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Magic Leap announced details of its indie creator funding program, which will give grants from $20,000 to $500,000 for apps for the Magic Leap One glasses.

Facebook is giving more details on how it's enforcing its community standards, the day after the New York Times published an investigation about how it dealt with Russian interference.

Google Cloud AI head of R&D Jia Li has left the company, a spokesperson told VentureBeat. Li may plan to launch her own startup.

Sony revealed today that it will not be attending the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2019.

Sony revealed that the PlayStation 4 has sold over 86.1 million systems.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously floated the idea of creating a "social media supreme court," and Facebook says it will be testing the idea in 2019.

Citrix has acquired Sapho, whose micro-app platform is integrated with more than 50 SaaS products. Sapho's tech will be integrated into Citrix Workspace.

In one day, Supercell got more than 5 million people to pre-register for its next mobile game, Brawl Stars, which has been in soft launch for a while.

In a recent interview, Richard Yu, CEO of the Huawei's consumer group, told CNBC that the company plans to develop an international voice assistant.

Myst and Riven publisher Cyan has shifted into virtual reality games, and it is moving further in that direction as the publisher of the VR game, Zed.

Baobab's Crow: The Legend debuts as short film on Oculus Rift and Oculus Go virtual reality headsets.

Google has made a dataset of 50 million drawings collected from its Quick Draw web experiment available through Google Cloud Platform.

Rolling out at different speeds for different smartwatches, Google's latest update will use new tricks to conserve battery power and preserve app states.

Within one brutal hour yesterday, Bitcoin's price plummeted by around $800. The coin is trading under $5,800 for the first time since its October 2017 boom, and cryptocurrency investors are hurting on a global scale.

Automation Anywhere has raised over $300 million from SoftBank's Vision Fund, valuing the company at $2.6 billion.

Looking to take the reins on wireless and AI chip designs, Apple is now hiring engineers in San Diego, the stomping grounds of its one-time modem supplier.

Smart dashcam company Owl is rolling out an automatic crash response service that will alert emergency services if a crash is detected.

THQ Nordic isn't done acquiring things this week. The publisher announced today that it has acquired the Expeditions series.

Google parent company Alphabet has announced that it's shutting down robotics team Schaft after trying -- and failing -- to find a buyer.

Astro Gaming has unveiled its Astro C40 TR Controller for PlayStation 4 and PC players.

Apple's Siri currently shuts down when it can't ask Apple's servers for help interpreting voice commands. But that could soon change with an offline mode.

Discord wants you to have the choice to buy unfinished games on its platform. It then wants to give you access to those developers directly.