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It’s a tradition now at GamesBeat to try to look back and sum up the year as a single defining trend. This started out as a fun exercise to spot similar elements across multiple games, like . More recently, however, this trend is shifting to reflect the wider culture of gaming. We named . And […]

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It’s a tradition now at GamesBeat to try to look back and sum up the year as a single defining trend. This started out as a fun exercise to spot similar elements across multiple games, like . More recently, however, this trend is shifting to reflect the wider culture of gaming. We named . And […]

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After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper. “I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,” he said in an end-of-year note posted on his Facebook page for everyone to see. Acknowledging that the social network played its part in the spread of hate speech, election interference and misinformation, Zuckerberg’s […]

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Porsche’s first all-electric sports car might be the most hotly anticipated vehicle of 2019. Even Tesla owners are hooked. In a recent interview with CNET, Porsche North America president and CEO Klaus Zellmer said if everyone who has placed a deposit to pre-order the car actually buys it, the Taycan will be sold out in its […]

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2018! We did it! Way to go, Earth! We’re number one! We’re number one! As we do each year, the TechCrunch Staff — our writers, our illustrators, our editors and more — have gathered together and come up with a mega list of our favorite things of 2018. “Things” here is intentionally defined rather loosely. […]

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Google Home has the Google Home Mini. Amazon’s Echo has the Echo Dot. And when Samsung’s Bixby-driven smart speaker — the Galaxy Home — debuts sometime in 2019, it might have its own entry-level counterpart. That’s according to , which in a report today claimed that Samsung will release at least one other speaker next year in […]

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Blockchain gaming is one of those technologies that no one is excited about except for a handful of startups … and maybe GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahashi. Blockchain, of course, is the innovation that powers like bitcoin. When it comes to gaming, however, a number of companies are promising that it will — well, I […]

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Artificial intelligence is without question one of the most captivating and influential corners of the technology world today, but it’s also one of the noisiest. To wrap our heads around the complicated mashup of subjects that coalesce to make coverage of the AI beat possible, we write the AI Weekly. The Weekly is our sandbox of sorts, a place to let […]

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It seems someone took Every Frame a Painting literally: The Very Slow Movie Player is a device that turns cinema into wallpaper, advancing the image by a single second every hour. The result is an interesting household object that makes something new of even the most familiar film. The idea occurred to designer and engineer […]

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Sandra Bullock’s star power can still sell a movie, apparently. Though reviews for Netflix horror film “Bird Box” have been lukewarm – the movie has a respectable, but not outstanding, score of 65% on Rotten Tomatoes – it has still managed to break records for the streaming service, Netflix said this afternoon. The company announced […]

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