Epic Games today announced that it’s going to offer up the underlying software infrastructure and tools used to run its massive, cross-platform hit Fortnite to other game developers for free.

Yesterday, Microsoft’s “B Week” Patch Tuesday, we saw a fairly small set of patches — “small” being a relative designation.

Uber, which is gearing up to go public early next year, is really doubling down on this whole multi-modal transportation provider effort.

Fintech startup YayPay just raised another $8. 4 million for its software-as-a-service solution focused on collecting money from outstanding invoices.

Google is launching a new feature for Android phones today through its Play Store app marketplace that will let anyone donate to a number of US nonprofits, with 100 percent of the donation going to the chosen organization.

Most of us will have a couple of days off at the start of the year before getting back to work after the holidays, and Netflix hopes to keep us occupied with a slew of show and movie additions.

On a party-line vote, the FCC today approved a controversial measure that gives mobile phone carriers more power over text messages.

Accenture announced today that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Adaptly.

Glass plate converts blue light to red, guides it to edge of glass.

LG has announced new 17-inch and 14-inch laptops as the latest additions to its lightweight Gram lineup.

Tigera, a startup that offers security and compliance solutions for Kubernetes container deployments, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners.

Cosworth Engineering is responsible for the V12, and it should be very special.

Non-tracking search engine, DuckDuckGo, is now a little easier to find online after the company acquired the premium generic domain name  duck.

Apple may launch a new version of Texture, a magazine subscription app it bought in March, in the spring.

Amazon aims to sink itself deeper into enterprises with new tools.

At E3, amid the booming explosions of big-budget game trailers and sterile setups for pricy gaming PCs, I stumbled upon a cute racing game called Desert Child.

It's no secret that the season of goodwill to all is expensive, especially for those with tech-savvy loved ones lusting after the latest kit that comes with eye-watering price tags.

Online services SDK will roll out slowly through 2019.

Today Nvidia is releasing version 7. 2 of its software for the Shield Android TV box, which continues to receive strong support more than three years on from its initial release.

Future Family is a startup (and a Disrupt Startup Battlefield alum!) that helps families more easily afford fertility services like IVF and egg freezing.

Solidifying its powerful monopoly on duck-related online content, the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is now the proud owner of duck.

Android set-top box Shield TV has already added Alexa and a fully-featured version of cloud game streaming service GeForce Now, but it's making room for another significant update in the lead up to Christmas.

Microsoft is working to bring a consumer version of its Microsoft 365 bundle to market, which could include Windows 10, Office 365, Skype, Cortana, Outlook Mobile and/or other services.

Google’s annual Year in Search is more than a digital record of the events, stories and phenomena that captured our attention over 12 months.

Streaming shows stand a much better chance of winning SAG Awards in 2019 than they did this year -- in fact, they're guaranteed at least one.

Nvidia is a company that has reached the highest highs and the lowest lows, all in the span of a couple of weeks.

Russian state TV apparently became confused yesterday while airing footage of a technology forum aimed at kids.

Halfway between Norway and the North Pole is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which stores second copies of seeds for the world's seed banks as insurance against the potential destruction of crops.

Tom Merritt discusses the technologies that are making food smarter and healthier.

Farmers and tech startups are using IoT, AI, robots, and precision agriculture to prevent a food shortage crisis.

It's still early days for precision agriculture, but two UK-based projects are proving the feasibility and value of the concept.

The next step in feeding the world's rapidly growing population involves self-driving tractors, precision farming, and Internet of Things sensors to quantify agriculture in vast new ways.

Go inside the race to feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit planet earth in 2050.

It’s time to toss your London Spitfire jersey in the wash because the Overwatch League just announced its 2019 schedule.

Learn definitions of commonly used terms in smart farming. The terms include Agriculture 4.

The future of food series takes an in-depth look at the role of technology in food production and consumption.

Soylent, People Chow, and Huel have found fans in the tech industry who don't want to waste working time eating meals.

John Carmack isn't the only one ending a legal fight with ZeniMax.

Americans are regularly checking a second screen while watching TV, according to a new report from Nielsen which examined the media consumption habits of U.

On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee, after months of escalating pressure.

The PlayStation 4 remains a top-flight gaming platform as it wraps up its fifth year and enters a 2019 sure to be full of PS5 rumors, interesting exclusive games, and the possible launch of the most-requested feature in PlayStation Network history.

