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German HR start-up Personio just secured a $75 million funding round led by Accel, which values the company at close to $500 million.

The EU's proposal for a temporary ban on facial recognition won backing from Google CEO Sundar Pichai but not from Microsoft President Brad Smith.

Fintech and A.I. are continuing to attract the lion's share of VC cash coming into British early-stage companies but as the climate change conversation becomes more urgent, green electricity is now number three in the in...

In a recent survey I conducted for this series on carbon offsets, I learned that 10.3% of respondents felt that buying carbon credits for a home or small business would be a form of cheating, that they should instead dir...

The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card is poweful and competitive. It is going to reshape the graphics market throughout 2020 and beyond.

Game delays are a constant threat for developers, and they are coming fast and furious in early 2020. Most major games are now coming later in the year.

Researchers at IBM proposed an AI that's inspired by fruit fly biology. They say it outperforms classical algorithms at tasks like generating hash codes.

The use of profanity in customer service interactions is prohibited in many organizations. New psychological research suggests that that could be a mistake.

Microsoft is open-sourcing an optimized version of Google's BERT that uses ONNX Runtime and CPUs or GPUs to speed language model performance.

Soft skills are a core ingredient for success, professionally and personally. However, just like everything in life, when taken to the extreme, soft skills can backfire.

Daybreak Games is making some big moves, creating three new studios that will each dedicate themselves to one of the company's big MMO franchises.

Moving around and shooting, as if you were on a skateboard, is the way to survive in Doom Eternal, says creative director Hugo Martin.

Research shows that remote workers accomplish more in less time, experience lower levels of stress, feel more connected with their colleagues and are less likely to quit their job. Here's how to measure the performance o...

You have to run and gun with a lot of weapons in Doom Eternal if you want to survive the legions of hell as they invade Earth once again.

Berkshire Grey, a Lexington, Massachusetts-based robotics company, has rasied $263 million from SoftBank and other investors.

A previously undisclosed discussion between Apple and the FBI led the tech company to drop plans to encrypt cloud backups of users' private data.

Intezer, a cybersecurity startup that detects threats by analyzing malware code, has raised $15 million from Intel, Samsung, and other big names.

When CannaSafe President Aaron Riley was 19, he was on the brink of a promising future until things went drastically awry. It's the type of story you see frequently portrayed in movies. Except in Riley's case, it was onl...

Part of this retrospection is inspired by what's around us; website everywhere recap and rank the best and worst of the year, and perhaps it's only natural for us to consider our own year in kind.

AppsFlyer has raised $210 million in funding to accurately measure mobile ad spending and "democratize" mobile marketing.

The target for any nascent or startup business should be how to separate itself as early as possible into an emergent industry leader.

It's critical to cultivate a culture of respect to help engage employees and prevent burnout in your organization.