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Amazon is considering an expansion plan for its Go cashierless stores that would open 3,000 locations by 2021, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. That seems like a lot, especially since Amazon only has fou...

Arkadium, which creates visual and interactive content for more than 500 online news publishers, today announced it has bought out its early-stage investor, Edison Ventures. The price of the deal wasn’t disclosed. New ...

Nintendo Switch Online is live, and I gave the company my $20. I get the occasional itch to play Rocket League or Mario Tennis Aces against real people. I want to keep that option. The low price is also right in the meat...

Rumors that 2018’s iPad Pros could adopt USB-C interfaces took an apparent step forward today, as iOS developer Steve Troughton-Smith (via MacRumors) discovered a new feature nestled within the Xcode Simulator for iOS ...

(Reuters) — John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data thro...

Rockstar Games announced that Red Dead Online, a new online connected experience set against the backdrop of Red Dead Redemption 2‘s enormous open world, will debut in November first as a public beta test. The new mult...

Somewhere on Earth, monks are chanting in an abandoned castle. Their mantra calls into the darkness. It is a prayer to resurrect the demon Konami.

Move over, Amazon: Google has captured the smart speaker crown. According to a report today from Strategy Analytics, Google Home Mini was the best-selling voice-enabled speaker in the second quarter of 2018, followed by ...

Perfect365, an augmented reality beauty app with more than 100 million users, has integrated the Kin cryptocurrency in a bid to bring more women into the crypto market. Through the integration, Perfect365 becomes a major...

Code collaboration and DevOps platform GitLab has raised $100 million in a series D round of funding led by Iconiq Capital, with participation from existing investors GV and Khosla Ventures. The latest round of funding c...

Amazon’s got Alexa. Microsoft has Cortana. And Google has the Google Assistant. It seems like practically every tech giant has its own voice platform, at this point, and Salesforce just joined the list. The San Francis...

Card games are an important and growing market in video games worth $1.3 billion in 2017, research firm Superdata reports, and should hit $1.7 billion in 2019. Blizzard's Hearthstone rules, making 3.3 times more than its...

Bias is a serious problem in artificial intelligence (AI). Research shows that popular smart speakers are 30 percent less likely to understand non-American accents, for example, and that facial recognition systems such a...

Known for its data management software, San Francisco-based Scality today announced its first full release of a subscription cloud management tool. Zenko 1.0 is now generally available for enterprise users and is designe...

Rokoko makes a SmartSuit Pro that captures all of an actor’s movements and turns them into digital motion assets that can be used in games or movies. And today, the company is going to make them much more accessible to...

Cryptocurrency trading platform OKCoin is announcing today it will list five new cryptocurrency tokens for trading, making its digital asset exchange more diverse. OKCoin is now listing these convertible virtual currenci...

Improbable announced today Aaryn Flynn is joining the cloud-based game tools maker as its general manager and will run its office in Edmonton, Alberta. Flynn served as general manager at BioWare, where he worked on role-...

Valve has been publicly working on finger-tracking Knuckles VR controllers for long enough that the word “new” doesn’t seem appropriate any more, even though they haven’t yet shipped to consumers. Now the develop...

I got a sneak peak at the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, thanks to a demo of the new mixed reality version of Angry Birds. Magic Leap says owning these augmented reality glasses (Magic Leap calls it mixed reality) will ...

It’s a perennial problem for enterprises: too many system-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to juggle. Firms in 2017 used about 16 cloud-hosted apps on average, up about 33 percent year-over-year, and 70 percent of those f...

The new Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti and 2080 graphics cards need to matter. They may end up mattering at some point. But, for now, Nvidia has to pretend they matter. This is an opportunity for Nvidia. We reached the end of graphi...

I’ve played Angry Birds many times before but never like this. Rovio Entertainment and Resolution Games showed off a demo of their upcoming mixed reality (MR, or augmented reality, AR, if you prefer) game for Magic Lea...