Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle an FTC complaint that its Xbox platform illegally collected and retained information about children without their parents' consent, in violation of the Childre...
One of the more unexpected additions from iOS 17: Apple is dropping the "hey" from "Hey Siri." You no longer need that extra little introduction when communicating with Apple's smart assistant via voi...
It's going to be a WWDC for the ages. Good, bad - it's way too early to say yet. Either way, this will be a memorable one. Apple's keynote kicks off the annual developer conference at 10AM PT ...
[photo1]George YangWhen voice actor Jennie Kwan started out in the 1990s, she auditioned for a video game that wasn't released yet. She recalls going to the engineering producer's home studio in Laure...
PropTech firm Aurum is acquiring NestAway, a once high-flying Indian startup operating in the same space, for up to $10.9 million, in a deal that marks a near complete erosion in value for the startup...
Robert Asprin was a fantasy and science fiction author best known for his humorous Myth Adventures novels, and for co-editing the groundbreaking Thieves' World series of shared-world anthologies. Auth...
Measurabl, a startup developing a platform for environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in the real estate space, today announced that it raised $93 million in a Series D funding tranche co-led...
Four years after AMC Theatres launched its on-demand streaming service, AMC Theatres On Demand, the company is now transferring its entire library of films over to Vudu, the Fandango-owned digital vid...
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be the next PlayStation Studios game to make its way to PC, Sony announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The game, which debuted in 2021, will launch on the new platform ...
[photo1]Nadia AsparouhovaIt was the spring of 2016, and I was in the Oval Office, waiting to interview for a job. Only I wasn't in Washington, DC. I was at the headquarters of GitHub, a code hosting p...
While the legendary cashless society may eventually become reality, for now cash is still a pretty useful thing. There are still scenarios in which you need some paper money, whether it's a local rest...
Anne Boden nearly lost a grip on Starling Bank years ago when the neobank was in the middle of a coup effort led by its CTO, but now it looks like Boden who is doing the walking away. The outspoken fo...
This article features an interview with Krijn de Nood, the CEO and co-founder of cultivated meat startup Meatable. De Nood will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amst...
[photo1]Grace HuckinsNearly 30 years ago, when the first effective Alzheimer's drugs were approved, optimism was in the air. True, the drugs didn't slow the underlying disease, but they made a meaning...
Netflix is at a turning point where the company will soon discover whether or not its brand still has staying power and the ability to dominate in today's streaming market, given the abundance of choi...
It's 1999, and my friends and I are surfing warez sites using Internet Explorer on our 98SE gaming rig. Finally we push past the scams and porn to find a list of files on an FTP server, labeled ".rar,...
It's finally happened: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing.The Eu...
Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised to see someone skate-walking down the halls of Detroit's Huntington Place convention center. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of interesting stuff happening a...
Elvia WilkFor the past several months, I've fallen asleep listening to a woman named Teri--or someone like her--every night. I crawl into bed around midnight, open a certain proprietary wellness app o...