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The recent increase in regulatory efforts means that investors must proceed with more caution as the wave of cryptocurrencies and ICO's is showing no signs of slowing down.

Bunker Labs Startup Sempulse, Uses IoT To Bring Next Generation Technology To Triage In a war zone, during a mass casualty event, military medics must rely on sight, sound and instinct to quickly triage as many patients ...

GUEST: Much has been written about the Russia-Facebook advertising scandal of 2017. The episode has revealed the first (and maybe only) achilles heel for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. His profit-making machine depends on...

GUEST: Watch out, West Coast: The thriving startup scene rising out of the Midwest means it’s no longer flyover country. The Upper Midwest — especially the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota — has b...

Amazon today announced that Alexa-enabled devices can now recognize unique human voices, giving the assistant the power to deliver personalized experiences when it hears you speak. Once a Voice Profile is created by reci...

Video games weren’t a big part of Oculus’s Connect 4 event today in San Jose. They took a backseat to things like the new standalone Oculus Go headset and the Rift Core 2.0‘s new user interface software. But the vi...

GUEST: As the old saying goes, a smile costs nothing but gives so much. In the future, it will offer a lot more, including everything from the ability to fly across the country to the means to purchase fried chicken. If ...

Respawn Entertainment, the development studio for EA’s blockbuster Titanfall sci-fi shooter series, said that it will create a VR game for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in 2019. The odds are good that it will...

Facebook Spaces, a social virtual reality space, is getting a few upgrades that make it a lot more social. Spaces will now let you share live 360-degree video from anywhere in the world. The videos show up inside the soc...

Facebook said today that its Oculus avatar characters for virtual reality will be upgraded to be more realistic, and they will be available across platforms in SteamVR and Google Daydream VR apps. Christina Womack, produ...

GUEST: Though it will still be months before the public learns which city will be home to Amazon HQ2, one thing has already become clear: This RFP process, arguably the most highly speculated business decision ever, has ...

Oculus announced during its Oculus Connect 4 event today that Rift Core 2.0, the new built-in software user-interface programs for the company’s virtual reality hardware, will go into beta in December as a free update....

Have you ever had anything stolen from you? It's not a great feeling. But somewhere between the anger, disappointment, defiance, and sheer comedy of it all, there's a decision that has to be made. This week, I take a loo...

GitHub announced a series of updates to its service today that are supposed to help users improve the way they manage the development of software. A new Dependency Graph will help customers better understand what code th...

Oculus unveiled a new virtual reality interface for the Oculus Rift called Dash at the Oculus Connect keynote event today in San Jose. It’s built with React VR and will be available alongside Oculus Home. It’s also a...

Hugo Barra, the new head of the Oculus division at Facebook, said today at the Connect event that the company is targeting businesses with its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Facebook launched the Rift for consumers...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new standalone virtual reality headset called the Oculus Go today at the Oculus Connect event in San Jose. It will launch in early 2018 for $200, with developer kits shipping in No...

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced an ambitious goal to make virtual reality accessible to everyone. “We are setting a goal,” he said. “We want to get a billion people in virtual reality.” Zuckerberg mad...

A campaign to enroll girls in school around the world picks up steam as social media stars sign on.

Open-Xchange, a longtime provider of white-label email that jumped into the consumer space this past year, has raised $25 million to continue expanding its services that offer a different balance between privacy and adve...

Jonathan Dison, author of 'The Consulting Economy,' shares the lessons he wish he had known when becoming a consultant.

$50 and 60 minutes proves that election hacking via fake news and Facebook ads is a very real possibility.