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Better late than never. The U.S. special counsel indicted 13 Russian nationals for committing cyber fraud in support of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. And now Israel’s Toka is announcing it has raised $12.5 mi...

GUEST: In recent years, artificial intelligence algorithms have become very good at recommending content to users -- a bit too good, you might say. Tech companies use AI to optimize their recommendations based on how use...

EXCLUSIVE: SmartNews said it has reached more than 10 million monthly active users in the U.S. and Japan for its news discovery experience that is curated by machine language and trusted journalism sources. The news app ...

Three Fields Entertainment is already back with its third game after launching Dangerous Golf and Danger Zone last year. This time it’s Danger Zone 2, which takes the score-chasing car-crashing puzzle action of the fir...

New augmented reality announcements and demos now surface every day, but almost every piece of AR news suffers from the same issue: No matter how cool it sounds at first, it will generally not be practical for regular pe...

Google researchers, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, have developed a neural network that maps neurons inside the brain more accurately than previous methods.

GUEST: States around the U.S. face a pressing challenge: where to find the talent to fill 500,000 new STEM jobs in the next decade. To meet this need, Illinois universities are investing in new forms of experiential educ...

Apple will add over 70 new emoji to its 2018 operating system releases, enabling iOS 12, macOS Mojave, and watchOS 5 users to further customize the hair and expressions of the popular messaging icons.

EXCLUSIVE: Facial recognition company Kairos today announced the release of the Kairos Protocol, a biometrics verification system for cryptocurrency transactions to prevent theft through blockchain transactions. In addit...

OPINION: I love playing Japanese role-playing games, but I rarely play them on a TV or computer. Portable systems have spoiled me. Yes, I’m still playing these games at home … just not on a big screen. I work from my...

Samsung announced it will have both 3.5GHz and 28GHz hardware ready in time for South Korea's launch of next-generation 5G networks: initial 5G transmissions will begin on December 1, 2018, with commercialization in Marc...

Klang Games, a Berlin-based game development studio, has raised $8.95 million in funding to support Seed, an artificial intelligence-driven massively multiplayer space colonization online simulation. The online game will...

Microsoft is teaming up with National Geographic to launch the AI for Earth Innovation Grant, an initiative that'll provide researchers access to AI development tools.

Researchers at Amazon have developed a method that uses playback duration and an AI model to predict musical taste.

The majority of technology CEOs surveyed globally (54 percent) believe that a "return to territorialism" is the greatest risk to their growth, according to a new report by KPMG, the audit, tax, and advisory services orga...

EXCLUSIVE: Regardless of the buzz around ICOs and other blockchain token generation events, one thing remains true. If you want people to invest in your project and hit your targets, you need to attract a large community...

Apple may have fixed the MacBook Pro’s lawsuit-inspiring keyboard in its just-released 2018 model, but it will keep repairing defective 2016 and 2017 laptops using problematic older components. MacRumors reports that A...

EXCLUSIVE: Digital Surgery's AI platform helps to guide surgical teams through complex medical procedures with audio and visual cues.

High Alpha, a self-described “venture studio” based in Indianapolis, announced today that it has raised more than $100 million to fund new enterprise software startups in Indianapolis and the Midwest. The $100 millio...

More than one year after the European Union hit Google with a record $2.72 billion antitrust fine over search engine abuses, regulators are reportedly on the verge of levelling an even larger fine related to the Android ...

Silicon Valley startup Verge Genomics, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, has raised $32 million in a funding round.

(Reuters) — Investors on Monday cheered the lifting of a U.S. supplier ban on China's ZTE, pushing its shares up 17 percent, though analysts cautioned the telecommunications equipment maker still faced many challenges ...