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Well, what have we here? If it isn’t the Samsung Galaxy S10, courtesy of perennial smartphone outer, EVLeaks. This marks one the first good looks we’ve got at the phone, which is likely due out in a couple of months at Mobile World Congress. It’s a pretty rough photo — the icons are all blurred […]

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creative director Cory Barlog is sitting on top of the world after winning at . After a five-year journey (which was more like seven years for him), his story about a father-son relationship came together as both a gameplay and storytelling masterpiece. I did a long interview with Barlog, who’s the creative director at Sony […]

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Cloudera and Hortonworks, two of the biggest players in the Hadoop big data space, today announced that they have finalized their all-stock merger. The new company will use the Cloudera brand and will continue to trade under the CLDR symbol on the New York Stock Exchange. “Today, we start an exciting new chapter for Cloudera […]

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The only kids’ programming language worth using, Scratch, just celebrated the launch of Scratch 3.0, an update that adds some interesting new functionality to the powerful open-source tool. Scratch, for those without school-aged children, is a block-based programming language that lets you make little games and “cartoons” with sprites and animated figures. The system is […]

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Apple today is sharing some good news in the wake of yesterday’s reveal of a significant, market-moving cut to its revenue forecast, attributed to declining iPhone sales in China’s slowing economy. The company says its App Store, at least, was having a good holiday. This year, customers spent $1.22 billion during the 2018 holiday season and […]

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General Motors (GM) is partnering with DoorDash to enable on-demand food deliveries via driverless cars. The duo announced that a pilot delivery program will kick off in San Francisco in “early 2019,” and will involve both meals from restaurants and groceries. As a century-old automotive giant, GM has been investing big to ensure that it’s […]

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General Motors (GM) is partnering with DoorDash to enable on-demand food deliveries via driverless cars. The duo announced that a pilot delivery program will kick off in San Francisco in “early 2019,” and will involve both meals from restaurants and groceries. As a century-old automotive giant, GM has been investing big to ensure that it’s […]

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Wondering what LG has in store for the upcoming 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? Wonder no longer. Today, about a week after taking the wraps off of new Google Assistant-equipped , the electronics behemoth detailed its . The undisputed headliners are LG’s OLED sets: the Z9, W9, E9, and C9 series. The Seoul company says […]

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Wondering what LG has in store for the upcoming 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? Wonder no longer. Today, about a week after taking the wraps off of new Google Assistant-equipped , the electronics behemoth detailed its . The undisputed headliners are LG’s OLED sets: the Z9, W9, E9, and C9 series. The Seoul company says […]

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A comparatively weak season for iPhone hardware is being offset somewhat by strong App Store sales, as Apple today that its app and game stores set new holiday records. The company had  of the year’s most popular selections and its own top picks in the middle of the holiday shopping season. Between 2018’s Christmas Eve […]

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