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This week we went hands-on with a few awesome gadgets, including the Fitbit Blaze and the Meta 2 AR headset, Slack introduced voice calling, and one of Google’s self-driving cars got into a minor accident. These are the stories to catch you up this week. Read More... →

Sony is doing something unheard of in the consumer electronic space: It’s going to show off prototypes. Can you imagine Apple or Samsung doing that? Not really, no. For several good reasons, electronic companies like to keep products under wraps until they’re completely finished and the company can unveil it with many dogs and ponies. Sony’s calling this program Future Lab… Read More... →

Watch out, it’s on fire. Sony today revealed a list of the PlayStation 4’s most downloaded games in February, and Firewatch — a first-person, story-driven experience — topped the list, beating mass-market blockbusters like Far Cry: Primal and Street Fighter V. This is a good sign for the smaller game, and it shows that an indie […]... →

That battery-powered alarm clock or flashlight in your house could very well contain a piece of an old hybrid car.... →

Google today announced a significant enhancement to the developer tools for its Google Cast software, which lets people stream media from their PCs and mobile devices to TVs and speakers. The Google Cast software-development kit (SDK) Developer Console now includes dedicated pages for analytics for apps that work with with Google Cast. The tool is […]... →

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a big focus on Cortana. The company also shared that all firmware updates for Lumia devices will now be automatically published for Windows Insiders. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building Windows 10, […]... →

В списке бизнес-сегментов "Яндекса" для отчётности в американскую Комиссию по ценным бумагам и биржам было 5 российских пунктов. 4 из них выделились в отдельные ООО, а пятый просто потерял руководителя.... →

«Теперь нам нужен новый человек»... →

As promised, Google today announced that it is making a number of changes to how it handles links it has delisted under Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten‘ regulations. Instead of simply delisting links from the various regional versions of its search engine, it will now use geolocation to remove these links from all searches that come from a given region. To be delisted… Read More... →

Live esports isn’t going anywhere. Twitch, the leading site for livestreaming gameplay video, announced today that it has extended its partnership with the ESL esports organization. Fans of Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and League of Legends can expect to keep seeing ESL’s events for those games broadcasting on Twitch throughout 2016. In 2015, the ESL […]... →

A new app from David Barnard, the developer behind the popular Launch Center Pro, promises to be the cure for boredom. Rando, as the app is called, offers a crazy twist on our carefully curated online personas – instead of allowing you to choose a photo or GIF to share with friends, Rando will just randomly pick one for you. You can also share random text quotes, then post them to… Read More... →

To put it briefly and bluntly: The iPhone is already vulnerable to hackers around the world. This is also true of Android and other smart device platforms. Read More... →

Корпорация «Яндекс» выделила свой сервис для выбора товаров «Яндекс.Маркет» в отдельное юрлицо, сообщает «Интерфакс» со ссылкой на «Вестника государственной регистрации». Руководителем новой компании стал глава проекта Павел Алешин. Ранее «Яндекс» выделил в отдельные компании ООО «Яндекс.Такси» и ООО «Яндекс.Вертикали», под управление которой перешли сервисы «Яндекс.Авто», «Яндекс.Недвижимость», «Яндекс.Работа» и др. В компании считают, что такая реорганизация поможет сервисам, чьи бизнес-модели значительно... →

EXCLUSIVE: You could call it an exodus now. Electronic Arts said in January that it would drop its booth on the show floor of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the game industry’s biggest trade show in the U.S. Then Activision Blizzard, the biggest U.S. game company, dropped out of the show floor earlier this week. And […]... →

VB WEBINAR: Missed our webinar on how leading lenders are using big data and predictive models to slash risk and boost revenue? You can still watch on demand! Access the free webinar right here. Alternative lenders are coming to the forefront of the market as governmental regulatory changes and the increasingly tech-savvy market has demanded innovation. But their […]... →

Tim Sweeney is of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games, and he stirred up a big debate about the future of Windows. In an op-ed piece in the Guardian and in an interview with GamesBeat today, Sweeney said that he worries that Microsoft is making […]... →

The software engineers behind Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram are constantly looking to improve the app’s performance. Performance improvements might sound like an exercise in perfection for perfection’s sake, but in fact they can lead to important things — like more usage from end users. And that’s exactly what happened recently: Engineers got to wondering about […]... →

ООО «Яндекс» выделило товарный агрегатор «Яндекс.Маркет» в отдельную дочернюю компанию. Об этом сообщает «Интерфакс» со ссылкой на «Вестник государственной регистрации».... →

На основе анализа более 170 тысяч проектов на Kickstarter... →

We’re happy to announce that Jeri Ellsworth, cofounder of augmented reality glasses maker CastAR, will be one of our speakers for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4 at the scenic Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, California. Ellsworth is the cofounder of CastAR, a company that is […]... →