Apple has unveiled a collection of new Apple Watch bands for spring, focusing on new Woven Nylon bands and color variations on the leather Hermès bands. Nike’s Sport Loop will also be sold alone. This is a developing story and will be updated shortly. | Continue reading
In the latest sign of mounting frustration with U.S. tech companies, the European Commission today proposed sweeping new taxes that would largely target companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. The EC plan is tough, but faces an uncertain future as it must be approved by a … | Continue reading
Fraud detection startup Sift Science has raised $53 million in a series D round of funding led by Manhattan-based VC firm Stripes Group, with participation from existing investors including Union Square Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, and Spark Capital. This takes Sift Scienc … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Dropbox has raised the price range for its initial public offering by $2 following strong demand for the first big tech IPO this year. The cloud storage company now expects the offering to be priced between $18 and $20 per share, up from its previous range of $16 to $ … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Presented by VMware There’s a growing gap between employees’ expectations for a productive experience and organizations’ needs to maintain security. The only way to address this is to use modern AI technologies within an intelligent digital workspace. All too often, c … | Continue reading
Slovokia-based AeroMobil plans to expand its lineup of flying cars to include an electric version that allows for vertical takeoffs but can also drive around cities on roads. The AeroMobil 5.0 VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) is designed to complement the version that is the c … | Continue reading
Microsoft is evaluating how it could use data it gathers about people who use Bing and its Edge browser to improve its suite of business applications, including its customer relationship management, marketing, and service software. It’s part of the expansive future plans that Mic … | Continue reading
Microsoft unveiled a massive set of updates today aimed at improving its business applications, including its Dynamics 365 suite and Power BI analytics service. The new products and features announced today are all aimed at making the technology giant more competitive against the … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Amazon.com became the second most valuable publicly listed U.S. company on Tuesday, surpassing Google parent Alphabet for the first time. Amazon shares finished up 2.69 percent at $1,586.51, for a market capitalization of $768 billion, underscoring Wall Street’s confi … | Continue reading
Indie games took home most of the prizes in tonight’s 14th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) ceremony. Titles like Tender Claws’ meta adventure Virtual Virtual Reality won alongside Timi Studio Group’s blockbuster multiplayer hit Arena of Valor, which Tencent publi … | Continue reading
GUEST: I just read Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley. It was both eye-opening and cringe-worthy. The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry – at startups and venture capital firms – and the interaction between men and women in the two. While Si … | Continue reading
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton said today people should get rid of their Facebook accounts. WhatsApp, a chat app with 1.5 billion monthly active users, was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for more than $16 billion. “It’s time,” Acton tweeted, followed by #deletefacebook. It … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: CarBlock, the world's first decentralized blockchain ecosystem that is specifically designed for future transportation applications just launched, with the intention of addressing the major pain points in the current connected... | Continue reading
Gaming consumers in the United States are dropping money on hardware and games even as February had a dearth of earthshattering new releases. The industry is so hot right now, that it can’t help but generate year-over-year growth with $995 million in total sales, according to in … | Continue reading
Salesforce announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire MuleSoft, a company that makes software to integrate disparate enterprise software systems. The mixed cash and stock deal is worth approximately $6.5 billion, according to a press release. The tech titan plans … | Continue reading
GUEST: Every morning I ask Alexa to read out the news, turn the lights on in the kitchen, and start making coffee. My son asks Alexa for the weather to see if he can wear shorts to school. And I’ve just gotten Alexa to open the garage door and back my car out of the garage. […] | Continue reading
CryptoKitties became a sensation after it debuted in November as a collectible game built on top of a blockchain and the Ethereum cryptocurrency. Now the Axiom Zen game studio is spinning it out as a separate company, and it has raised $12 million funding for this endeavor. The i … | Continue reading
Microsoft and developer Rare launched Sea of Thieves last night for Windows 10 and Xbox One. After an hour-and-a-half with the final retail build, I’m still not sure how much substance is in the mission structure, but I am having a good time goofing off with my crew and enjoying … | Continue reading
Less than a year ago, real estate professionals speculated that virtual and augmented reality would soon improve the process of buying and selling homes — now luxury realtor Sotheby’s is bringing AR into its international listings. Working in partnership with VR/AR developer Rooo … | Continue reading
GUEST: Historically a manufacturing hub, Wisconsin is known for producing iconic products such as tractors, motorcycles, and, of course, beer, but its economy has significantly changed in recent years. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city, manufacturing has ceased to dominate t … | Continue reading
Polish developer CD Projekt Red is starting a third team in that country to help it finish its upcoming sci-fi roleplaying adventure, Cyberpunk 2077. This new studio is CD Projekt Red Wrocław, which the company is starting the Polish city of the same name. CD Projekt Red is bring … | Continue reading
GUEST: In 2016, DeepMind’s AlphaGo famously defeated Lee Sedol, an international Go champion, becoming the first computer program to beat a human world champion. In 2018, LawGeex, an AI contract review platform, pulled the same stunt on human lawyers. The AI system achieved a 94 … | Continue reading
Microsoft launched a new project today that’s designed to help make flash storage more useful to large enterprises and cloud providers. Called Project Denali, it’s supposed to help deal with several issues with implementing solid state drives in large scale datacenters. Denali wo … | Continue reading
Roughly one year after releasing the original Vive Tracker to developers and less than six months after the consumer release, HTC has quietly started to offer an updated Tracker on its web site. The new version is officially known as Vive Tracker (2018), HTC confirmed today to To … | Continue reading
