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Uber's self-driving cars flee to Arizona after California shutdown

Mail.ru

Russia’s MegaFon to acquire majority stake in Mail.Ru for $640 million

Adrien Henni, East-West Digital News December 23, 2016 3:06 AM

Trent Reznor, left, and Atticus Ross on Apple Music in December 2016.

Trent Reznor talks about the iPod, vinyl records, and his role at Apple Music

Jordan Novet December 22, 2016 10:44 PM

Donald Trump.

Trump’s vow to cut business regulation may help ‘regtech’ startups

Reuters December 22, 2016 9:54 PM

A computer keyboard, typical input medium by hackers.

Why we should expect more ransomware attacks in 2017

Robert Hackett, Fortune December 22, 2016 6:35 PM

BotBeat Weekly Newsletter for posts

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

Blaise Zerega December 22, 2016 6:12 PM

PokeScout can also see which team is winning in major cities around the United States.

PokéScout has mapped every Pokémon Go gym in the world

Jeff Grubb December 22, 2016 4:20 PM

How to make bots more personal in business.

Guest

Chat is the new web browser

Ted Livingston, Kik December 22, 2016 4:10 PM

Twitter admits ‘technical error’ in product update impacted video ad campaign reporting

Ken Yeung December 22, 2016 3:28 PM

Doom sure was fun.

10 great and cheap Steam Winter Sale games

Mike Minotti December 22, 2016 3:20 PM

A scene from Amsterdam's VR Days 2015 event. VR Days co-founder Daniel Doornink launched Europe's VRBASE hub initiative.

Guest

VR and AR dev spaces are starting to pop up everywhere

Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh December 22, 2016 3:10 PM

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Guest

How AI will disrupt the classroom

Alston Ghafourifar, Entefy December 22, 2016 2:10 PM

Passengers game

Passengers movie gets its official mobile mystery game

Dean Takahashi December 22, 2016 1:00 PM

Uber ships its self-driving cars to Arizona after being blocked by California's Department of Motor Vehicles.

Uber’s self-driving cars flee to Arizona after California shutdown

Ken Yeung December 22, 2016 12:28 PM

The LG G Watch at Google's 2014 I/O developer conference.

Google confirms two Android Wear 2.0 watches are coming in Q1 2017

Jordan Novet December 22, 2016 12:10 PM

Machine learning and NLU will help chatbots communicate like humans.

Guest

Chatbots are only as good as the platform they live on

Cameron Weeks, Sharpen December 22, 2016 12:10 PM

Pokémon are on your wrist now.

Pokémon Go launches on Apple Watch — and now I want an Apple Watch

Jeff Grubb December 22, 2016 11:00 AM

Steam sale is rough on the servers.

Steam Store is down as the winter sale goes live

Jeff Grubb December 22, 2016 10:45 AM

Air drones carrying cardboard box in sunset sky. Concept image of futuristic delivery drone.

Feature

How robots moved from science fiction into the real world in 2016

Paul Sawers December 22, 2016 10:25 AM

A pair of DavidsTea products inside an Eva gift box.

Eva bot wants to send gifts to your business clients

Khari Johnson December 22, 2016 10:20 AM

RollerCoaster Tycoon is back.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic combines the series’ first landmark games for iOS and Android

Jeff Grubb December 22, 2016 10:05 AM

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VB Live

Masters of Mobile Data IV: How leveraging real-time data has become table stakes (VB Live)

VB Staff December 22, 2016 9:41 AM

Nokia Security Center in Berlin.

Nokia expands litigation against Apple to cover 40 patents across 11 countries

Paul Sawers December 22, 2016 9:04 AM

Kixeye's War Commander Rogue Assault is a real-time strategy game on mobile.

After nearly 3 years of struggle, Kixeye launches its spectacular War Commander: Rogue Assault

Dean Takahashi December 22, 2016 9:01 AM

Jaunt lets you watch movies in VR on the PlayStation VR.

Jaunt lets you watch VR movies on the PlayStation VR

Dean Takahashi December 22, 2016 9:00 AM

QuizUp.

Glu acquires QuizUp studio Plain Vanilla for $1.2 million

Mike Minotti December 22, 2016 8:17 AM

Goldgenie is selling gold-plated iPhones featuring Donald Trump's face.

This store is selling gold-plated Trump iPhones for $151,000

Kerry Close, Fortune December 22, 2016 8:05 AM

A man types on a computer keyboard in this illustration picture February 28, 2013.

Lithuania says it found Russian spyware on its government computers

Reuters December 22, 2016 7:35 AM

Screenshot of bCRM

Exclusive

Howdy brings bCRM to its Botkit to manage marketing campaigns for Slack and Facebook Messenger

Khari Johnson December 22, 2016 6:50 AM

ProtonMail: Signups

Encrypted email app ProtonMail reports surge in users after latest Yahoo hack revealed

Paul Sawers December 22, 2016 1:27 AM

Yahoo email scan shows U.S. spy push to recast constitutional privacy

Reuters December 21, 2016 11:03 PM

Uber's new self-driving car

Uber stops testing self-driving cars in San Francisco, says ‘committed to California’

Ken Yeung December 21, 2016 5:28 PM

The Nintendo Switch in action.

NES Classic, Switch, and Mario grew Nintendo’s search volume to 3 times the size of PlayStation’s

Jeff Grubb December 21, 2016 4:15 PM

Google's self-driving car out in the wild in Palo Alto, Calif.

Honda in talks with Alphabet’s Waymo to add self-driving technology in vehicles

Reuters December 21, 2016 3:30 PM

The Huawei Nexus 6P.

Google and Huawei are investigating Nexus 6P premature shutdown issue

Emil Protalinski December 21, 2016 3:15 PM

Apple Watch Series 2.

Guest

The smartwatch market is running out of time — can it recover?

Greg Petro, First Insight December 21, 2016 3:10 PM

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VB Live

How real-time data helps Feeding America fill the meal gap for 49 million (VB Live)

VB Staff December 21, 2016 2:45 PM

Conversational interfaces

Guest

The 8 best chatbots of 2016

Etienne Mérineau, Heyday.ai December 21, 2016 2:10 PM

Super Mario Run is mammothly popular.

Nintendo: Super Mario Run had 40 million downloads in 4 days

Jeff Grubb December 21, 2016 1:45 PM

Zul'jin in action.

Warcraft troll Zul’jin joins the Heroes of the Storm roster

Mike Minotti December 21, 2016 1:01 PM

Retain users or else

Guest

3 tips on improving chatbot retention

Stefan Kojouharov December 21, 2016 12:10 PM