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and shocked the gaming world Thursday when the companies announced that they were . Activision would no longer publisher the series, including the ongoing Destiny 2. Bungie is now going it alone, and analysts are chiming in with how this could impact both companies. It’ll have a financial effect on both. But the analysts also […]

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and shocked the gaming world Thursday when the companies announced that they were . Activision would no longer publisher the series, including the ongoing Destiny 2. Bungie is now going it alone, and analysts are chiming in with how this could impact both companies. It’ll have a financial effect on both. But the analysts also […]

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The Chromecast Audio is no more. Google has decided to stop manufacturing the audio dongle that allowed you to add any ‘dumb’ speaker to your Google Cast setup. If you still want one, you’ll have to hurry — and to entice you to buy a discontinued product, Google is now selling its remaining inventory for $15 […]

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The New York Times is expanding its efforts around audio programming and voice assistants, the company announced today. The NYT says it’s launching a daily flash briefing for Alexa devices, as well as an interactive news quiz, and – in an interesting twist – it will be introducing “enhanced coverage” in its Sunday paper that […]

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Improbable may be pissed at Unity, but they still want them back. In a blog post titled “A final statement on SpatialOS and Unity,” the team at the cloud gaming startup aimed to tell their side of the story and implored Unity to “clarify their terms or unsuspend our licenses.” Unity is a game engine […]

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CES is a yearly ritual to imagine what’s possible and display the strange, innovative, and silly. There can be surprises, but for a highly anticipated conference that attracts tens of thousands of people from around the world, some trends are very predictable: New televisions are rolled out, tech companies take subtle potshots at the competition (see […]

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CES is a yearly ritual to imagine what’s possible and display the strange, innovative, and silly. There can be surprises, but for a highly anticipated conference that attracts tens of thousands of people from around the world, some trends are very predictable: New televisions are rolled out, tech companies take subtle potshots at the competition (see […]

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Watch out, Waymo — Mobileye has its sights set on you. The Tel Aviv developer of autonomous car systems, which , had an eventful few days at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. During a presentation headlined by cofounder and CEO Amnon Shashua, Mobileye announced that two Chinese partners —  — will tap its technology to […]

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Watch out, Waymo — Mobileye has its sights set on you. The Tel Aviv developer of autonomous car systems, which , had an eventful few days at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. During a presentation headlined by cofounder and CEO Amnon Shashua, Mobileye announced that two Chinese partners —  — will tap its technology to […]

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When you think of the word wearables in a CES context, the image that typically comes to mind is of smartwatches — at this point, pretty iterative ones. There are the round digital ones; the round analog ones; the square, rounded square, and rectangular ones, each design set in stone years ago and little changed […]

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