Resolution Games scored a hit with its Bait! virtual reality fishing game on the Samsung Gear VR in 2016 and the Google Daydream in 2017. Now that VR has gotten a little icy, Resolution Games is moving into the warmer waters of augmented reality. The Stockholm, Sweden-based compa … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART) and Winsight Grocery Business today announced the Retail Innovation Pitch Webcast (advancingretail.org/innovation) designed to bring relevant and transformative innovation... | Continue reading
Naran has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise money for its portable multi-sensor that detects a wide range of information about your environment. The MicroBot Sense smart sensor can measure temperature, humidity, noise level, relative air pressure, light intens … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Most Android phones will have to wait until 2019 to duplicate the 3D sensing feature behind Apple’s Face ID security, three major parts producers have told Reuters, handicapping Samsung and others on a technology that is set to be worth billions in revenue over the ne … | Continue reading
Roku has announced that its ad-supported movie- and TV channel will soon be available on third-party smart TVs in the U.S. The Los Gatos-based company, which is better known for its hardware that constitutes a range of video-streaming players, launched the Roku Channel last Septe … | Continue reading
Mythic announced today that it has closed a $40 million round of investment led by SoftBank Ventures to help bring a high-speed, low-power AI chip to market. The company will use this massive infusion of cash to help launch its specialized silicon next year, roughly seven years a … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Liquidity and volatility are two issues that dog almost every blockchain technology startup and cryptocurrency, which is why “stablecoins” are becoming popular. Backed by gold, oil, fiat, and other, more established currencies, assets, and utilities, stablecoins offer … | Continue reading
OPINION: Eight years ago I was among the hundreds of people gathered in a San Francisco auditorium for the Facebook developers conference. What I heard announced that day from CEO Mark Zuckerberg prompted me to write an effusive column with the following headline: “Sorry, Google, … | Continue reading
Instagram has come a long way since its $1 billion acquisition by Facebook nearly six years ago. No longer is it a funky photo-sharing app for friends: it now offers video, advertisers are courted en masse, and it’s also a major platform for brand and celebrities. But Instagram i … | Continue reading
Mobile banking startup N26 has raised $160 million in a series C round of funding from Allianz Group’s investment arm Allianz X and Chinese tech titan Tencent. Founded in 2013 as “Number26,” the Berlin-based startup rebranded as N26 two years ago when it obtained its own banking … | Continue reading
Don't want Facebook sharing your data with others? Keep your data from going through Facebook's API and take control of your privacy settings, either by disabling all platform apps, or limiting what they can share. | Continue reading
Sea of Thieves has just launched on Windows 10 and Xbox One, and it is already offline due to server overload. Developer Rare has confirmed the outage on its social-networking accounts. Ahoy Pirates! We are aware of the Greybeard issues that some of you may be experiencing. Our t … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Cloud storage company Dropbox’s initial public offering was oversubscribed, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday, indicating healthy demand for the first big tech IPO this year even as tech stocks opened the week on sour note. While investor appetite loo … | Continue reading
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, said at a developer event that the company reaches billions of players through its game engine customers, who generate billions of dollars in revenue from games based on Unity’s game development engine. But at an event tonight, Unity focused on qua … | Continue reading
Will Wright, creator of memorable games like SimCity and The Sims, is coming back to games. He announced in a video today that he is making a mobile game called Proxi, using Unity Technologies’ game engine. Wright made the announcement in a video shown at Unity’s keynote talk at … | Continue reading
Some big companies are getting together to create an indie game developers contest that will enable them to make prototype games based on some of Universal’s best film properties, from Battlestar Galactica to Voltron. It will be a rare chance for indies to envision games based on … | Continue reading
Fortnite isn’t just winning over celebrity fans, it’s also making money. As I reported earlier today, Fortnite is the No. 2 highest-grossing game on iOS, and app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower estimates it has made $1.5 million worldwide on Apple’s devices since turning on … | Continue reading
Despite breakout indie success stories like ConcernedApe’s Stardew Valley or Studio MDHR’s Cuphead, most studios face a crowded marketplace and a host of challenges to making profits on their games. Today at the Game Developers Conference, indie studio Infinite Monkeys Entertainm … | Continue reading
eBay is continuing its augmented reality (AR) embrace with the launch of a new feature for sellers to easily find the right box to fit their products. Available on some Android devices in the U.S. from today, eBay is tapping Google’s ARCore software development kit (SDK) to lever … | Continue reading
GUEST: Predictive policing sounds like something out of a new sci-fi movie written to highlight the dangers of our algorithmic, data-driven modern world, but it’s not. Nor is it a possible tool currently relegated to research and development, or a distant goal for the future. Ins … | Continue reading
As governments race to authorize 5G wireless networks across the globe, Canada and New Zealand each took major steps today towards testing 5G technologies within their borders. Yet nationwide 5G service appears to remain years away for both countries, pending key government decis … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: KFx Medical, LLC announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Wright Medical Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:WMGI) relating to KFx patents used in knotless double row rotator cuff repair. Under the agreement, Wright and... | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Nobody shakes off outrages over data privacy like Facebook. The company has built a culture and business model on pushing the envelope around data use since its founding. But that usually triggers a cycle of user anger that peaks with some weeping and gnashing of teeth, … | Continue reading
Epic is now enabling people to take Fortnite with them wherever they go, and players are rewarding the developer with massive quantities of cash. The last-player-standing shooter launched last week as part of an invite-only program, and it is already the No. 2 highest-grossing iP … | Continue reading