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Cubism is an elegant puzzler about building 3D shapes in virtual reality. It’s the latest game from indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel, who previously worked on the VR game Panoptic, and it will launch later this year f...

GUEST: Every day brings considerable AI news, from breakthrough capabilities to dire warnings. A quick read of recent headlines shows both: an AI system that claims to predict dengue fever outbreaks up to three months in...

VentureBeat has a job opening for an AI reporter with experience covering tech news via a wide variety of story types, including breaking news, analysis, and features. This is a full-time position. We’re looking for a ...

Solo: A Star Wars Story is in theaters today. It tells the exciting adventure of how notorious scoundrel Han Solo taught his Wookiee friend, Chewbacca, about the physics of load-bearing support beams. But in addition to ...

OPINION: I’ve used Slack on and off for years, but only about a month ago did my team start using it full time. The tool is growing on me, sure, but having used a variety of alternatives, I also find it unnecessarily f...

Yogome Is The Anytime, Anywhere, Safe Learning Platform One of our favorite edtech platforms for enriching skills and education is Yogome. That’s because our now 10 year old edtech reporter Tatum F absolutely fell in l...

Microsoft is developing a tool that can detect bias in artificial intelligence algorithms with the goal of helping businesses use AI without running the risk of discriminating against certain people. Rich Caruana, a seni...

DICE general manager Oskar Gabrielson is responding to a segment of fans who are outraged that a woman with a prosthetic limb appeared in a combat scene in the reveal trailer for Battlefield V on Wednesday. On Twitter, t...

Michael Pachter, currently at Wedbush Securities, has been an analyst on video games for decades, and he is never shy about sharing his opinions on what has become a $137.9 billion business, according to market researche...

The zombie survival game State of Decay 2 has already reached over 1 million players on Xbox One and PC, Microsoft announced today. But this does not mean 1 million games sold. This counts those who can access the game t...

For cross-country road travel, cross-border bike travel, and city-center foot travel, there is no shortage of great navigation apps out there — Google Maps, Waze, Here, to name but a few. But what about those forays in...

GUEST: Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is one of the most talked-about topics in tech today. But a closer look at the numbers shows talk is often all that's happening. Atlassian, in collaboration with Market Cube, recently...

Activision and Electronic Arts disclosed the war plans for their big first-person shooter games of the year, and now it’s time for one of those “tastes great, less filling” debates about which video game is better:...

EXCLUSIVE: CryptoKitties has been growing fast with its cryptocurrency-enabled blockchain collectible kittens, and that enabled creator Axiom Zen to raise a hefty round of funding. But another company has sued Axiom Zen ...

(Reuters) — As Europe's new privacy law took effect on Friday, one activist wasted no time in asserting the additional rights it gives people over the data that companies want to collect about them. Austrian Max Schrem...

Today marks the start of Europe’s tough new privacy regime, and despite two years of warning and preparation time, at least two newspaper chains in the U.S. couldn’t figure them out. Readers in Europe woke up this mo...

Google is testing a new ad placement: Ad cards right in the Google Feed. The Google Feed cards look like all the rest, except for a small green “Ad” badge in the bottom left-hand corner. Some users started seeing the...

Microsoft has released Windows 10 build 17677 from the RS5 branch. Among the changes are improvements to Edge, Narrator, kernel debugging, Task Manager, and mobile broadband.

HTC’s standalone VR headset Vive Focus launched in China last year, and it’s getting some neat software upgrades ahead of its anticipated global release. Just announced at the 2018 Vive Ecosystem Conference, the Vive...

At the Re-Work Deep Learning Summit in Boston today, a panel of ethicists and engineers discussed some of the biggest challenges facing artificial intelligence: algorithmic biases, ethics in AI, and whether the tools to ...

People using iOS devices like iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV will not have access to the Steam Link app that enables you to play games over a stream running on a local PC. Valve Software announced the Steam Link app for iOS a...

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