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GUEST: Recent commentary from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other influencers in the tech space has reignited the age-old conversation around how artificial intelligence will affect humanity. I say “age-old” becaus...

Any village in the Tanga region of Tanzania is a sad example of the hardships of living in rural Africa, where services like electricity, running water and internet access are scarce. But some are part of a remarkable pr...

Most virtual reality games are leaving me cold these days. The latest shooting gallery doesn’t even register in my brain anymore, and even the more original games have to get some buzz before I’ll try them. Thankfull...

We’ve seen Bluehole Studio crow about its number of people playing 2017’s biggest gaming phenomenon, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, on Steam. But over the weekend, Divinity: Original Sin 2 made some unexpected nois...

When Kate Hiscox started her first e-commerce business, the internet was still called the World Wide Web. Thirteen years and six companies later, she's still working to make the industry better for consumers and companie...

"One day you make a bet that all of a sudden leads you into a stadium full of new customers. It drags you into growth and it's very hard to say no." It sounds like a nice problem to have, but it can lead to some difficul...

Automaton is a new game studio in the United Kingdom, and it’s raised $10 million to make an online survival game built on simulation technology from infrastructure firm Improbable. In the game, as many as 1,000 player...

GUEST: Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have improved the human factor of machines. Like humans, machines can be influenced by people with varying ethical values. In looking at AI’s brief history, exemplified ...

Here's a look at clear-cut metrics that can pump-up growth.

A little less than two weeks after announcing them, Hearthstone’s nerfs for powerful cards like Spreading Plague, Innervate, and Fiery War Axe are here. Why the wait? Well, Blizzard didn’t want to disrupt Hearthstone...

Sledgehammer Games and Activision revealed a story trailer for Call of Duty: WWII, the next installment in the military shooter series that takes players back to World War II. The story reveals the quest that drives the ...

Elon Musk has funded the next Global Learning XPRIZE. The first batch of winners have finalists for the prize have been named, each with the goal to develop methods to teach the 250 million children who do not have acces...

The more immersive a brand can make a marketing experience, the more likely a customer is to remember it and buy. As businesses continue finding ways to market products to customers through events, the alcohol industry w...

If you were to design the perfect evening out for ambitious introverts, what would it be? (besides the obvious, which is not having an evening out at all). It may sound cute to set up a special set of circumstances, but ...

With crowdfunding, a lack of traditional funding options is no longer a barrier to entry for starting a business. Learn from the entrepreneurs behind these five successful companies that started as side projects, and cro...

With Y Combinator's deadline for their Winter 2018 class coming up soon, Stripe distilled these lessons into a comprehensive guide for early stage companies on pitching investors.

The point of the leadership development tools that the modern world has to offer-leadership training, mentorship, leadership keynote speakers with their take on the subject-may not be what you think it is. It isn't leade...

25-year-old Eric Tarczynski has launched a new VC firm that connects student investors at 55 colleges to invest in student startups.

Pegasystems has gone through enormous growth in recent years, but the seeds that have become the many opportunities that company now has were originally planted in 1983, and are a result of a long gestation period in whi...

What we found are false starts, fizzled-out partnerships and, often, no signs of deals at all.

Setting aside the high creep factor of cutting-edge facial recognition, some Wall Street analysts are questioning whether Apple has finally gone too far by marketing a $1000 iPhone. Cartoon by Joe Heller.

GUEST: According to a CBinsights report, the lucky city that will be home to Amazon’s second headquarters would need to have — or train — about 17,000 software engineers. That's a mighty task, considering that ther...