Guru, the enterprise-focused information sharing platform, has today announced the close of a $25 million Series B funding led by Thrive Capital, with participation from existing investors Emergence Capital, FirstMark Capital, Slack Fund, and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital.

The rate of progress in the field of artificial intelligence is one of the most hotly contested aspects of the ongoing boom in teaching computers and robots how to see the world, make sense of it, and eventually perform complex tasks both in the physical realm and the virtual one.

Truly, 2018 has been a year filled with news that made us look blankly ahead and utter ‘wat’ into the void, frozen in confusion, every day.

Wireless earbuds help you tune into your music on the move without the risk of getting tangled in cords, and today, one of our favorite pairs is on sale for the lowest price we’ve ever seen.

Wireless earbuds help you tune into your music on the move without the risk of getting tangled in cords, and today, one of our favorite pairs is on sale for the lowest price we’ve ever seen.

Workers in a recently opened Staten Island Amazon warehouse have announced their intention to unionize.

The Amazon Fire TV Recast is a wacky gadget. It’s not wacky in that it looks weird.

Walker & Company Brands, a startup making health and beauty products for people of color, has been acquired by consumer giant Procter & Gamble.

After a tough year where it faced competition across all fronts from AMD, Intel hopes that the switch over to 10-nanometer based chips and technologies such as 3D-stacking of logic chips will help it regain some of the ground it lost.

In 100 million years, human civilization will have bit the dust. Perhaps a nuclear war scorched the planet, or a last-ditch bid to solve climate change backfired horribly.

Russian accessory maker Caviar is known for strapping impractical gold-plated objects onto the backs of iPhones, like a gold-trimmed solar charging panel.

While the likes of Uber, Airbus and Porsche tinker away on their respective passenger and transportation drones, a lesser-known startup is taking an altogether different approach.

Can a platform conceived to support running ephemeral applications become the operating system of choice for running data workloads in the multi-cloud and hybrid cloud era? Looks like it, but we're not just there yet.

Algoriddim has announced the next generation of its DJ software for iOS called Djay.

Last year, I was trying to solve a mystery. Facebook’s “People You May Know” tool was outing sex workers’ real identities to their clients, and vice versa, and I was trying to figure out how.

"Please be careful, my hand is there. ".

Remember two days ago when Samsung introduced the Galaxy A8s in China and trotted out the CEOs of the fake Supreme brand to announce a collaboration for future products? After much backlash from fans who love paying a premium for branded tchotchkes, Samsung wants you to know that it’s possibly, maybe, considering not….

Today’s a great day to level-up your PC loadout with one of the most popular gaming mice out there.

If you’ve been browsing the App Store for long enough, chances are you’ve seen djay at some point.

With Microsoft's decision to switch to Chromium for its Edge browser, Mozilla's Firefox remains the only major browser developer that still maintains its own alternative engine.

Algoriddim's djay app has been an Apple favorite for some time, regularly appearing in the company's keynotes to show off incremental updates over the years.

In my never-ending quest to wrap everything in brown leather, I’m pleased with this AirPod case from Nomad.

Facebook today announced a redesign of its “Life Events” feature, which allows people to share significant milestones in their life, like an engagement, graduation, a new job, a move to a new city, and more.

In the very first selfie taken by InSight, the NASA probe looks ready and rarin’ to go.

Every company is claiming their latest web browser is the fastest one yet.

The symbolism surrounding Intel’s Architecture Day briefing—an event to signal a new strategy and own up to past mistakes—couldn’t be richer.

Technology challenges for cutting-edge cross-functional researchA clear pioneer in the field of computer science and engineering education, the SCSE was the first school in Singapore to offer a Computer Engineering programme.

Employees working in Amazon’s new Staten Island fulfillment center have announced their intention to unionize, reports Bloomberg.

Want a trustworthy, full-featured Kubernetes package that's not tied to a specific vendor? Then you should talk to Bitnami.

China’s online youth entertainment platform Bilibili said it has agreed to buy major assets from the comics arm of gaming giant NetEase, which helped introduce Marvel’s first batch of Chinese superheroes in May.

LG will show off all new Gram laptops at CES in January.

