry in its long-running role-playing franchise to Windows. T...

This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the bizarre, weird, and wonderful world of KFC’s VR “chicken mastery program” and Google’s attempts to catch up with Amazon in conversational UI (bolstered by a partnership w...

Facebook announced today that it is using artificial intelligence to make sure that 360-degree photos uploaded to the social network look their best when other people view them. The company laid out a system at its @Scal...

Sega announced today that Sonic Forces is coming out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on November 7. Sega also revealed a special physical version of the game that will cost $40 and come with a controller skin...

Apple’s iPhone 8 will be unveiled on September 12. The company today sent out invites to the event, which starts at 10:00 a.m. Pacific and will be held in the Steve Jobs Theater on the new Apple Park campus in Cupertin...

Amazon today announced the launch of the first Alexa skills made especially for kids, with skills from Sesame Street, SpongeBob SquarePants, and others. Geared toward children six and older, the SpongeBob Challenge is a ...

Niantic announced today that three more Legendary Pokémon will become available in its hit mobile game, Pokémon Go. Starting on September 30, the three Legendary dog-like beasts — Entei, Suicune, and Raikou — will ...

Earlier this year, Dell released their third annual report ranking cities on their ability to attract and support High Potential Women Entrepreneurs, defined as female entrepreneurs that are growing businesses with the p...

SOUL Electronics, Known For Premium Sound and Their Partnership With Ludacris, Announced Three New Fashionable and Amazing Earphones At IFA SOUL Electronics didn’t waste anytime announcing new products at the IFA show ...

High-end drone company DJI has revealed two products at IFA 2017 in Berlin today. But it is the addition of a new “sphere mode” for the current Spark drone that has (ahem) sparked interest. First up is a new and impr...

OPINION: In what could prove to be a seminal moment, Amazon and Microsoft — two major combatants in the war being waged by tech giants who want their AI assistants in electronics of all kinds — have joined forces. La...

EXCLUSIVE: Mobile game publisher Jam City announced it has appointed Rod Humble, a former Electronic Arts executive, to run its TinyCo Studio in San Francisco. Humble replaces TinyCo founder Suleman (Suli) Ali, TinyCo’...

  During a recent Hack Day at Netflix, one group of employees designed something that sounds totally counterintuitive, but actually could be genius. The Netflix Kiosk was built to address the challenge of users in devel...

VB LIVE: The better you understand your users, the more relevant your financial wellness and chatbot solutions will be and the more meaningful your engagement. Learn how AI helps you detect financial and transactional pa...

Annapurna Interactive has emerged as a game publisher that is willing to take risks on indie titles, and today it is announcing that it will publish Keita Takahashi’s next game, Wattam, on consoles and PC in 2018. Taka...

Kahoot! Studio Features Free, Ready To Play, Learning Games Just In Time For The 2017-2018 School Year Make no bones about it, Kahoot! is one of our favorite K-12 learning tools. The interactive tool allows teachers to q...

Amazon’s Alexa is perhaps best known as the attentive ears and dulcet tones inside the company’s range of products, from the Echo smart speaker to the Fire TV. But courtesy of the Alexa Voice Service (AVS), which lau...

YoYo Games‘ GameMaker Studio 2 has debuted on the Mac, enabling game developers to make two-dimensional games on macOS. YoYo Games originally launched GameMaker Studio 2 on the PC and other platforms in March. Now it i...