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SPONSORED: At Fractonet Innovation Technologies, we have noticed two primary drivers of success in the blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) segment, and by way of example, this is how we are approaching the challenge.

Electronic Arts and DICE have just begun letting fans into the Battlefield V open beta test on PC and consoles. This is the publisher’s latest attempt to get feedback from players while also generating buzz for the upc...

GUEST: Is the retail apocalypse already over? If so, that was a short one! Big box retailers Target, Walmart, and Best Buy just announced record “same store sales” results (6.5 percent year over year, YoY, at Target,...

Sales and marketing automation company Drift today announced the acquisition of Siftrock, a Seattle-based company that focuses on email reply management. Siftrock will continue to sell its standalone service, but the tec...

The European Commission is about to require Netflix, Amazon, and other video streaming companies to dedicate at least 30 percent of their catalogs to locally produced content, Variety reports today.

Google today launched Chrome 69 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS, just a few days after the browser's 10-year anniversary. The release includes a new design, more powerful omnibox, updated password manager, more...

Ubisoft is performing maintenance on its popular military shooter Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege today in preparation of the launch of its next season of new content. Grim Sky is the third season of Siege’s Year 3 u...

Martin Wistuba, a data scientist at IBM Research Ireland, described in a recent blog post and accompanying paper an automated AI algorithm selector. He claims it's 50,000 times faster than other methods with only a small...

OPINION: Wednesday will mark the fourth time in the past year that representatives from large tech companies have testified in front of Congressional bodies. What questions will they answer, and what should they answer?

Amazon has become the second U.S. company to hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion, after its share price briefly edged past the $2,050 mark this morning.

Data storage hacks are not only a pain, they can also be incredibly damaging to individual and company reputations and cost millions in lost revenue. An Australian teenager recently admitted to hacking Apple’s servers ...

EXCLUSIVE: If you are brave enough and willing to take risks, you stand to succeed in any greenfield market. And the world of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and distributed ledgers is no exception. Coefficient ...

International demand for wearables continues to grow at least a little every quarter, the latest IDC research shows, though the latest uptick -- 5.5 percent in 2018's second quarter -- still isn't huge.

Researchers at Amazon developed a natural language understanding (NLU) system that simultaneously recognizes in-domain (known) and out-of-domain (unknown) topics. The results will be presented at this year's Interspeech ...

As the international "race to 5G" approaches its second major public milestone -- the launches of commercial 5G networks -- the Chinese government and Chinese companies are rushing to launch both networks and hardware.

Auterion has raised $10 million in funding for its open source commercial drone operating system and launched its drone OS today as an enterprise version of the PX4 open source standard. The Zurich, Switzerland-based com...

REVIEW: Spider-Man has had a place in gaming since the Atari days, with the web-slinger starring in dozens of titles ranging from classics to, well, pretty terrible. Marvel’s Spider-Man, a PlayStation 4 exclusive from ...

At a press conference today in Indianapolis, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced that the commission will vote in three weeks on an order to speed 5G deployments across the United States, a plan based on bills alread...

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org ("Open Source Dataset and Machine Learning Techniques for Automatic Recognition of Historical Graffiti"), researchers describe a machine learning model to detect, iso...

Secret Location is unveiling Transpose, a dream-like, gravity defying virtual reality game where you manipulate time back and forth to solve puzzles. The game is set in a surreal world with computer graphics inspired art...

SPONSORED: "An esports program is a key recruiting tool," Nilsson says. "That comes back to the network. If the network doesn't support it as best it possibly can, they're going to lose recruits."

In a bid to expand its presence in India, Amazon announced today that it has created the first Hindi version of its Android app and website as it seeks to gain ground on rival Flipkart. Up until now, Amazon’s ecommerce...