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Microsoft is showing game developers a presentation that highlights the creation of its Xbox Community Content service that will enable people to bring mods and hats to games on that platform, according to a rumor over a...

KaiOS Technologies, which is developing an operating system for advanced feature phones, announced it has landed a surprising round of funding from Google. The maker of the Android smartphone operating system led a $22 m...

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GUEST: A closer look at recent developments in artificial intelligence shows Alexa is the rule rather than the exception. From Apple's Siri to Hanson Robotics' humanoid robot Sophia, it seems that the future is female in...

Again and again I am rewarded by talking to new people about what we're doing and being honest about where we are. Most importantly the exchanges need to be reciprocal, offering to help as much as to be helped.

Google should give away Home Mini smart speakers to fend off Amazon Echo and maintain its dominance in search, a Morgan Stanley analyst argues.

VB LIVE: Join execs from Adecco, LinkedIn, and Trivago to learn how how AI is revolutionizing their ability to resource high-quality talent, and how your company can do the same, in this VB Live event.

Google announced that it's expanding Quick Access, a machine learning-powered tool that suggests files relevant to documents you're editing, to all customers, and that it's adding NLP to the search function within Google...

UK Government Digital Secretary Matt Hancock has been busy this past month, developing new initiatives which are sure to benefit the financial technology in the fintech hub that is the city of London.

Amazon today announced the release of the Alexa Skills Kit for Python beta, marking the first time the software development kit has been available in a language other than JavaScript. The Alexa Skills Kit is for develope...

Niantic plans to offer the custom AR software behind Pokemon Go to other developers, and is teasing advanced features that go beyond the capabilities of Apple's and Google's development kits.

From the dangers of over-expanding to not taking care of your team, here's how to navigate the pitfalls of opening a restaurant.

It seems like everyone has a side hustle these days. Turning a side gig into a full-time business isn't always easy, let alone growing it into a million-dollar startup. But, it's not as far off as you might expect, and t...

Shortly after Facebook announced that it was finally rolling out its tool for users to see all the active ads being run by a single Page, Twitter announced today that it is releasing its long-awaited Ads Transparency Cen...

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Deep Silver announced today that it will publish the upcoming PC role-playing game Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Pathfinder: Kingmaker is based on the popular Pathfinder table-top RPG game. The PC game will work with the same r...

Tsinghua University revealed plans to open a center for artificial intelligence research and development in China. In a related announcement, it said that Jeff Dean, Google's AI chief, will serve on the University's comp...

OnePlus says that it will be one of the first 5G mobile phone makers, with a product available during the initial year of U.S. 5G availability, and is working with U.S. carriers to start sales in carrier stores.

It’s a good week for games in São Paulo -- and not just because Brazil advanced in the World Cup. Brazil's Independent Games festival is running for the sixth year in a row, an annual event that celebrates a diverse a...

Savioke, maker of delivery robot Relay, today announced the closure of a $13.4 million funding round. Its Relay robot has operated in hotels since last year, and the company will use the funding to place the robots into ...

The nominations for the Game Critics Awards are out and Electronic Arts and BioWare’s science fiction game Anthem is one of the big winners of best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). All told, Anthem had ...

Facebook today released a new tool that will allow users to see what advertisements a Page is running — whether or not all of those advertisements are targeted at that particular user. It’s the latest in a string of ...