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REVIEW: The LG V40 ThinQ, the latest flagship from Korean electronics giant LG, is finally here. It packs Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line Snapdragon 845 system-on-chip, a bright and colorful OLED screen, and an ultra-loud s...

The LG V40 ThinQ isn’t all LG announced at its event in New York City today. It also took the wraps off the LG Watch W7, a smartwatch that’s something of a hybrid. Rather than make due with just a color touchscreen, ...

GUEST: Today, PitchBook revealed its 2018 Chicago VC Ecosystem report, released in conjunction with ChicagoNEXT's Chicago Venture Summit. This report finds that Chicago continues to outpace every other U.S. venture ecosy...

Freelancing platform Upwork’s IPO received a hearty welcome on Wall Street as its public debut on the markets capped an unlikely journey for this survivor of the original dot-com bubble era. In early trading, Upwork’...

ANALYSIS: Apple doesn’t hold events every October, but when it does, they tend to be important — not as important as its September iPhone events, but an opportunity to spotlight significant new iPad and/or Mac develo...

Facebook now gives users who decide to delete their accounts a 30-day grace period to change their minds, the Verge reported. This is a 16-day increase over the previous 14. A Facebook spokesperson told the Verge that th...

VB EVENT: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the Hot Topic for a while now. Everyone's writing about it breathlessly: it's the future of business, kicking nerdy data analytics in the face as it takes a quantum leap in...

The Nazi-killing superarchaeologist is back. GOG has just released Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine on its game distribution service for $6. This is the first time the game has been on a digital storefront. Now, fa...

EXCLUSIVE: Last year, Hurricane Harvey caused an estimated $125 billion in damage to the state of Texas, with Houston being one of the cities hit hardest. Now, the city government is still grappling with one of the most ...

Starting today, developers creating voice apps for Google Assistant can make more visual experiences and sell subscriptions directly to users during conversations with the Assistant on Smart Displays, smartphones, and Ho...

A $200 keyboard is unnecessary. You can get a great mechanical gaming keyboard for $70. You can add RGB LED for a bit more. And really what else do you need? Well, Razer has some ideas about that, and it put them into it...

NYU Wireless announced it has received the largest donation in its history, courtesy of Keysight Technologies. The organizations have a clear purpose in mind: to create next-generation 6G cellular technologies and furthe...

(Reuters) — Honda will invest $2 billion and take a 5.7 percent stake in General Motors’ Cruise self-driving vehicle unit, to jointly develop self-driving vehicles for deployment in ride services fleets around the wo...

Drone operations management company Kittyhawk today announced the closure of a $3 million funding round led by strategic investor Travelers, a home and property insurance company. The funding will be used to expand Kitty...

Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks has announced plans to acquire Menlo Park-based cloud security startup RedLock in an all-cash deal worth $173 million. Founded in 2005, Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cyberse...

Verizon’s 5G cellular network is only two days old, but given all the hype over the next-generation wireless standard, it’s no surprise that independent testers are already trying to determine whether it lives up to ...

REVIEW: Mario Party is due a renaissance. It hasn’t felt all that much different since it debuted on the Nintendo 64 way back in 1998. You now have motion controls and online multiplayer, and in the tabletop world, hun...

IronSource is launching a new way for app and game developers to accurately measure ad revenue on the user level and then link that data to the marketing channel that brought in that specific user. The mobile monetizatio...

Mobile game publisher Jam City wants players to get out to vote for the U.S. midterm elections, and it’s partnering with the national, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization When We All Vote to drive online voter reg...

It’s been two years since Amazon revamped the Fire TV Stick, an HDMI dongle running an entertainment-centric variant of the retailer’s Fire OS operating system, and the intervening months have seen the launch of both...

The Wi-Fi Alliance today announced a significant rebranding of the “802.11” Wi-Fi standards that have long served as a source of potential confusion for users: Going forward, the current 802.11ac standard will be kno...

Keeping control of your finances can mean the difference between being able to afford that daily avocado toast or struggling to pay rent. Millennials already have a wide range of financial pressures to deal with, so anyt...