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Microsoft wants to bring its gaming fans together for a massive gathering. The company revealed that it is bringing back its Xbox expo this year with XO18 in Mexico City on November 10. This will give the company a chanc...

You’ve probably heard of fingerprint scans, iris scans, and perhaps even eye gaze scans, but what about foostep-based biometrics? New research published on the preprint server Arxiv.org investigates the use of artifici...

Valve Software doesn’t just distribute games and make digital hats. It also tracks how its Steam members interact with their software. Over the last several years, the company has looked at which controllers and gamepa...

Today is National Voter Registration Day in the U.S., and a bevy of tech companies are adding in in-app features to ensure their users know how to register to vote before the midterm elections. Here’s a roundup of some...

Fresh off of a newsy Monday, Microsoft had a few lingering announcements to share from its ongoing Ignite Conference in Orlando. One concerned Outlook mobile. In addition to new enterprise capabilities on the device mana...

A recently-announced partnership between Avnet and Not Impossible Labs has yielded a new type of wearable — a “Vibrotextile” vest with wrist and ankle bands that pulse in sync with live musical performances, enabli...

Twitter announced today that it will incorporate more user feedback before making policy changes, by releasing surveys that anyone can answer. The first survey will be rolled out today, and will be available for users to...

Pokémon Go has just reached two big milestones. The mobile AR game has now earned $2 billion, according to Apptopia, a third-party provider of app data. The location-based game has also introduced a new Pokémon for the...

As revolutions go, Ran Krauss wasn’t satisfied that drones were going far enough, fast enough. While the tiny flying machines offered potentially transformative services, Krauss figured drones would never reach their f...

Amazon today announced that developers with Alexa skills games can now sell Echo device owners things like extra lives or special powers in role-playing games, or hints in the middle of a trivia game. Initial voice apps ...

Capcom today released Monster Hunter: Stories for Android and iOS. The spinoff focuses on turn-based battles, making it more of a traditional role-playing game. The mobile version costs $20. Monster Hunter: Stories relea...

Despite Qualcomm’s multiple public attempts to patch up its relationship with Apple, the companies’ long-running legal battle has taken a nasty new turn: Qualcomm now claims Apple stole “vast swaths” of its confi...

MonkeyMedia aims to reduce motion sickness in virtual reality with BodyNav developer tools. You could call it an anti-barf tool. MonkeyMedia, the independent research lab in Austin, Texas, today announced the public rele...

Adult entertainment hub YouPorn is taking a leaf out of Spotify’s book with a new weekly playlist that uses “industry-leading machine learning systems” to serve up suggested videos for users. YouPorn is one of the ...

Sennheiser is partnering with Magic Leap. The audio-equipment company is providing its Ambeo tech to improve the immersion of augmented reality. Ambeo uses “transparent audio” that enables you to mix sound from the r...

Apple’s ultra-premium iPhone XS flagship phones hit stores last Friday, and after several days of testing, some users are reporting that the devices are falling short of their marketed specs. This year’s complaints: ...

Advance Local today announced the launch of Pigeon, a meme-sharing Facebook Messenger bot that gives anonymous users the ability to share content or vote up or down posts shared by other users. Initial trials began in la...

AppsFlyer, a mobile attribution and marketing analytics firm, said that Facebook still leads the market in app marketing performance, according to AppsFlyer’s latest Performance Index study. The study of the performanc...

Today marks the official launch of Firefox Monitor, a web-based tool that tells you if your email address has been subject to an online data breach. Mozilla first announced Firefox Monitor back in June, and in the interv...

Last year, Umbra unveiled a tool called Composit that will let you upload a complex 3D model to the cloud and then view it on any device. Now, the Helsinki, Finland-based company is showing how it can create a huge web-b...

In the market for connected deadbolts? You’re in luck — particularly if you’re partial to Yale. The Berlin, Connecticut-based company today announced the launch of new Assure Locks that, thanks to August’s eponym...

It’s been a newsy couple of days for Salesforce. Last week, the San Francisco company debuted Einstein Voice and Einstein Voice Bots — two voice assistant development platforms for enterprises — plus cloud-based pr...