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Videoconferencing solutions firm Zoom announced a slew of new products and services this week at its annual Zoomtopia conference in San Jose. In addition to strategic partnerships with Dropbox and Atlassian, it took the ...

Amazon’s making it easier for Alexa developers to tap into connected security cameras and doorbells. The retailer today introduced three new APIs — Doorbell Event Source, Motion Sensor, and Alexa.RTCSessionController...

Google Assistant will soon be able to answer questions from the lock screen of Android smartphones. Today, Android phones can only respond to the “Hey Google” wake phrase when unlocked with a 4-digit pin or fingerpri...

EXCLUSIVE: At 19,447 people per square mile, Dhaka, Bangladesh is one of the world’s most densely populated cities. The metropolis of more than 18 million people is notoriously difficult to navigate; expensive real est...

Razer unveiled its second-generation Razer Phone 2 today in a bid to outdo Apple when it comes to making the best smartphone for gamers. The $800 device has a 120-hertz display and an 8-millisecond response time, making ...

Skillful, a Colorado-based skills training program geared toward helping more people without a college degree secure in-demand jobs, announced today that it is expanding to Indiana. Skillful was the recipient of a three-...

Home goods online retailer Wayfair demonstrated how you can become an interior decorator using the Magic Leap augmented reality glasses. The Boston company created an app called Wayfair Spaces on the Magic Leap One Creat...

Although unofficial iOS 12 installation rate numbers have circulated since shortly after the public launch on September 17, Apple today provided its first official statistics: 23 days after release, iOS 12 was installed ...

Facebook announced on Thursday that it has removed 559 pages and 251 accounts for routinely violating its rules against spam. These pages and accounts used fake accounts to rack up likes and shares, and pushed users towa...

Leveraging the extra “depth” data found in certain recent iPhone photographs, Facebook today announced a new feature called 3D Photos: images that look flat at first, but can be examined from different angles either ...

Today Amazon begins selling the third-generation Echo Dot, one of the best-selling smart speakers in the world. Without question, the third-generation Echo Dot outperforms its predecessor in sound quality as total sound ...

Back in September, kids virtual world firm Roblox raised $150 million in funding. Now it’s going to spend a little of that. Roblox has acquired mobile performance improvement firm PacketZoom for an undisclosed price. T...

Microsoft has been working on a next-generation version of its HoloLens augmented reality system for some time, and it may or may not* have been revealed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A new YouTube video titled ...

Google is teaming up with the National PTA, the U.S. nonprofit parent-teacher association, to launch a new program designed to teach parents how to educate their kids on various facets of online safety. The internet gian...

Cities: Skylines announced its next expansion today, Industries. It is coming to the city-building simulator on October 23. It will cost $15. Cities: Skylines launched for PC in 2015, and console versions for PlayStation...

Fyber, a big ad monetization company, said a survey it commissioned shows that 77 percent of brands report that they have asked their media agencies to invest in in-app advertising inventory. Traditionally, in-app purcha...

You've heard it from McKinsey, MIT, our own coverage, and elsewhere: Artificial Intelligence is a must-have capability for your business. These reports don't provide much data yet on the areas or functions within your co...

Mobile esports platform Skillz said an analysis of over 800 million mobile esports tournaments showed that people competing on phones with larger screen sizes win significantly more than those competing on devices with s...

If Call of Duty‘s new battle royale mode is accessible, then the Zombies experience is hardcore. You have to love dying over and over to get good at Zombies, as I learned in some play sessions at an Activision event. A...

Let’s face it: Email inboxes are unwieldy. For the average person, reading and replying to messages takes an enormous bite out of their workday — as much as two and a half hours. Worse, workers spend about 17 hours p...

Cellular network security is already important for phone calls and personal data, but in the 5G era it will become life-and-death critical as cars, hospitals, factories, and entire cities will depend on 5G networks for c...

Dan Bunting has worked at Treyarch for 15 years, and he picked a heck of a time to become the co-head of the Activsion-owned Call of Duty studio. As Mark Lamia moved up to become studio chairman, Bunting and his cohorts ...