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Munich-based human resources startup Personio has raised $40 million in venture capital in a round led by Index Ventures.

Amazon Web Services has announced AWS Backup, a service for its customers to back up all their data into a fully-managed, centralized silo.

Games offer significant social, cognitive, and economic benefits. It's up to colleges to up their game and prepare students for this industry.

Microsoft's Windows 10 build 18317 (19H1 branch) brings improvements to search, Cortana, Start, font, Settings, and the Windows Console.

With the books closed on 2018, its safe to say that startups in these states reached significant funding milestones last year.

After settling its lawsuit with Bethesda for alleged copyright infringement, Behaviour Interactive is closing down Westworld Mobile.

Phantasy Star IV is playable on Switch thanks to Sega Genesis Classics, and it's a great experience for retro JRPG lovers.

Researchers have developed an AI system that takes into account both audio and video data in classifying the emotional states of people.

Forza Horizon 4 previously featured two dances that are the subject of a lawsuit against Fortnite creator Epic Games. Now, Playground has pulled them.

Microsoft is joining India's burgeoning tech startup space. The company's corporate venture fund M12 has made its first investment in the country.

The company responsible for Agent 47's many expolits is open a studio in Malmö, Sweden. This new team will work on Hitman as well as new IOI projects.

Heal, a startup that uses doctors to make house calls, said Paul Jacobs, former CEO of Qualcomm, and ex-Florida Governor Jeb Bush have joined its board.

The long-awaited sequel to Microsoft's AR headset finally looks set to be revealed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But what will be inside?

Robomart is partnering with Stop & Shop grocery store chain to make deliveries with its driverless grocery store vehicles this spring.

India's Byju's, which is backed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is acquiring Palo Alto, California  startup Osmo.

GamesBeat Summit 2019 is closer than ever, and it’s time to introduce four new great speakers: Ted Price, Frank Gibeau, Kristen Dumont, and Michael Metzger.

In a world's first, a leading pacemaker manufacturer is enabling patients to see the status of their heart implants using popular smartphones and tablets.

Microsoft announced more new titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in January.

French video game giant Ubisoft announced that Tom Clancy's The Division 2's closed beta starts on February 7. 

Sense, a startup that employs AI and custom sensors to help homeowners cut down on energy consumption, has raised $20 million in Series B funding.

Sirin Labs has officially launched its much-hyped blockchain smartphone, Finney. The company also opened its first blockchain smartphone retail store.

Digital games grew 12 percent to $109.8 billion worldwide in 2018, driven by Epic Games' huge free-to-play battle royale game Fortnite.

Amazon's Alexa assistant can now read the news in the style of a newscaster, thanks to a novel machine learning training technique.

Project Alias is a crowdsourced privacy shield for smart speakers that prevents intelligent assistants from listening in on conversations inadvertently.

A new Pew Research survey on ad targeting comes as Facebook has been under increased scrutiny for its collection of user information.

Unity Technologies backed down on its previous stance in a dispute that erupted last week with SpatialOS platform maker Improbable and rival game engine maker Epic Games.

Perceptin's new visual perception hardware can detect obstacles up to 1,000 meters away, and was purpose-built for trains.

Check Point said that its researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the massively popular online game Fortnite. Epic Games has patched the flaw, which exposed user login credentials.

WhatsApp now has more monthly active users on Android and iPhone platforms than Facebook app does, according to App Annie.