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SPONSORED: Despite the direct correlation between diversity and higher profits and revenue, there remains a significant void in gender and ethnic diversity for many companies, especially in the technology sector.

Final Fantasy is one of my favorite game series, and its 16-bit era might be its best. You have the groundbreaking Final Fantasy IV, the systems-based Final Fantasy V, and the epic Final Fantasy VI. But if you want to pl...

After a quarter filled with negative headlines, Facebook reported lower-than-expected growth in revenue and daily active users in its second quarter earnings release. Facebook reported $13.23 billion in revenue between A...

Amazon previously developed a "which device is closest?" solution for Echo speakers called Echo Spatial Perception (ESP), and today it's expanding the feature to every Alexa device with the introduction of Cloud ESP.

Many indie devs have used versions of RPG Maker software to create their low-budget games, like critically acclaimed story-driven titles like Freebird Games’ To the Moon and Dingaling Productions’ dark role-playing g...

Alphabet's Waymo is starting trials to ferry shoppers to Walmart Inc's stores in Phoenix, Arizona, the company said.

June didn’t have any standout blockbuster releases, but the games industry showed that it doesn’t need big launches to generate revenue. Digital sales generated $9.1 billion in May as well as last month, which was up...

Google’s YouTube VR application is coming to the Samsung Gear VR this week, the company announced today, potentially expanding the virtual reality video service’s audience by “millions of people.” YouTube VR is p...

Google has released the fourth Android P beta and the fifth developer preview. The preview includes a release candidate build with final system behaviors.

Developer Ninja Theory announced today that its cerebral action game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is getting a new VR version. It will release for Steam on July 31 and work on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Hellblade: Senua�...

Apple is highlighting gaming once again in a new commercial dubbed “Unleash.” It is aimed at showing that Apple’s A11 Bionic chip in the iPhone X is ideal for gaming. And it highlighted Super Evil Megacorp’s Vain...

Brands have moved quickly to spread their message through social media and influencers. But those brands have also run into unsafe content, such as hateful speech and inappropriate or offensive content, that negatively i...

To get a better sense of the daily combat over sensitive personal and business digital data, all one has to do is peruse the website of California's Attorney General.

At Google Cloud Next 2018, Google took the wraps off new G Suite features including Google Voice for enterprise, enhanced Cloud Search, a redesigned Gmail experience, and more.

EXCLUSIVE: Digital assets can be a minefield for even the most experienced traders. So when a platform comes along that makes trading easier for the regular consumer, it behooves us all to sit up and take notice. Craider...

Bossa Studios announced today that Surgeon Simulator is coming to Nintendo Switch this fall. Surgeon Simulator has players performing intense medical procedures, but it’s not as serious as it sounds. It’s all a bit r...

Following up on February’s revealing comparison of smart speaker AI assistants, Loup Ventures today published its “annual digital assistant IQ test,” tracking the performance of the four major AI assistants on smar...

AI Benchmark is a new app for Android devices that compares hardware-accelerated neural network performance across a host of computer vision tasks.

EXCLUSIVE: As a distributed ledger, blockchain technology is well-suited to providing an immutable, transparent, censorship-free database of record, thus reducing fraud in a wide range of industries and practices. And th...

Hawaii-based Elemental Excelerator announced it has raised $30 million from the U.S. Navy and will expand its socially minded accelerator program to California. The nonprofit program finds and nurtures startups working o...

Microsoft is preparing to launch its Xbox Adaptive Controller, which helps people with limited mobility play games, for its launch in September. And today the company is revealing how it designed the packaging for that c...

Now that the 2018 MacBook Pro’s throttling issue has been addressed, Apple has another serious problem on its hands: crashes attributed to the company’s T2 processor and its “Bridge OS” software. As first noticed...