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The world of augmented reality (AR) got a real shot in the arm in July 2016 with the launch of Pokémon Go. Until then, AR hadn’t entered the psyche of the average mobile game player. Two years later and a new player e...

At VentureBeat's Transform 2018 conference, Yoon C. Lee, senior vice president of content and services and head of the product innovation team at Samsung Electronics America, spoke at length about Samsung's vision for AI...

Nordstrom marketing executive Brian Hovis knows his company is not a tech company. But in an effort to better reach customers and meet their needs, the retailer is getting savvy with artificial intelligence. The company�...

Google Home users got a surprise last year when their interactive microphone devices played what sounded like an ad for the live action Beauty and the Beast film starring Emma Watson. Some who heard the ad commented that...

To help avoid future 5G licensing-related fights, Nokia today disclosed its licensing fee for 5G standard essential patents: €3 (U.S. $3.48) per device, a flat rate notably lower than 5G licenses announced by rivals Er...

At VentureBeat's Transform 2018 conference, Stewart Rogers, director of marketing technology at VentureBeat, spoke with panelists from ZipRecruiter, Salesforce, Trulia, and Amplero, about AI's role in product recommendat...

Driven by advances in machine learning, conversational AI like the kind at play in Alexa, Google Assistant, and other prominent virtual assistants is only going to grow in adoption as the biggest tech companies in the wo...

HealthTap, a Palo Alto, California-based company delivering a suite of connected health apps, announced a slew of platform updates at VentureBeat's Transform 2018 conference that "augmented the patient experience" with a...

Following months of heavy scrutiny into its ad targeting practices, Facebook announced today that it is getting rid of more than 5,000 ad targeting options. In a blog post announcing the changes, Facebook did not say spe...

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Some of the hype around Battlefield V is starting to turn sour. In a note to investors (as The Wall Street Journal spotted), analyst Doug Creutz of investment firm Cowen & Co. said that the game’s preorder numbers were...

Supermassive Games has unveiled The Dark Pictures Anthology, a series of short horror games that begin with Man of Medan in 2019. Supermassive Games created the PlayStation 4 horror game Until Dawn, which was my favorite...

Microsoft has spent most of the last year trying to fix its much maligned Master Chief Collection that brings together multiple Halo games into a singular package. This bundle first debuted in November 2014, but fans qui...

Microsoft announced today as part of its Inside Xbox Live stream from Gamescom in Cologne, Germany that Devil May Cry V is launching on March 8. The action game is coming out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Microsof...

Microsoft’s program for unfinished games is getting another big port from the PC. Hunt: Showdown from developer Crytek is launching into Xbox Game Preview at some point in the future. Hunt is a match-based survival gam...

Microsoft revealed a new mode, Spirit Trials, for its upcoming Metroidvania, Ori and the Will of the Wisps. The announcement came today as part of its Inside Xbox Live stream from Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. The sequel...

Facebook is now giving users a score between 0 and 1 to help determine whether or not they’re accurately reporting instances of fake news, the Washington Post reports. Three years ago, Facebook first gave users the abi...

Microsoft announced it will have new options for the Xbox Design Lab‘s custom Xbox One wireless controllers. Players can now design their controllers with a wider palette of designs, including five new camouflage sets ...

The PUBG Corporation and publisher Microsoft are launching the 1.0 version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Xbox One on September 4. This comes nine months after the battle royale shooter launched on the console in ...

Netflix is nixing Apple's in-app subscriptions in 33 countries through September 30, preventing new or lapsed customers in those countries from purchasing in-app subscriptions, and directing them to its own web page ins...

Microsoft has showed up in Germany to make some announcements, and you can watch it live right now. The Xbox company brought its Inside Xbox video show to the massive fan event that attracts more than 350,000 attendees a...

Appy Pie aims to simplify app development with artificial intelligence and an easy-to-use, intuitive WYSIWYG suite of tools.