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PRESS RELEASE: Sephora is continuing its mission of inspiring fearlessness among clients with the introduction of "Bold Beauty for the Transgender Community," a new, complimentary in-store class offering for individuals ...

Amazon’s Alexa has been able to schedule meetings for some time now, but starting today, Alexa can schedule one-on-one meetings based on the availability of both meeting participants. The Alexa Smart Scheduling Assista...

Uzbl Provides Maximum Protection For Your Students’ Chromebooks and iPads Let’s face it devices are a part of every day education. Last year over 42% of the nation’s students were using a school issued device for a...

PlayStation 4 is getting another Elite-like controller from Scuf Gaming. The peripheral maker announced the new Vantage controller in both a wireless model for $200 and a wired version for $170. As with other Scuf gamepa...

Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with members of the European Parliament for approximately an hour and a half. The meeting, originally set to take place in private, was livestreamed after some members of parliamen...

Epic is pairing up celebrities with Fortnite experts for its upcoming Celebrity Pro-Am event during the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles. The Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am begins 3:30 p.m. Pacific time...

REVIEW: I don’t own a real Star Trek uniform, but having watched every film and most of the TV shows in the franchise, I’d consider myself a fan. Even so, after multiple attempts to immerse myself in Ubisoft’s Star...

VB LIVE: AI is making mapping devices smarter, and Location of Things navigation is becoming a reality. To learn more about how cloud-based, AI-powered location technology is bringing us closer to a world of autonomous c...

Amazon is selling Rekognition, its facial recognition platform, to law enforcement agencies, an ACLU report revealed.

EXCLUSIVE: John James, a serial entrepreneur from Fayetteville, Arkansas, said he was faced with a dilemma in his quest to make his town a more friendly place for tech startups: “Is my time better served mentoring 10 p...

As iZettle agrees on terms of its sale to PayPal, it's still committed to taking on the giants of retail. Strategy director

Changing a brand's logo can be scary as oftentimes consumers develop an affinity for it. One hospitality chain's new logo is meant to be more than a change of symbol, but also a symbol of change.

Slack today made one of its biggest changes to date to its platform with the introduction of actions, an enhancement to integrations from third-party software providers. Actions launch initially with deeper integrations ...

Team communications chat app Slack today announced its Slack Fund invested in six new startups, including meeting assistant Clara and SaaS management service Epistema. The size of each investment was not disclosed. Since...

Sony Interactive Entertainment president and chief executive officer John Tsuyoshi Kodera noted in an investor relations call today that the PlayStation 4 is entering the final phase of its life cycle, via Japanese gamin...

While bold lip shades are empowering for special occasions or nights out, the cofounders of Mented say women of color needed an ideal nude lipstick to complete effortless looks for everyday wear. This inspired KJ Miller ...

LockState, the parent company of RemoteLock cloud platform for smart locks, has raised $5.8 million in a new round of funding to accelerate the adoption of smart locks in homes. Denver-based RemoteLock is a cloud-based s...

Interactive storytelling startup Novel Effect announced today a $3M Series A investment round co-led by Alpha Edison, TenOneTen Ventures, and Waverley Capital. Here's what CEO Matt Hammersley had to say about the future ...

The ESL is working with Alienware as its partner for all ESL One events. This Dell-owned gaming hardware brand will be the official computer and monitor partner for the independent esports group’s global circuit for 20...

When I tried out Playables’ newest game, Kids, I spent a lot of time shoving people into a hole. Like the developer’s last title, Plug & Play, it’s a sparsely illustrated interactive experience that radiates dark h...

SingularityNET and AI Decentralized today announced the AI Decentralized Alliance (AIDA), an open industry alliance trying to foster the development of decentralized AI technologies. SingularityNET is best known for powe...