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Huawei hasn’t had the best 2018 thanks to controversies over the security of its phones and networking gear, but that’s not stopping the company from continuing to innovate in the wearables space. Based on details ga...

Romance options in video games are often stiff and boring. Studios like BioWare give players relationships to build and, eventually, consummate. But those experiences often feel like you’re putting tokens into a charac...

An obscure feature in Apple’s Xcode development software enabled Apple Watch apps to make an instant transition from 32-bit to 64-bit last month, an unheralded win for Apple Watch developers inside and outside the comp...

Google has just stepped into the gaming-service arena. The company has revealed Project Stream. This is a test for its cloud-streaming platform. Think about Zeus rendering frames and throwing those at your laptop instead...

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The new head of Instagram is current vice president of product Adam Mosseri, who starts in his new role today. The appointment was widely anticipated, but the Facebook-owned company formally announced the news this morni...

LG seeks to build modules that help machines navigate autonomously. It today announced a service agreement with Robotis that will see the two develop a “self-driving module” for mobile robots. As part of the arrangem...

Google today announced five major changes to the Chrome Web Store. The first two are happening now: Developers are being subjected to a more rigorous review process, and the Chrome Web Store no longer accepts obfuscated ...

Arm designs have been used in more than 125 billion chips to date, and now they will become part of Xilinx’s field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs. FPGAs are flexible chips that can be programmed with a hardware des...

Project44, a real-time “visibility” platform that lets companies such as logistics firms track their shipments of goods, has raised $45 million in a round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from ...

EXCLUSIVE: Argentina’s economy and startup ecosystem might look frankly chaotic to the casual observer, but the situation is actually governed by countless subtle factors and shades of gray. Against this backdrop, cryp...

The season of candy and witches returns to Overwatch on October 9. Blizzard Entertainment announced today that the Halloween Terror event will return on that date, and it will run on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC s...

Launched last October to some fanfare, Steve Wozniak’s online technology training institute Woz U is coming under fire after student complaints prompted a CBS News investigation of the program. The investigation sugges...

Conversable, maker of automated bots for popular food chains such as McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s, Pizza Hut, Dunkin' Donuts, and Denny’s, was acquired today by LivePerson. Other companies using Conversable have been a...

Less than a year after announcing that it would launch the first commercial 5G network in the United States, Verizon today officially turned on 5G services in four U.S. cities: Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sac...

REVIEW: Amazon Fire TV. Apple TV. Roku. Chromecast. If the large — and growing — selection of set-top boxes vying for a spot beneath your television has you feeling overwhelmed, you’re not the only one. In 2016, th...

Myriad sensors go into making autonomous cars tick. Drive.ai‘s fleet of Nissan NV200 vans pack lidar (laser-based sensors that measure the distance between themselves and objects) in addition to radar, GPS, and inertia...

EXCLUSIVE: Real estate data is notoriously fragmented. More often than not, agencies find themselves in the unenviable position of having to manually collate disparate property, market, and demographic pipelines, typical...

The inaugural season of the NBA 2K League was a success by most measures. When it culminated in August, the esports series had more than 152 million video views across all social media platforms, and the league’s 17 te...

Prescription drug management software maker Kit Check today announced the introduction of a new AI system that assigns hospital staff a score to predict the likelihood they will steal opioids and other controlled substan...

SPONSORED: Presented by Helpshift It's a real statistic, and it's damning: 38 percent of consumers would rather clean a toilet than contact your customer service center. Customers just want their problems solved — and ...

REVIEW: For the second year in a row, Ubisoft is launching a new Assassin’s Creed game. Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the latest entry in the series. It follows the adventures of Greek mercenaries Alexios or Kassandra...