Long criticized for reusing old cores in its recent CPUs, Intel on Wednesday showed off a new 10nm Sunny Cove core that will bring faster single-threaded and multi-threaded performance along with major speed bumps from new instructions.

The PlayStation Classic is a mistake. It's a quick attempt by Sony to cash in on the micro-console trend, something Nintendo kicked off with the NES and SNES Classic.

The upgrade will bring a lot more games into the "playable framerate" category.

Hello, Las Vegas! We are all heading to LV for CES next month and instead of spending all our cash on a booth we’ll be wandering the halls and want to meet you as far away from the Convention Center as possible without ending up in the Grand Canyon.

How many of us are guilty of throwing compostable chopsticks in the garbage? Or food-soiled aluminum containers in the recycling? A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia has figured out just the way to help us get it right: a video game.

AtScale, the startup that helps companies move massive amounts of data into business intelligence and analytics tools, announced a $50 million Series D round today.

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is thinking about multiple scenarios when it comes to tariffs and iPhone production.

Finally, a move away from just bundling more cores together.

Technology allows tight integration of high performance and low power processes.

After raising $55 million in October at a $500 million valuation, business software marketplace G2 Crowd is making its first-ever acquisition to bring more features to its platform.

How do you choose which emoji skin tone to use? This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and I discuss the five emoji skin tones (not counting the default gold option) and how people decide which color best represents them.

At an Architecture Day event hosted this week, Intel articulated an unusually lucid strategy for its development of future processors, most of which will revolve around fragmenting the various elements of a modern CPU into individual, stackable “chiplets.

Stephen Lang teases where his Avatar villain is at going into the sequel.

Intel’s had a rough year, with major departures, security disasters, dwindling sales compared to its competitor, and the general appearance of a company trailing the competition technologically speaking.

No, you didn't read that wrong. Intel's 11th generation integrated graphics will pack in more than a teraflop worth of computing power, the company announced today.

As it's getting more difficult to cram transistors next to each other in chips, and we near the end of Moore's Law, the only choice is to go vertical.

Big milestones deserve big announcements, which is why Facebook is giving its Life Events feature a revamp.

Smash Bros. players are often as particular about the controllers they use as they are which characters they pick to go into battle.

I’m heading back to Europe to hang out in Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland.

Virgin Galactic is leveling up the SpaceShipTwo's test flights and is planning to burn its rocket motor for durations far longer than it has before.

This is the Echo I’ve been waiting for. Throughout my house, I have Amazon Echo Dots connected to stereo systems.

The hype surrounding AI and machine learning is cacophonous - and small businesses hoping to take advantage of emerging technology might be fearful the cost will be even greater than the hysteria.

Tuesday's Windows 10 cumulative update fixes bug that annoyed owners of the flagship Surface Book 2.

Twitter chief Jack Dorsey came under fire earlier this week when he posted a series of tone deaf tweets celebrating his recent birthday retreat in Myanmar, a country ravaged by political violence and whose government is accused of widespread genocide.

According to Ookla's latest fixed broadband report, the fastest major US city is Kansas City on 159/127Mbps and the fastest state is New Jersey on 121/56Mbps.

Juniper Square, which operates an enterprise software platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raised the funds from Ribbit Capital.

Dell made a lot of hardware changes to the 2018 XPS—do they play nice with Ubuntu 18.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee today, and lawmakers peppered him with everything from allegations of bias against conservatives to questions about location data.

Vivo's dual-screen phone enables a notch-free design.

Audi has a new CEO. Bram Schot was just named the car company’s chief executive after serving in that role on an interim basis since June.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Google's search algorithms are unbiased.

Did you see the tweets supposedly “debunking” the huge fires that were burning during the protests in Paris? In reality, the “debunkers” are bullshit.

Earlier this year, the Kadokawa Cinema Shinjuku revamped itself as an anime specialty movie theater.

Samsung caused controversy at the Chinese launch event of the Galaxy A8 earlier this week, when it announced it would be partnering with fashion brand Supreme for some kind of tech x streetwear collaboration (exactly what wasn't specified).

Police in Jersey City have been placing fake Amazon packages outside people’s homes to catch thieves, reports the Associated Press.

New showrunner Chris Chibnall made some bold choices to set his Doctor apart.

If 2017 was a year in which Apple let some products stagnate while over-aggressively trying to update others, 2018 was the exact opposite.

