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Nintendo’s ’90s experiment with virtual reality, the Virtual Boy, is often the butt of jokes. But the doomed portable system had some great games. 3D Tetris, literally a three-dimensional take on the classic puzzler ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) underlies many, if not most, of Google Search’s features. It’s how Google News personalizes podcast, video, and article recommendations, and how Google’s lightweight Search app for Andr...

Google today launched Android Studio 3.2, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with over 20 new features, including a few related to Android Pie and the new Android App bundle. You can down...

Desk phones are a staple of office cubicles everywhere. But with as many as a third of employees relying on mobile devices for day-to-day communications, it seems their days are numbered. In anticipation of that shift, P...

Our eyes wander as we read text, and not just in the figurative sense — between a series of rapid motions called saccades, eyes remain still for just 200-300 milliseconds on average. Those movements are rich with subte...

Tencent and PUBG Corp. announced details today for a tournament for the mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Star Challenge will be a global event featuring teams of professional gamers, internet personalit...

It’s the first day of Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, and the Seattle company has already made a slew of announcements. It launched a $40 million AI for Humanitarian Action initiative, introduced a...

As promised during September 12’s Gather Round event in Cupertino, Apple today released macOS Mojave — aka macOS 10.14 — to the general public. Mojave was originally revealed in beta form during Apple’s Worldwide...

Snap is stepping up its efforts to become a destination for ecommerce, and it’s got a powerful new partner to do so. The ephemeral camera company announced today that it is partnering with Amazon to test a visual searc...

Slack, the cloud-based collaboration tool used by more than eight million people across thousands of companies, is folding an email client into its ever-expanding software portfolio. The San Francisco company announced t...

Originally announced in 2017, Apple confirmed today that it has completed its acquisition of Shazam, the music-identification app that has been downloaded over a billion times since its release. Apple also announced that...

Red Dead Redemption 2 will sell itself thanks to its promise of a rich single-player narrative, a large open world set in the frontier west, and good will from the last game. But Rockstar Games’ cowboy adventure can al...

Nexon and its mobile-game studio Big Huge Games are teaming up with History (the creator of the History Chanel) to bring iconic weapons showcased on television to the DomiNations mobile strategy game. The weapons of the ...

Roku has revealed that Google Assistant is coming to Roku devices via a software update in the coming weeks. This means that you will soon be able to control your Roku-branded streaming device by uttering a voice command...

In the future envisioned by 0x, traditional investments into things like real estate or company stock will happen on the blockchain. Backed by real assets, security tokens will exchange in a way that makes the transactio...

For web publishers, engagement is a valuable metric. In fact, Parse.ly, a content optimization platform, claims audience attention — which it defines as the way topics, moments, contexts, locations, devices, and source...

Apple and enterprise app powerhouse Salesforce today announced a new partnership that will boost the number and quality of mobile business applications across iPhones and iPads. Under the deal, Apple will help deeply int...

Big data is big business. About 53 percent of companies in 2017 said they’ve adopted some form of data analytics, and the industry’s forecast to hit $103 billion by 2027 (up from $49 billion in 2018). But not all pla...

Microsoft today introduced the AI for Humanitarian Action initiative, a $40 million, five-year plan to support developers interested in creating tools and services with the goal of helping humanity. The initiative will f...

Microsoft is today introducing a number of new AI services for the workplace, including new ways to speed the training of AI systems, custom Cortana voice apps for the enterprise, and a new service for the automated crea...

At Microsoft’s Ignite enterprise technology conference this week in Orlando, Florida, the company announced that Microsoft Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations. That’s up from 200,000 organizations in March, an...

Microsoft 365 users will soon have a number of new AI-powered features, from image recognition that automatically generates Excel spreadsheets to automated meeting transcripts from Microsoft Teams video calls. Microsoft ...