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Ride-hailing service Lyft just announced a key milestone: It has now surpassed 1 billion rides since it was founded in 2012. The San Francisco-based company reported half a billion rides last October, meaning it has doub...

Jaunt, which pivoted from making cinematic VR films to providing platform tools for mixed reality, announced that its CEO George Kliavkoff is stepping down as CEO. He will be replaced by Mitzi Reaugh, Jaunt’s former vi...

Machine learning algorithms tend to be specialized — they excel at singular, highly repetitive tasks. (Think generating synthetic scans of brain tumors.) But a new paper published by researchers at the Massachusetts In...

Streets of Rage 4 is real. Publisher DotEmu and developer Lizard Cube are making it right now. Their goal is to build a sequel to Sega’s classic beat-’em-up franchise that feels like the original team made it using t...

Apple’s promise of transparency regarding user data means that any new privacy policy update might reveal that it’s doing something new and weird with your data. Alongside yesterday’s releases of iOS 12, tvOS 12, a...

Microsoft today announced a series of new AI and mixed reality services for workplace software Dynamics 365, including HoloLens-powered tools and intelligence built to make marketing and sales teams work better. Mixed re...

SPONSORED: Presented by Intel It seems like the entire gaming industry is trying to chase the popularity of battle royale shooters. But at least one indie developer believes it has what it takes to stand out from the Pla...

Capcom wants to focus on games like Monster Hunter: World, so it is taking resources it was putting into its Vancouver team and bringing them back home.

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is headed to PC next month. Developer CD Projekt Red announced today that this side-story adventure will hit its GOG service October 23. Console players will then get The Witcher diversio...

Only a day after publicly releasing iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5, Apple has launched the first developer betas for iOS 12.1, tvOS 12.1, and watchOS 5.1. Depending on the device and prior OS version, the iOS betas range...

EXCLUSIVE: Influencer marketing is on the rise, you might have heard. There’s sound logic driving that growth: About 30 percent of consumers are more likely to buy a product recommended by a “non-celebrity blogger,�...

Hearthstone revealed info about its future, both with new additions that Blizzard will add (including new Classic cards) and an announced upcoming feature that is now on hold (Tournaments). Hearhstone is a big money-make...

YouTube is creating a new Gaming destination. The video site serves game-related content to more than 200 million people each day, according to YouTube. So the company is aiming to improve their experience within YouTube...

Maison Me today announced the closure of a $1 million funding round to expand it’s outfit recommendation AI and launch a custom dress service. The Maison Me website to held people create custom dresses launches today, ...

The AI Foundation today announced the closure of a $10 million funding round to commercialize products that benefit humanity. AI Foundation declined to go into details about the kinds of products it plans to commercializ...

​BlueStacks has launched a new version of its mobile gaming platform, which uses virtualization technology that lets you play Android mobile apps on a PC. BlueStacks 4 is eight times better in performance over the curr...

Ever heard of Alexa Gadgets? They’re Bluetooth devices that “enhance” voice interactions with compatible Amazon Echo devices (think connected lightbulbs synced to a killer soundtrack). Amazon made available a softw...

REVIEW: InXile Entertainment's approach to music and puzzle design make The Bard's Tale IV a standout RPG.

Machine learning is a powerful tool, no doubt, capable of diagnosing lung cancer, besting champion Go players, and navigating the labyrinthine streets of San Francisco. But the neural networks that underly it tend to be ...

Nintendo announced the Fortnite - Double Helix Switch Bundle today. It includes a Switch, 1000 V-bucks (Fortnite’s in-game currency), and the Double Helix cosmetic set (which includes an outfit, backpack, glider, and p...

Shopify will enable sellers to offer on-demand 3D-printed goods via an integration with Shapeways. Shapeways, for the uninitiated, is a 3D printing platform for designing, creating, and selling all kinds of goods — it ...

Skillz has grown its mobile esports at an accelerated rate this year, as the company announced its revenue rate has grown to $400 million in August, compared to $200 million just five months before in February. The San F...