Though the personal computer was born from garage projects, the supercomputer had been declining to the back of the garage.

Microsoft baffles Windows 10 users by apparently collecting data about recently opened websites and apps when users have opted against sharing that information.

Luckin, a startup that vows to topple Starbucks’ dominance in China, announced on Wednesday that it’s lifted its valuation to $2.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. This morning, we're stepping back to the '80s with some special-edition Pumas, while Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot shows off the future of commuting.

The Razer Phone 2 is a gaming powerhouse. Under the hood it’s running the latest hardware, features a giant battery, and offers a viewing/listening experience that is unmatched—on top of a near-stock version of Android.

Prosecutors are gunning for a lengthy prison sentence. Mark Karpeles has denied stealing investor funds.

Gaming isn’t restricted to big, bulky PCs anymore. The rise of USB-C and Thunderbolt 3’s blisteringly fast data transfer speeds can now transform ultraportable laptops and diminutive desktop systems into full-blown gaming rigs when they’re connected to an external graphics card dock (eGPU).

Vinyl records are making a major comeback, but digital recordings are better suited to mobile pursuits.

Let us pity them—the sad, devoted lovers of the iPad mini. In the wake of every Apple iPad event since 2015, you can find them frowning in the crowds or, later, rushing to Reddit to weep in collective misery at the absence of their beloved device’s Fifth Coming.

Your decision isn't between two products, it's between two entire ecosystems.

Flashback to the days when the mainframe is king, punch cards are the standard medium for programs, and timesharing terminals are a huge boon for programmer productivity, according to a pilot fish who was there.

There have been some complaints recently about how the Apple App Store handles privacy.

Think fast: How many times a day do you pick up your phone to look at something? Unless you live in the tundra or have far more self-control than most, the answer probably falls somewhere between "quite a few" and "more than any sane person could count.

EmblemHealth has spent the past several years modernizing its technology, moving off legacy systems and onto commercial platforms to drive the digital transformation that will keep the organization competitive.

Rhyperior, Rhyhorn’s final form, clocks in at 623. 5 pounds and 7 feet ten inches tall.

You don't need to buy a new iPhone to be able to run multiple SIM cards.

Numerous buildings on Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California were evacuated Tuesday evening after local police were forwarded a tip about a bomb threat.

Targets around the world are in the sights of a cyber espionage operation, which could have links to North Korea.

When Michael Gabriel was CIO of HBO, he went through a divorce. In reflecting on the end of his marriage, he thought, “How could I meet someone, marry her, have a child, and then discover that we were actually very disconnected from one another?”As he pondered the quandary of why people often ignore warning signs and stay together too long, he took notes to understand the dilemma and to offer some guidance to his young daughter for when she got older.

As companies compete for talent, a startup that has built a platform to help ensure that the talent — once it’s working for you — doesn’t get bogged down by IT frustration, has raised a significant round of funding.

The tech industry is becoming more vocal about its worries about a cyberwarfare arms race.

Tesla wants Martin Tripp to pay up big time -- it's seeking a whopping $167 million from the former employee, which company chief Elon Musk once called a saboteur.

Truly wireless earbuds let you ditch all cables in our post-headphone jack world, but like with anything else, their quality varies.

As promised, Office 365 is ready to wring more out of macOS Mojave.

As is the annual tradition, Google has released its list of top trending searches for the year.

India has 22 official languages, which often presents a challenge for businesses that want to scale across the entire country.

500 million customers were impacted. Investigators believe that state-sponsored Chinese hackers are to blame.

500 million customers were impacted. Investigators believe that state-sponsored Chinese hackers are to blame.

LG will showcase two new entries to its ultralight Gram lineup at CES 2019 -- one of them is a 17-inch laptop for those who prefer large screens, while the other is a 2-in-1 convertible.

The new patent could bring augmented reality applications to Tesla factories.

There is no shortage of floor-standing speakers in the $2k/pair price range, yet Paradigm has decided to jump back in this market segment with a brand new design.

Verizon disclosed on Tuesday that Oath, the subsidiary company which it created to manage acquisitions like its $4.

Tencent Music, China’s largest streaming company, has raised $1.

No lock-in contracts, 24/7 IT support, more small business specialists, unlimited data broadband plans, and Telstra Business Technology Centres have been announced under the telco's new small business offerings.

