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These trends, driven by COVID, will have a long-lasting impact on our future.

As cashierless technology becomes normal, it could be used problematically for purposes beyond payment, particularly shoplifting detection.

GUEST: PlayStation has continued its domination of gaming industry TV advertising into the new year, racking up over 425.7 million ad impressions from mid-December to mid-January — 44% of the industry’s total. Overall, 16 brands aired 51 spots more than…

Microsoft is backtracking. Xbox Live Gold will not see its price raised. Further, free-to-play games will no longer require Gold.

Facebook, New York University, and Stanford researchers propose Porcupine, a program that encrypts code with high efficiency.

Vicarious Visions will now be a support studio dedicated to helping existing Blizzard project. This sucks.

The Biden administration has to address multiple crises, and artificial intelligence is part of the agenda in several major ways.

A leading enterprise platform for 3D room design and furniture commerce will use an investment to expand into new categories and regions.

Xbox Live Gold is getting a price hike that only makes sense if Microsft wants subscribers to shift to Xbox Game Pass instead.

Pinterest senior VP Jeremy King talked with VentureBeat about how the company's data strategy fuels changes.

A new research paper suggests AI practitioners adopt anthropology terms to assess large machine learning models that harm people.

Microsoft and SAP are expanding their partnership in a move that will see Microsoft Teams integrated into SAP's suite of products. 

Reflect is an automated, no-code testing platform that allows businesses to test web apps without browser extensions.

Ernest Cline's Ready Player Two has a new vision for the metaverse and the latest example of science fiction and reality intertwining.

Learn how taking your mobile game to new platforms can help you create community, improve discoverability, scale, and more.

Self-driving car startup Cruise has just gotten a $2 billion infusion from Microsoft, which actually stands to gain more from the deal.

Path of Exile: Echoes of Atlas expansion is its most downloaded expansion in the game's seven-year run, Grinding Gear Games said today.

Resident Evil: Village is heading to PC and consoles on May 7. Publisher Capcom also revealed for the first time that it will release the survival-horror adventure for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in addition to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. This game picks up the…

Apple's first mixed reality headset appears to be moving closer to release, notably priced for enterprise rather than consumer adoption.

It's time for a Hitman 3 speedrun. The Dubai stage already has some wild optimizaiton with completion times under 20 seconds.

Scott and Isaac Lien had trouble communicating long-distance with an elderly family member. So they invented the GrandPad.

Soci, a platform that helps brick-and-mortar businesses deploy localized marketing campaigns, has raised $80 million. 

OpenDrives, which provides network-attached storage solutions for enterprise clients, has raised a series B round of funding.

Eric Morales says Amazon Web Services has 90% of game publishers as its customers. That gives the company insight into 2021.