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The Drone Racing League (DRL) will host a series of races and competitions where autonomous drones will try to beat a professional drone pilot. Teams of university students and other drone enthusiasts will be invited to ...

A hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday quickly devolved into squabbling about whether Twitter is biased against conservatives. While Wednesday’s hearing was called in ...

Nielsen wants to get better at tracking video games. To fill in the digital-shaped gap in its data reporting, the market analysis firm has acquired industry intelligence firm SuperData Research, which extrapolates data e...

The Tor Project today released Tor Browser 8.0 with a new user onboarding experience, an updated landing page, additional language support, and new behaviors for bridge fetching, displaying a circuit, and visiting .onion...

Meditation app Headspace has acquired Alpine.ai, a startup that helps brands create voice apps like Alexa skills or Google Assistant actions. Part of the Alpine.ai team will join Headspace and report directly to CTO Padd...

Roblox has been on a tear. It grew from 48 million monthly active users last year to more than 70 million now. And it announced today that it has raised $150 million in a new round of funding from Tiger Global Management...

Following last week's apparent confirmation of the "iPhone Xs" name for the 5.8-inch sequel to Apple's iPhone X, multiple reports are claiming that Apple has picked an unusual name for its 6.5-inch model: "iPhone Xs Max...

VB EVENT: AI and machine learning is transforming corporations internally, driving changes at all different levels, from tasks and business processes to marketing, sales forecasting, and even entire business models. How ...

Call of Duty is finally going to enable you to say “Nuketown” when your friends ask you “where we dropping?” The official Twitter account for the long-running shooter series posted the first look at the map for C...

When Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, it was the fourth such hearing held by the committee in the past year on how foreign act...

GameWorks Inc. announced today that it has new ownership. The arcade chain is now run by ExWorks Capital. GameWorks has seven locations across the nation, including in cities like Las Vegas, Denver, and Seattle. The comp...

Ericsson is offering carriers a software upgrade called Ericsson Spectrum Sharing, which can turn their existing 4G towers into hybrid 4G/5G towers - starting in 2019.

As part of its ongoing redemption mission, Uber is today introducing a new feature that checks if you’re OK if it thinks that you may have been involved in a crash. The Ride Check feature, which is expected to roll out...

Google today announced a new cohort of AI startups selected to join its Developer Launchpad Studio, a four-month, product-focused startup accelerator held at the Google Developers Launchpad Space in San Francisco. Partic...

Language learning app Drops will be the first multi-language app to offer native Hawaiian as a language on iOS and Android. In doing so, the company hopes to revive interest in a language that is otherwise dying out. The...

AISense said the latest version of voice app Otter can transcribe event keynotes and panel presentations via Otter Live, a new feature that simulcasts real-time transcripts of what's being said.

RealNetworks is launching Scener, a web-based platform that lets you leave synchronized commentary on shows and movies streaming on Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. The service lets you add a layer of social commentary to you...

Walmart has announced a new in-house pilot delivery service that crowdsources independent drivers to fulfill the “last-mile” delivery process. The grocery giant is working with a third-party company called Delivery D...

Despite recording a 33.7 percent drop in worldwide shipments of VR headsets during 2018's second quarter, IDC is forecasting a sunny outlook for future quarters.

Mozilla today launched Firefox 62 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release builds on Firefox Quantum, which the company calls “by far the biggest update since Firefox 1.0 in 2004.” Version 62 brings variable...

MacPaw's CleanMyMac X launches today as the best whole-system cleaner around -- a Swiss Army knife of simple tools that radically slim a Mac's software footprint, improve performance, and augment Apple's existing malware...

Tailor Brands, a company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help companies automate elements of their marketing and branding, has announced a new AI-powered social media management tool that automatically cre...