In case you missed the few opportunities around Black Friday to find the Apple HomePod for $249 — $100 off of its usual price — here’s another one.

It’s hard to imagine how these hearings will result in anything more substantial than a few less-than-viral sound bytes.

AWS CISO told ZDNet that security is job zero for the cloud behemoth.

South Korean telecommunications giant KT will collaborate with its Kenyan counterpart Safaricom and health authorities to build an epidemic prevention platform in Kenya.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai finally swung by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for a real clown show of a hearing which—including a denial that the company is planning to launch a censored Chinese search engine “right now”—contained little useful information.

"Right now, if you Google the word 'idiot' under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up.

NSA official Rob Joyce told guests at a Wall Street Journal security conference that hacking-related Chinese activity had been climbing in recent months.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will offer a 10 percent refund for November's bill for Korean customers who were affected by last month's network failure.

Indonesia-based e-commerce firm Tokopedia is the latest startup to enter the Vision Fund after it raised $1.

A building in Facebook’s Menlo Park campus was evacuated after a bomb threat early Tuesday evening.

Telstra provides emergency alert text messages to Queensland residents as part of a commercial contract with the state government, with CEO Andy Penn saying it will not do so for free.

A building on Facebook’s Menlo Park campus, which houses both Instagram and Facebook employees, has been evacuated Tuesday night after a reported bomb threat.

Tonight the police in Menlo Park, CA are on the scene near the 200 block of Jefferson Ave where the headquarters of Facebook and Instagram are located.

Scott Derrickson has reportedly signed on to return as director.

The Huawei executive detained in Canada for extradition to the U.

Dr. Muhannad Hafi acted inappropriately with 2 female patients, state board finds.

The ACCC is considering whether to price Telstra's regulated copper and ADSL services in reference to pre- and post-NBN completion periods.

Firefox 64 also comes with support for multi-tab selections and final distrust of all Symantec SSL certificates.

Dell Inc beats out close competitor HPE by 100,000 units in the third quarter of 2018, IDC reports.

Two years ago, a couple of VCs from Shea Ventures, a 50-year-old, L.

Ultraman is one of Japan’s most iconic superheroes. And while each generation of size-changing defenders of the Earth has been enchanting Japanese audiences for over half a century, Ultraman’s impact around the wider world has been in fits and starts.

Last week, in the wake of Netflix’s recent decision to cancel both Daredevil and Iron Fist (not to mention Luke Cage) just when both series seemed to be hitting their respective strides, a big fuss was made over a report that Daredevil was also the fourth-most popular series on the platform when it began streaming,….

Peter Dutton has indicated that the federal government will not accept all of the Labor opposition's proposed changes to its new encryption laws.

Tensions remain high over the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for alleged Iran sanction violations, but Canada just offered a tiny olive branch.

Here’s the question you came here to have answered: Is the PG-13 re-release of Deadpool 2, retitled Once Upon a Deadpool, worth seeing in the theater? The answer is “Yes!” But also “No.

Microsoft's Cortana seemingly is close to being able to incorporate recognition of multiple different voices.

In addition, CBP agents also didn't carry out any software-assisted searches for more than seven months because a manager forgot to renew a license agreement.

A Canadian court has granted bail to Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou after her arrest in Vancouver on behalf of US authorities.

Because video game versions of card games are now a license to print money, 1939 games have decided to take the Second World War and turn it into Gwent.

Skullcandy announced the launch of its first truly wireless earbuds today, called the Skullcandy Push.

The suit, filed in June, alleges that the former Tesla technician transferred gigabytes of trade secrets to outsiders.

The decision concludes a three-days-long court hearing in which the judge and the public prosecutor debated whether Wanzhou would breach her bail conditions.

Meng Wanzhou, one of Huawei’s top executives and the eldest daughter of the company’s founder/CEO, will be released on bail and kept under tight monitoring over bank fraud allegations, a Canadian court ruled today.

Meng Wanzhou, one of Huawei’s top executives and the eldest daughter of the company’s founder/CEO, will be released on bail and kept under tight monitoring over bank fraud allegations, a Canadian court ruled today.

Wix is taking a big step beyond website building today with the launch of a suite of products called Ascend.

Fan-favorite Call of Duty maps are now showing up in Fortnite, via the new creative mode introduced last week.

