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It’s a Friday show this week for the GamesBeat Decides podcast, and that means hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti are in a saucy mood. On this episode, the GamesBeat Decides crew talks about Call of Duty’s Blackout...

This week, at its big September iPhone and Watch event, Apple announced that iOS 12 will be available on September 17. With iOS 12 comes a series of new features for Siri, the most interesting of which are Siri Suggestio...

An Assassin’s Creed III remaster is coming with Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. This move has many fans raising their eyebrows. Despite selling over 7 million copies, Assassin’s Creed III has a reputation as one of the ...

Google today announced the integration of Sound Search into Now Playing to vastly improve its ability to recognize songs on Android phones. Now Playing, which was introduced last year, uses on-device machine learning to ...

OPINION: Google this week revealed it is killing Inbox by Gmail in March 2019 and killing Fabric in mid-2019. Both announcements were made on Apple’s iPhone day, largely burying the news. Coincidence? I think not! (In ...

Apple’s addition of dual SIM support to multiple new iPhones was one of the more interesting announcements at its Gather Round event on Wednesday, but the company waited until today to disclose some of the implementati...

Voice assistants aren’t just the stuff of smartphones, PCs, and smart speakers any longer — they’re migrating to cars. Amazon recently launched Alexa Auto SDK, a toolkit that lets developers adapt the retailer’s ...

As Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T openly prepare to challenge the broadband cable industry with next-generation 5G wireless alternatives, number two U.S. cable operator Charter is preparing two responses: blazingly faster w...

Twitch and PepsiCo announced today that they are bringing the Doritos Bowl to the livestreaming platform. This is an invitational competition that will have top broadcasters playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout...

Blockchain this and that. You hear it all the time now. I get pitched a few times per week, or sometimes per day, on new game startups that are using the security and transparency of the decentralized ledger technology. ...

SPONSORED: The Abyss is the next-generation digital distribution game platform that is the world's first blockchain project to execute DAICO, the fundraising model combining benefits of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Org...

Humans draw on an implicit understanding of the physical world to predict the motion of objects — and to infer interactions between them. If you’re presented with three frames showing toppling of cans — one with th...

Travel and tourism are huge. One of the largest industries in the world, the sector was valued globally at over $7.6 trillion in 2016 and isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Can blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies ...

EXCLUSIVE: Datasets are the lifeblood of machine learning algorithms — they “teach” artificial intelligence (AI) facts about the world, in a manner of speaking. And in domains such as autonomous driving, it’s vit...

OPINION: If you’re a fan of the humble headphone jack, look away now: It was not a good week for you. At Apple’s annual marketing extravaganza on Wednesday, the Cupertino company unveiled all manner of shiny objects,...

As of October 1, Verizon expects to be the first and only U.S. provider of next-generation 5G wireless services, but until now, its offerings were targeted solely at homes. Today, Verizon and Cradlepoint announced a part...

(Reuters) — Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said on Thursday the company would announce a decision on where it will build a second headquarters before the end of the year, and also said that President Donald Trum...

Artificial intelligence is transforming health care, which is hardly news to folks who’ve followed Google subsidiary DeepMind’s collaboration with the U.K.’s National Health Service or Nvidia’s recent investments...

A select few grocery shoppers in Oklahoma City will soon have their perishables delivered via self-driving car. Autonomous delivery vehicle startup Udelv today unveiled a partnership with Narnia Road and Esperanza Real E...

Nintendo gave fans a lot of what they wanted today. During its Nintendo Direct streaming event, the company made a lot of big announcements. Animal Crossing is coming to Switch. The publisher is making Luigi’s Mansion ...

Members of Congress sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats today asking for a report from intelligence agencies about the potential impact of deepfakes to democracy and national security. Members of...

As Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast, its intensity is coming into sharp relief. The Category 2 hurricane had sustained winds of 105 miles per hour at the time of writing, with tropical storm-force winds st...