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(Reuters) — Twitter has banned U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website Infowars from tweeting for seven days, saying their tweets violated company’s rules against abusive behavior. The microblogging site ...

It’s been a year and some change since I joined GamesBeat. Now that I’m leaving, I still don’t have a good definition for what indie is. If pressed, I would probably say that indie games take risks. They move you, ...

On August 20, Samsung is releasing its new HW-N950 and HW-N850 soundbars. These are its high-end audio devices that it built in collaboration with audio-engineering firm Harman Kardon. Both soundbars feature support for ...

Google is reportedly developing an AI assistant that tracks not just your workouts and activity, but your nutrition.

Google is concerned that Wear OS apps aren't meeting their full potential under the Play Store's optional app review process, so it will make pre-release reviews mandatory starting in October.

Microsoft recently added HoloLens AR headset demos to its retail stores, letting mall shoppers go hands-on with a potentially transformative technology. Underscore potentially.

Pinterest today shared details about how it created PinSage, a graph convolutional network that can learn about things like nearby Pins, or nodes, in massive web-scale graphs. Pintwrest began to use PinSage for ad recomm...

THQ Nordic announced today that it has acquired the rights to the TimeSplitters series, a trilogy of first-person shooters that released in the early 2000s. TimeSplitters is a successor to the popular Nintendo 64 shooter...

Square has announced that it has has cut its chip reader processing time for card transactions down to just two seconds. The news comes a little more than a year after Jack Dorsey took to Twitter to boast that Square had...

Oracle today open-sourced Graphpipe, a tool created to make it easy to serve machine learning models in the cloud. Graphpipe was designed to simplify the deployment of machine learning for use on mobile apps and IoT devi...

Google is finally making its revamped Google One storage plans available to everyone in the U.S. Up until now, those on an existing paid Google Drive plan have been upgraded to Google One over the past few months, but la...

ANALYSIS: When cellular carriers made bets on what the earliest 5G networks would look like, AT&T said "mobile" and Verizon said "fixed," or home-tethered devices. Verizon turned out to be largely correct, but to get peo...

Descartes Labs, a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based geospatial analytics startup, is teaming up with Airbus to bring high-resolution satellite imagery to its satellite imagery platform.

REVIEW: Destination: Primus Vita is an episodic narrative puzzle game that weaves together a number of elements into a fantastic sci-fi tale. It’s Epsilon Games’ debut title, a new studio that boasts Ubisoft veterans...

Indie publisher Raw Fury wrapped up a Series A round of funding with a $5.5 million investment from Nordisk Film Games, which was the sole investor in the round. The publisher has a few titles cooking, like Shedworks’ ...

OPINION: Having just returned from vacation this week, I’m struggling with a decision I would hope all journalists and news organizations are confronting: whether to finally quit Twitter. Yes, yes, I know. The “Why I...

Clobotics, an AI startup with dual headquarters in Seattle and Shanghai, has raised $1 million for its bespoke retail and wind energy solutions.

Microsoft and Amazon will bring Alexa and Cortana to all Echo speakers and Windows 10 users in the U.S. today. As part of a partnership between the Seattle-area tech giants, you can say “Hey Cortana, open Alexa” to W...

Verses has launched a protocol for virtual and augmented reality so that it can establish ownership of virtual real estate, 3D space, and other goods in the virtual world. The company likes to refer to this idea of ownin...

Dating app Coffee Meets Bagel announced today that it is giving users another way to sign in, as some remain wary about connecting to apps with their Facebook accounts following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Coffee Me...

Built on a 10-nanometer process, Samsung's new Exynos Modem 5100 includes comprehensive 5G and pre-5G standard support, enabling devices to use a single chip to connect with 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks.

Full Harvest, a B2B marketplace that helps farmers shift surplus and imperfect produce to food and beverage companies, has raised $8.5 million in a series A round of funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from ...