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OPINION: Final Fantasy IV has one of the best soundtracks of any game. The iconic Square Enix role-playing game came out for the Super Nintendo in 1991. Not only did it tell an epic story unparalleled by other JRPGs of i...

Samsung plans to bring a foldable smartphone codenamed "Winner" to market in late 2019, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal. Also due out soon is the first smart speaker with Bixby inside, dubbed Lex, which...

Last week, Epic Games surprised developers when it revealed that it would begin giving more money from each sale on the Unreal Engine Marketplace to the creators who built them. While the standard is a 70/30 split in fav...

Indianapolis-based tech apprenticeship academy Kenzie Academy announced today that it has raised $4.2 million in seed funding. The funding was led by existing investor, edtech VC firm ReThink Ventures. Butler University,...

Corning has announced Gorilla Glass 6, a version of its front and rear device glass toplined by dramatically improved resilience to multiple drops.

TrustToken is using blockchain to improve the trustworthiness of investments and transactions, and the company is issuing more tokens that will enable investors to take advantage of tokenization. For the first time, the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Inventory robot maker Bossa Nova Robotics today announced it has acquired Hawxeye, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff whose work focuses primarily on computer vision and facial recognition software. The acqu...

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With so much news about Fortnite lately, it’s easier to forget that Epic Games makes the Unreal Engine. But today, the game engine behind some of the most realistic and is taking center stage as Epic launches Unreal En...

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Dragon Ball Fighterz next downloadable characters are the base forms of Goku and Vegeta, according to Siliconera (a gaming news site that specializes in Japanse gaming). The fighters will be available sometime in early A...

Nervos Network has raised $28 million to build a next-generation blockchain network for the enterprise. The company raised the money from Polychain Capital, Sequoia China, Wanxiang Blockchain, FBG Capital, Blockchain Cap...

EXCLUSIVE: We are at the beginning of global disruption via blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies. The sun is only just peeking over the crypto horizon as the tech world comes to grips with the implications of dis...

Apple's expensive new Core i9 MacBook Pro performs so poorly under load that that it shouldn't even be offered to customers, a popular YouTube video creator alleges.

Mike Capps, former president of Epic Games, retired six years ago to focus on his family. But yesterday he announced that he has cofounded a new business, Diveplane, that aims to use artificial intelligence for the benef...

Artificial intelligence (AI) health care startup Viz.ai has raised $21 million in a round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Alphabet’s venture capital arm GV. Founded out of San Francisco in 20...

Following the record $5 billion antitrust fine announced today by European regulators, Google CEO Sundar Pichai penned an impassioned defense of the company’s Android mobile operating system. “If you buy an Android p...

R4 Technologies, a Connecticut-based startup that uses AI to help companies 'unlock growth opportunities blocked by traditional approaches,' has raised $20 million in a recent funding round.

Continuing its support for container-based web development, Google announced today that it will begin offering commercial Kubernetes apps in its cloud store. Google Cloud Platform is behind the GCP Marketplace, and the c...

Descartes Labs, a geospatial analytics startup headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, launched the Wildfire Watch system. It's a Twitter bot that updates every six hours with two time-lapse videos -- one in full color an...

Ever since the European Union launched its antitrust case against Google’s Android two years ago, Silicon Valley insiders and tech pundits have been scratching their heads. They are alternately bemused and puzzled by t...

Kids' entertainment platform Pocket.watch has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Viacom. Pocket.watch and Viacom will partner to develop and produce long-form and short-form content, extend Pocket.watch's adver...