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BitTorrent today announced that its latest creation, uTorrent Web, has passed 1 million daily active users. Although uTorrent Web had been available in beta for years, the web-based torrent client was finally released as...

Google’s keeping the Google Assistant, its AI-powered, cross-device voice and visual assistant, fresh with a steady stream of updates. Yesterday saw the rollout of an improved visual interface on Android and support fo...

Fake news continues to rear its ugly head; in March of this year, half of the U.S. population reported seeing deliberately misleading articles on news websites. A majority of respondents to a recent Edelman survey, meanw...

Amazon’s Alexa assistant can do lots of things, like play your favorite song when you walk into a room and follow up on questions it can’t answer right away. Skills — third-party voice apps — extend its functiona...

Blizzard Entertainment president and cofounder Mike Morhaime is no longer leading the gaming company he helped start in the 1990s. J. Allen Brack, the executive producer of World of Warcraft and longtime Blizzard employe...

One of the few remaining designers at Telltale Games says the developer just laid off more people. Narrative designer Rachel Noel was one of a small group of people who survived a recent mass layoff at the studio. She wa...

Detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department have reopened an investigation into soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. In 2009, a person named Kathryn Mayorga filed a complaint against Ronaldo. She claimed ...

If you’re a parent with young kids, you probably know how arduous it can be to screen a babysitter. According to a Care.com survey, roughly 51 percent of families opt not to hire a sitter because it’s too stressful t...

Public perception of self-driving cars isn’t exactly rosy — and that’s being generous. More than 60 percent of respondents to a recent Brookings poll said they were "not inclined" to ride in autonomous vehicles, an...

Computer vision company Clarifai today announced the release of General Model 1.5, which promises better accuracy for generic use of photo analysis powered by AI. The AI is used for a series of use cases ranging from soc...

Google created its Project Zero team to improve internet security — including both Google and third-party products — so the fact that its researchers found bugs in Apple’s Safari web browser isn’t particularly su...

Mozilla, the nonprofit behind Firefox, announced today an “election bundle” it’s pushing to help users protect themselves from misinformation and misleading advertising in the run-up to the U.S. midterms. On Monday...

(Reuters) — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is moving ahead with plans to revise safety rules that bar fully self-driving cars from the roads without equipment like steering wheels, pedals, a...

Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects movement, impacts more than ten million people worldwide; roughly 60,000 are diagnosed each year. Early detection can forestall the onset of severe symptom...

The company Dream is named appropriately. For three years, it has been working on an online collaboration tool that enables people to view web sites on the Chrome browser in virtual reality. It’s like the operating sys...

Nomadic will open its first virtual reality arcade featuring the first-person shooter game Arizona Sunshine in Orlando, Florida. San Rafael, California-based Nomadic will partner with Rotterdam, The Netherlands-based Ver...

In book and film forms, Ready Player One popularized the concept of The Oasis — a central hub connecting all VR experiences to one another using persistent avatars and consumables. This month, HTC Vive users will get t...

DeepMind is furthering its cancer research efforts with a newly announced partnership. Today, the London-based Google subsidiary said that it has been given access to mammograms from roughly 30,000 women that were taken ...

Searching for a job online can be an exercise in frustration. More than 60 percent of the roughly one-fifth of Americans who change jobs every year have abandoned an application because it was too lengthy, according to O...

EXCLUSIVE: Yes, esports is sizzling hot. So much so that porn webcam platform CamSoda wants to get in on the action by sponsoring a competitive gaming athlete for up to $100,000. New York-based CamSoda will expand into e...

While the looming era of quantum computing promises massive increases in processing power, it has also sparked fears that it will render today’s digital security useless. So even as scientists and corporations seek to ...

A bombshell Bloomberg report today suggests that the Chinese government has been hacking American companies in a fairly astonishing manner: inserting tiny chips into computers manufactured in China. The report suggests t...