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CD Projekt Red announced today that it has entered into a “long-term strategic cooperation” with development studio Digital Scapes. The partnership will focus on CD Projekt Red’s upcoming role-playing game Cyberpun...

Intel has just revealed its upcoming 9th-gen Coffee Lake-R processors. The i9-9900K is the “best gaming CPU ever,” according to the company. It turbos up to 5GHz (on at least one core) with a total of 8 cores and 16 ...

Esports organization Fnatic will collaborate with social virtual reality firm Linden Lab’s Sansar so that fans can meet Fnatic esports athletes in VR. Sansar is creating the social VR site Fnatic Meta Bunkr, a virtual ...

Satellite broadcasting company Dish Network has largely stood on the sidelines as cellular and cable companies have started building out 5G networks, but that could change — assuming that Dish chairman Charlie Ergen is...

Google+, Google’s eponymous social network, is shutting down following the discovery of an exploit that could’ve allowed malicious developers parties to collect the data of hundreds of millions of users, according to...

On October 9 at 10 a.m. Eastern (7 a.m. Pacific) time, Google will kick off its third annual “Made by Google” hardware event. Unlike in previous years, the Mountain View company is hosting a press conference in New Y...

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The Fallout series works for a lot of reasons, and one of those is Inon Zur. The Israeli composer created the scores and theme songs for Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, and now he’s back for Fallout 76. Bethesda Softworks, wh...

Gladius has a pretty young crew. Max Niebylski, CEO and cofounder, started the company in July 2017 at the age of 18. He’s 20 now, but his whole crew is on the younger side. And they’re launching a blockchain-based s...

Google is adding a new automated closed captions feature to its Google Slides presentation program, one that creates real-time subtitles from the spoken word. The feature is rolling out globally from today; however, it w...

Daybreak Games and Standing Stone Games are launching a big update for Lord of the Rings Online today. The updated is called Where Dragons Dwell, and it will enable exploration of new and expanded regions. Players can no...

Microsoft revealed more of its cloud gaming initiative today, debuting the name Project xCloud. Project xCloud will use Microsoft Azure streaming tech to make Xbox gaming available on platforms like tablets and smartphon...

Roughly 600,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Parkinson’s every year, contributing to the more than 10 million people worldwide already living with the neurodegenerative disease. Early detection can result in s...

Intel confirmed earlier rumors at it unveiled its 9th Gen Core K-Series central processing unit (CPU), claiming it is the “best gaming processor in the world.” Intel's Anand Srivatsa, vice president and general manag...

Given that Apple has been making dedicated watches for over three years and computers with clocks for decades, there’s no excuse for recurring daylight savings bugs in its products. Yet it has happened once again: Some...

Kitchen United, a fledgling startup that’s setting out to help restaurants open to new markets without investing in additional real estate, has raised $10 million in a series A round of funding led by Alphabet’s vent...

PREVIEW: Fallout 76 must turn a series that’s been all about singe-player adventures in a post-nuclear apocalypse and creating something that’s fun in an online multiplayer scenario. Instead of aping mechanics from m...

Apple rarely disputes reports of its interactions with foreign governments, but the company spent the weekend actively denying last week’s Bloomberg story that alleged it has known since 2015 that China inserted spying...

Facebook today unveiled its first-ever consumer electronic device built from the ground up. Portal and Portal+ can display photos and videos posted by friends on Facebook and are made for AI-enhanced video calls with Fac...

Another day, another Chromebook — and this time around, it’s from HP. The Palo Alto company today announced the HP Chromebook x360 14, the newest convertible laptop in its product portfolio to run Google’s Chrome O...

Innit, a San Francisco startup that bills itself as a “connected food platform,” purchased wellness app Shopwell in February 2017. The app, which at acquisition time had racked up 2 million downloads, uses machine le...

Epic Games is making hundreds of millions of dollars from its Fortnite battle royale game, and now it’s putting that money to use. Epic announced today it has acquired game security and player services firm Kamu. Terms...