Instead of a standard based on wealth, or even knowledge -- one based on users’ contributions of time and attention.

Ascend is designed to guide SMBs through the next steps of building a business after they've created a website.

The six-month bidding war is over, with the city of churches claiming the title of home to Australia's space efforts.

Safety is a major concern when it comes to autonomous vehicles, for both the people they're transporting as well as those who are nearby.

Hertz announced Tuesday that it is going to lean on facial recognition and fingerprint verification technology to speed up the rental process at airports.

"I want The Riveter to be the place people think of when they think of women and work," says its CEO Amy Nelson.

Internet users are already being tracked to death, with ads that follow us around, search histories that are collected and stored, emails that report back to senders when they’ve been read, websites that know where you scrolled and what you clicked, and much more.

IDG For this episode of the Macworld Podcast, we'll be discussing Epic Games' removal of the Infinity Blade series from the App Store and what it says about app maintenance and game preservation.

Almost one year after a California judge dismissed Apartment Investment & Management Company’s lawsuit against Airbnb, both companies have agreed to settle all of their disputes.

Farmers can use drones to monitor their fields, but they have their limits when they can rarely fly for more than 20 to 30 minutes at a time.

Martin Tripp, a former technician at Tesla’s Gigafactory turned whistleblower, is embroiled in a nasty lawsuit with the EV manufacturer and recently released court documents show that Tesla is not taking Tripp’s alleged “sabotage” lightly.

When Dell voted to buy back the VMware tracking stock and go public again this morning, you had to be wondering what exactly the strategy was behind these moves.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has floated the idea for an all-electric pickup truck numerous times in the two years.

Google is shutting down its Fusion Tables cloud service, a Google Drive option that offered an easy way to create online visualizations, especially maps.

From Pizzagate to QAnon, YouTube has a serious problem with conspiracy theories.

Net neutrality proponents now have less than two weeks to convince 38 House lawmakers to support an effort to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality.

And just like that, the Infinity Blade games are gone. Yesterday Infinity Blade and Fortnite maker Epic Games stripped them from the iOS App Store, claiming that “it has become increasingly difficult for our team to support the Infinity Blade series at a level that meets our standards.

The GameCube controller for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate might be sold out all over the place, but you don't need it to dominate the competition with your favorite fighter.

There's lots of research going into tiny drones, but one of the many hard parts is keeping them in the air for any real amount of time.

Newly released proposal documents reveal the extent to which New York was willing to bend over backwards to win the bid for an Amazon branch office, as well as the sites the retail giant passed on in lieu of a hefty chunk of Long Island City.

Sometimes a single phone number isn’t enough — if you need to go abroad, for example, or need separate business and personal numbers, two is definitely better than one.

Fallout 76, Bethesda’s troubled online survival shooter, received an update today that included a number of bug fixes and the addition of push-to-talk on PC.

Filmmaker Legend of Micah has teamed up with a range of professional stunt performers, who have worked on stuff like Avengers: Endgame, Avengers Infinity War and The Walking Dead, to pay tribute to Super Smash Bros.

The PlayStation Classic was a great idea that was disappointingly executed.

The investment bank is said to be leading Uber's IPO, expected in the first quarter of 2019.

He was somewhere between the age of 17 and 25 when he died, apparently of natural causes.

The question of how self-driving cars will interact and communicate with humans is one that has come up before, but the answer is still up in the air.

Here's a look at the annual run rates, hybrid cloud strategies, and approaches to artificial intelligence and machine learning among the public cloud providers.

How would you keep a shopping mall lively in an era when more and more people are buying their holiday gifts online? The Mall of America has a one-word answer: holograms.

After six weeks, the administrators are selling off the assets.

GitLab Serverless leverages Google's Knative, the Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads.

Google may have evaded the first few rounds of grill-a-tech-exec, but its CEO Sundar Pichai wound up in the hotseat on the Hill after all.

Ah, holiday board gaming. A roaring fire.. A glass of nog.. And a raging debate over whether the blue guy was next to the red square or vice versa.

Mozilla released Firefox 64 for Windows, macOS and Linux with an embedded recommendation system that spotlights features and suggests specific add-ons based on how users work the browser and where they steer it on the web.

