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The PC market is seeing some very interesting moves this year. In Q2 2018, global shipments were up for the first time in six years — it was the first quarter of year-over-year global PC shipment growth since the first...

As much as I proclaim to be a lover of retro gaming and Nintendo, I’ve somehow never beaten Super Mario Bros. 3. Well, at least until last night, when I finally made my way through the NES classic’s eight worlds and ...

Over the last year, YouTube stars have used “beef” as a way to promote their personal brands. Jake and Logan Paul appropriated this idea from the rap scene, and they sanitized and monetized it because everything is a...

Robin Hunicke, CEO of Funomena and a well-known game designer, unveiled a demo of a planting game called Luna: Moondust Garden on the Magic Leap One Creator Edition augmented reality glasses. I tried out the demo at the ...

Having made a major investment in spatial computing startup Magic Leap back in July, AT&T today announced its next two steps for the partnership: building a 5G network at Magic Leap’s headquarters to test next-generati...

Artificially intelligent (AI) systems aren’t naturally good at asking questions; they have to be taught. It’s a core area of focus for Google, which taps natural language processing and other conversational AI techni...

Spider-man video game maker Insomniac unveiled a new augmented reality demo dubbed The Seedling for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR glasses. The Seedling lets you take care of a plant, which holds the promise to sa...

With the power of Lego and Blizzard combined, some hot new Overwatch merchandise is upon us. Blizzard is now selling the Lego Omnic Bastion set, which has 182 pieces. Lego Omnic Bastion is $25, and you can order it now t...

Magic Leap showed off a demo of Mica, a humanlike artificial intelligence that can be viewed in the company’s augmented reality glasses, the Magic Leap One Creator Edition. I saw a demo of Mica, a short-haired woman wh...

Magic Leap sees its spatial computing as a new medium. And so it makes sense that others will use the augmented reality platform to take things from older media, like Shakespeare’s plays, and put them into AR. The Roya...

Nexon today launched MapleStory 2 for PC around the world. The massively multiplayer online game has been available in South Korea and China, but the free-to-play game is now out in all other major regions (including the...

ILMxLAB, a division of Disney’s Lucasfilm dedicated to emerging platforms, showed off its Star Wars: Project Porg at the Magic Leap L.E.A.P. conference. The demo I saw will be available as part of a larger free downloa...

Google today announced that the camera within the Translate app for iOS and Android is now able to translate 13 new languages including Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Thai, and Vietnamese. The update is available starting today...

The sci-fi universe of Star Citizen hasn’t launched yet, which is nothing new. But it has a playable Windows PC version for dedicated fans, and Cloud Imperium Games is launching its quarterly update today, dubbed Alpha...

After casually using the word “Magicverse” to describe all the apps and games tied into Magic Leap’s spatial computing platform, the company officially trademarked the name in July. Now the concept is taking anothe...

Ubisoft announced today that For Honor has reached 15 million players. The multiplayer fighting game launched on February 14, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. This is another example of Ubisoft’s focus on game...

Hiring new employees is neither easy nor inexpensive. Bringing on a worker costs the average small business about $56,770 per head, according to a report published by the Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR)...

MongoDB, the New York-based company behind the popular eponymous open source NoSQL database, has acquired San Francisco cloud database provider MLab (styled “mLab”). The purchase price was $68 million, according to a...

VB LIVE: Smart customer service chatbots are cool. But there’s a reason companies like Amazon are ditching them in favor of a new generation of rules-based chatbots. Learn more about these easy-to-implement rules-based...

As we continue to find ways to make cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies relevant to mainstream audiences, many hardware wallet solutions are vying for market share. A mobile hardware wallet company, CoolBitX, re...

Carpooling isn’t just a smart way to cut down on weekly expenditures. It’s also good for the planet: Sharing a car with coworkers, friends, or neighbors keeps 1,600 pounds of greenhouse gas out of the air each year. ...

If there’s a holy grail for augmented reality, developing a magic-quality way to instantly merge the real and digital worlds would be it — and a newly unearthed Apple acquisition could bring that one step closer to h...