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Four companies with Wisconsin operations announced a $100 million corporate VC fund. Apple supplier Foxconn, insurance company Northwestern Mutual, health care provider Advocate Aurora Health, and building materials supp...

Two of the most interesting AI features in Android Pie are Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness. Both work automatically in the background -- machine learning handles all the heavy lifting. Google has now shared how ...

Intel is launching a new batch of 8th Gen Intel Core processors, fueling new line-ups of fanless laptops with at least 16 hours of battery life. The new U-series (formerly code-named Whiskey Lake) and Y-series processors...

The Minecraft Team at Microsoft has landed a major combination with its first Summer Sale and the launch of the Minecraft Marketplace on the Nintendo Switch. Those big moves have led to a growth spurt for the block-build...

It takes about $10 billion to build a brand new state-of-the-art chip manufacturing plant, and Globalfoundries admitted yesterday it would no longer invest in a bleeding-edge 7-nanometer fabrication plant, or fab. Advanc...

Microsoft today announced plans to roll out a series of AI services to Microsoft 365 customers using OneDrive and SharePoint. Later this year, users will be able to get automated transcriptions from all audio and video f...

Banned by the United States and Australian governments with a similar lockout looming in South Korea, embattled Chinese 5G hardware maker Huawei has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for a hearing to regain a...

Robotics supply chain startup GreyOrange is expanding stateside, it announced today. It intends to open a new headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and a manufacturing plant by 2019.

Two weeks after an unusually high number of users broadcasted complaints of hacked accounts, Instagram is giving users more ways to keep their accounts secure — and view information about other accounts they interact w...

SPONSORED: To see what a typical PIGSquad meetup is like, check out our video below about one of the organization's Summer Slow Jam events, where attendees had a week to make a game based on predetermined topics and the...

Nintendo had a big surprise at the end of its Nindies stream today. The indie hit turn-based strategy game Into the Breach is available on Switch right now. Into the Breach comes from Subset Games, which also created the...

Nintendo announced today during its Nindies stream that Towerfall is coming to Switch on September 27. It will include playable characters from developer Matt Makes Games recent hit Celeste, a 2D platformer about climbin...

Bose unveiled a trio of new products powered by Amazon Alexa: the Bose Home Speaker 500, Bose Soundbar 700, and Bose Soundbar 500. All three have Apple AirPlay 2 built in, and will gain support for additional voice assis...

Nest and Google announced that starting on Wednesday, the Nest x Yale lock will gain compatibility with the Google Assistant. In more concrete terms, it'll add voice commands that'll let users remotely check the status o...

Google announced the general availability of a slew of new Cloud Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech features, including Audio Profiles, WaveNet-generated voices, multi-lingual detection, and more.

As the blockchain technology space matures, we're seeing an increasing number of platforms designed to help traditional markets tokenize, decentralize, and take advantage of distributed ledgers. VNX Exchange is now launc...

Capcom announced today that it is remastering its classic action game Onimusha: Warlords for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. It will come out on January 15 and cost $20. Onimusha: Warlords first released for the...

Samsung's new Portable SSD X5 is the sort of drive that couldn't have been imagined 10 years ago: one that can back up a 20GB 4K Ultra HD video in around 12 seconds.

Almost a decade ago, while attending some "Future of News" event, I listened to the founder of an independent news startup complain about how unattractive traditional news organizations were to venture capitalists. Their...

Spotinst, a startup that helps companies pay less for their cloud services by accessing excess capacity from cloud computing providers, has raised $35 million in a series B round of funding led by Highland Europe, with p...

REVIEW: The Messenger is another indie game taking inspiration from the action-platformers of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras. But while the likes of Shovel Knight and Sundered borrow most from Castlevania and Super Metroid, T...

Oculus Education today announced pilot programs that will bring its VR gear to educational institutions in Seattle, Japan, and Taiwan.