On March 13, 2018, an Uber manager reportedly sent an email to company executives, alerting them to the safety concerns of the self-driving car software, the high rate of self-driving car accidents, and the “dangerous behavior” of the backup drivers, according to a new report from the Information.

We were promised jetpacks, but let's be honest, they're just plain unsafe.

Let's be honest. We're a generation obsessed with taking and sharing photos.

Work has already been done on the feature in Chromium.

The first major content update for World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion is upon us.

Thought VR was too expensive and too bulky? Well, VRgineers is here with a giant $5,800 headset to prove that you lack perspective.

Microsoft also fixes 38 other security bugs, 9 of which are rated "Critical.

Two years after its launch, Microsoft Teams is outpacing team chat rival Slack – largely thanks to Teams’ free availability as part of Office 365 subscriptions.

Apparently, a lot of people realize at the last minute that they don’t have either beer, wine, or liquor in their home when they need it.

If the internet has benefitted humanity in any way, it’s by spotlighting people’s amazing-yet-questionably-useful talents.

It’s been over three months since fresh lava oozed out of Kilauea volcano, and the eruption that turned southeastern Hawaii into a fiery hellscape has receded from the headlines.

Tesla is now seeking $167 million in a lawsuit against Martin Tripp, the former Tesla employee who CEO Elon Musk has referred to as a saboteur, CNBC first reported.

The newest version of Firefox for desktop and Android, version 64, is out today and it comes with a few nifty features for more intensive tab and extension use.

In the world of payment cards and ecommerce, artificial intelligence and biometrics are now among the industry’s most potent weapons for fighting fraud.

In any congressional hearing about technology, at least a few lawmakers will use Silicon Valley executives as their own personal tech support staff.

Overwatch’s annual Winter Wonderland event is back, which means snowball fights, festive cheer, and yetis or whatever, but mostly skins.

Adidas is dropping its all new Ultraboost 19 running shoes later this week, but you won't have to wait in line to get a look at them.

Ingenuity is a child’s greatest asset and most dangerous weapon.

Online food delivery app Deliveroo has opened its first brick-and-mortar location in Hong Kong, as reported by CNBC.

Questioning Google CEO Sundar Pichai for the first time, House lawmakers could have hammered on any number of controversies.

Microsoft lets you know right up front its aim for the Sulpt Ergonomic Keyboard wireless keyboard-and-mouse combo.

The proof of concept was carried out using R3's Corda Connect open source platform and aimed at simplifying the process underpinning syndicated loans.

The universe began with a bang—and things immediately got weird.

Instagram is testing a new type of account for high-profile users (such as celebrities, artists and influencers) that should give them more control over how they use the platform.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds might not be the top dog in the battle royale area anymore, but it’s continued to grow and expand, most recently with the snow-filled map of Vikendi.

In letter to customers, company declares no evidence supporting Bloomberg report.

Today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing was a clownshow—accurately predicted by Minority Leader Nadler as focusing mainly on the outgoing Republican majority’s apoplectic rage towards imaginary conservative bias on Alphabet’s platforms, and largely a rehash of the browbeating doled out to Twitter and Facebook….

Members of the House Judiciary committee have today closely questioned Google’s CEO about the company’s intentions in China, following reports this summer it’s planning a controversial return to the market despite local censorship of Internet services.

Amazon is selling the latest 128GB MacBook Air for just $1,059, which amounts to $140 (or 12 percent off) the regular retail price of $1,199.

Bill to restore net neutrality has 180 votes but needs 218 this month.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted today that YouTube needs to do better in dealing with conspiracy content on its site that can lead to real world violence.

At the heart of the lightweight augmented reality glasses that you’ve been promised is the a display engine that a handful of tech companies are racing to improve.

A vital part of the Kubernetes stack, etcd, is moving from Red Hat to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Welcome back to Complete In Box, our video series that looks back at classic games through the lens of their boxes, manuals, and other cool stuff that came packaged with them.

Microbes are everywhere, even between layers of paint on classic works of art.

No one has any trouble tracking their steps today. But how can you make sure people know you're doing it? Ostentatiously checking your phone or watch every five minutes is a pain.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa just finished in Lagos, Nigeria, where 15 companies took the stage for the chance of winning the $25,000 equity-free grand prize, a trip for two to TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 and the coveted title of “Africa’s Favorite Startup.