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Square Enix announced today that Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion, Shadowbringers, is coming summer 2019.

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene plans to leave to pursue investment and philanthropy. She will be replaced by former Oracle product chief Thomas Kurian.

Google researchers have developed an AI system that can grade prostate cancer cells on the Gleason system with 70 percent accuray.

The IBM Watson Immersive AI Lab in Austin, Texas employs Oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment to turn "terabytes into insights."

Amazon's second headquarters (HQ2) is really just two new offices in Queens, New York and Arlington, Virginia. This was the perfect bait and switch.

Gaming wearable startup Gameband said it will not be able to deliver its promised wearables to its fans as originally promised.

MIT CSAIL researchers have developed methods to reduce bias in predictive AI without the loss of accuracy. Full results will be shared next month at NIPS.

Researchers at Google subsidiary Deepmind and OpenAI have developed a system that achieves 'superhuman' performance on Pong and Enduro.

Planet Coaster turns 2 years old.

Microsoft's conversational AI has come a long way since its ill-fated Tay chatbot, and this week's announcements proved it.

Dean Takahashi's latest DeanBeat column asks if it's insane of Sony to pull out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or if E3 itself is insane.

Amazon's Wake-on-LAN Controller can power on smart devices over a local Wi-Fi or ethernet network and is supported by devices from VIZIO, LG, and Hisense.

The Rural Innovation Initative, led by a former Google executive, will help small towns develop a strategy for attracting more remote and digital jobs.

Microsoft is sunsetting HockeyApp, the beta-testing service for app developers, on November 16, 2019. Microsoft acquired HockeyApp in 2014.

Consumers in the U.S. will gain access to a European-developed alternative to GPS, providing 1-meter location accuracy to civilians.

Anki's Vector is picking up new tricks ahead of the holiday season, including bug fixes and new animations -- plus the beginnings of Alexa integration.

MayAnything, a location of things platform that layers intelligence on top of geographical data, announced a $42.5 million Series C funding round.

BlackBerry is set to acquire AI-powered cybersecurity startup Cylance for $1.4 billion, and is the latest in a line of cybersecurity acquisitions this year.

U.S. prosecutors have obtained a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, a federal court document showed on Thursday.

Coda's new Automations feature is a rule-based system that lets you automate repetitive, mundane tasks that'd otherwise be a major time sink.

China's censorship already has become the norm, crossing borders digitally, setting the stage as the industry standard for the world.

AI-powered bots and messaging are set to slash contact center size by 50 percent in the next five years, reducing costs and powering up the gig economy.