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'Overwatch' player Tazzerk recently announced he broke the level 1,800 barrier and posted the resulting golden portrait packing five stars. Naturally, he's not stopping there and plans to hit the top 500 in season three....

To keep you on Facebook longer or at least using its chat app, Facebook has launched an Instant Games feature for Messenger.The feature lets you instantly play titles within the chat app itself, and like FarmVille and ot...

Donald Trump's cabinet is coming together, and it's become impossible to ignore some real and direct connections to the world of video games, largely centering on his controversial picks for chief strategist, Steve Banno...

Twitter is fine-tuning your tweet replies in order to surface what it terms "better content." The company's support page lists its updates to conversations, which include "direct reply counts" and "conversation ranking."...

Members of the porn site xHamster should be changing their passwords today after a set of nearly 380,000 usernames, emails and poorly hashed passwords appeared online. The subscription-only breach notification site LeakB...

LG is entering the clean air market with new air purifiers and a dehumidifier that make up its new Puricare line of products. They clean and deodorize the air while also offering a sleek design that complements an innova...

Half a decade ago, Sangeet Choudary began to examine the rise of a fascinating new business model: the platform. He wondered: What was driving the meteoric ascent of companies like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb--and why wer...

Apple Music exec Bozoma Saint John was in attendance Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit this evening. Saint John, who joined Apple through the Beats Music acquisition, has become one of the more vocal members of the ...

As static as it may seem, Earth is a lively planet that changes almost constantly -- and Google just offered a clever way to see that development with your own eyes. In a partnership with Time, it's introducing a dramati...

Hulu is working on a live television streaming service, something we’ve known for a while, and it’ll be offering it long after a few competitors have launched their own similar products: Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, an...

The German Office for Information Security confirmed on Tuesday that not only had nearly a million routers on the Deutsche Telekom (DT) network been recently attacked but that the assault was part of a larger campaign st...

To very little fanfare, Yahoo today released a new mobile application for its Yahoo Answers Q&A service. Yahoo had quietly been testing the service under a different name, Yahoo Hive, but it has since rebranded the app t...

The crew hears from an expert building the autonomous future before discussing HBO's latest hit series that shows the scarier side of smarter tech.

Yahoo Answers has been the butt of many jokes for a long time now. But if you enjoy browsing through all the amusing questions people submit and tend to reply to some yourself, you'll love the latest update out of the co...

Apple will be adding certain Mac models to its list of obsolete and vintage products by the end of the year. If you own such a device, how will you be affected?

Over a decade after the death of famed author and psychonaut Hunter S. Thompson, a small part of his legacy might find new life--and a spot in a dispensary near you. On Sunday, Anita Thompson announced that she was partn...

AT&T is the latest company to offer a new alternative TV package that streams live broadcasts over the internet -- it's called DirecTV Now and for a limited time, customers can sign up for a promotional deal that offers ...

A significant number of companies in Poland have evolved into major players with a global reach in highly competitive fields. The country is slowly, but with resolve, finding its place on the global tech map. A few month...

President Obama has been urged to show leniency to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden by 15 intelligence experts, who were part of a 1970s congressional committee that investigated the CIA during the Watergate era.

Google has fed data from millions of satellite images of the Earth on its Google Earth Engine. This allows the application to show the development in any location on the planet in incredible time lapse.

Reports revealed that Cyanogen Inc. has already informed its employees last Nov. 28 that it will be closing its Seattle headquarters by the end of the year. The company has been struggling financially as it attempts to c...

Ecstasy isn't only for ravers--a small series of clinical trials have demonstrated taking MDMA can be an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration granted permis...