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As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to threaten new rounds of tariffs against China, Apple is warning that a proposed 25 percent tax on $200 billion of Chinese goods will impact a number of its product lines.

Amazon's cashierless Amazon Go chain is coming to New York. It's the third location, following hot on the heels of the second store's opening in Seattle.

Overwatch is one of the games that Humble Monthly subscribers are getting over the next 30 days as part of that $12-per-month service. Blizzard’s popular class-based team shooter debuted in May 2016, and it has continu...

Researchers have developed a method that minimizes bias in word embeddings. It could reduce gender prejudice in machine learning models.

OPINION: As always, I considered writing about a lot of topics for my column this week. I wanted to talk about Chrome’s 10-year anniversary, how many smartphone cameras is too many smartphone cameras, or that Jack seem...

Microsoft has sent out invites for an October 2 event in New York City with the phrase "a moment of your time." We are expecting new Surface hardware, but a Surface Phone is unlikely to be announced.

AI isn't coming for your jobs, analysts at Tata Communications and the McKinsey Institute say. Rather, it'll create new ones and lead to untold wealth and prosperity.

After a cluster of bad press, Apple finally pulled the app Adware Doctor: Anti Malware &Ad from the Mac App Store, where it had been quietly gathering users' private information and sending it to a server in China.

Startup Standard Cognition today announced plans to open a cashierless store in San Francisco in the coming days. Named Standard Market, the store will operate with limited hours and is a testing site for artificial inte...

Spider-Man debuts today on the Sony PlayStation 4, and that’s about as big a kick-off event you can get for the Triple-A games of the fall. It reminds me that it’s time for me to map out my favorite upcoming games of...

ANALYSIS: If you look carefully through 2018’s numerous 5G device announcements, one concerning thread has persisted since early in the year: a hint that early 5G devices might be unappealingly large. Qualcomm acknowle...

SPONSORED: New Zealand-based Digital Confectioners is in the process of following up its shark versus human multiplayer action game, Depth, with another multiplayer outing featuring yet more sharks.

2K Games announced today that Civilization VI is coming to Nintendo Switch on November 16. This is the first time a Civilization game is coming to a home console since the release of Civilization Revolution in 2008, whic...

Tor Project, the not-for-profit body behind the anonymizing Tor browser that lets you access the internet without being tracked, has launched the first official Tor mobile browser app. Tor Browser for Android is availabl...

Europe’s privacy law significantly altered prices and demand for different types of mobile ads in the first half of 2018, according to a report by Smaato, a real-time advertising platform for mobile publishers and app ...

Americans get a raw deal on the cost of mobile calling and data services compared to the rest of the world. With the average monthly phone bill now at over $80 per month and high roaming charges for anyone traveling inte...

Machine translation has come on leaps in recent years, with myriad online tools and apps serving as decent alternatives to the arduous process of, well, learning a new language yourself. A few months back, Microsoft clai...

The Overwatch League is adding six new esports teams from around the world, bringing the roster to 20 teams altogether from all over the world. The new teams are based in Chengdu, Hangzhou, Paris, Toronto, Vancouver, and...

EXCLUSIVE: Austin, Texas-based startup Pani aims to shed light on our habitual water overconsumption. It announced a $1 million seed round led by Blake Chandlee, the former vice president of global partnerships at Facebo...

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago-based mobile parking startup ParkWhiz announced a $20 million funding round led by NewSpring, bringing its total accrued capital to $56 million.

Ubisoft showed off its new entry in the “toys-to-life” market, Starlink: Battle for Atlas. I played it at a recent preview event on the Nintendo Switch and got hands-on with Starfox character Fox McCloud, which Ninte...

And to think I was just lamenting the fact that the end of Elon Musk's quixotic bid to take Tesla private meant we wouldn’t have anything fun to say about the company's intrepid leader. Ah, how very wrong I was! Tesla�...