Report: Major League Gaming shuttered after $46 million Activision buyout
Majority of the cash will go towards paying off MLG's mounting debts. — Major League Gaming, the once mighty American e-sports organisation, has been bought by Activision Blizzard in a $46 million (...
GM invests $500M in Lyft as part of a $1B round at a $5.5B valuation, will work with Lyft on a fleet of on-demand autonomous vehicles within next 10 years
Lyft And General Motors Are Partnering To Bring You On-Demand Driverless Cars — Silicon Valley companies have given …
Lenovo expands X1 line with new Yoga convertible, tablet, updated Carbon laptop, standalone monitor, and all-in-one
Lenovo's X1 PC line scores new Thinkpads and more — Lenovo's popular X1 product lineup is getting a big expansion in coming weeks, not the least of which is the addition of yet another ThinkPad X1 C...
Windows 10 is Now Active on 200 Million Devices Worldwide
Share Tweet Pin it Reddit Share Share — Microsoft announced this morning that Windows 10 is now “active” on over 200 million devices worldwide. This figure presumably includes PCs, phones, Xb...
Mark Zuckerberg's challenge in 2016 is to build an AI butler like in ‘Iron Man’
For the past year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been reading two books a month. He's spent other years learning Mandarin or only eating meat that he killed. — This year, Zuckerberg is clearly e...
All Ford 2017 cars with Sync 3 will include CarPlay and Android Auto out of the box, 2016 vehicles upgradeable later this year
Ford is finally adding CarPlay and Android Auto to its cars — Ford has long indicated that CarPlay and Android Auto were part of its long-term infotainment strategy …
Net Applications: Windows 10 growth slows, holds 9.96% share of desktop operating systems
Windows 10 ends 2015 under 10% market share — Check out all of our GamesBeat Rewind 2015 end of the year coverage here. — 9.96 percent. Close, but no cigar.
WiFi Alliance approves new 802.11ah “HaLow” WiFi standard, aimed at connected home devices
New WiFi standard offers more range for less power — The WiFi Alliance has finally approved the eagerly-anticipated 802.11ah WiFi standard and dubbed it “HaLow.”
Lenovo unveils keyboard, pico projector, and 3D imaging attachments for new modular $899 ThinkPad X1 tablet
Lenovo Launches The Modular ThinkPad X1 Tablet at CES — The convertible tablet segment has certainly gained a foothold over the last year or two, and now we are seeing a lot of great designs in this...
CES 2016: Acer launches first Chromebase with Intel Core CPU, new laptops, Iconia One 8 tablet
In addition to the Chromebase 24, the new systems include a refreshed Chromebook 11 and Aspire Switch 12 S and V Nitro Black Edition notebooks with Intel's latest RealSense 3D camera.
VR still faces unknown long-term psychological effects and unsettling physical effects
What Does Virtual Reality Do to Your Body and Mind? — As technology comes of Age, headset makers, media companies grapple with potential side effects — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Software worker Erin Bell ...
Audi Leads $28M Investment In Rental Startup Silvercar
Silvercar, a startup rethinking the auto rental experience in airports, already seems pretty tied to Audi — after all, every vehicle that Silvercar rents out is a silver Audi. Now the companies are d...
Whirlpool integrates Amazon's Dash into its smart appliances
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Toyota, QNX And Others Adopt Ford's SmartDeviceLink Platform For Connecting Mobile Apps And Cars
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Facebook has contingency measures to allow its apps to operate on Android phones without going through Google's app store
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As private funding cools, more tech firms may IPO in 2016, but will need to show more for higher valuations
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Both major US political parties will use a new vote-tallying app made by Microsoft and Interknowlogy at Iowa caucuses this year
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Dennis Crowley on Foursquare's Pilgrim location technology and how the company will focus more on how its data can be used by other appmakers in 2016
Alex Heath / Tech Insider : Tweets: @arainert . Thanks: @stevekovach Tweets: Alex Rainert / @arainert : Good one on @foursquare's unique ability to understand nuanced contextual connections b/t socia...
Phasing out of SHA-1 encryption means millions of people in developing world, where use of older devices and browsers is prevalent, will be at risk from hackers
Joshua Eaton / Christian Science Monitor : Tweets: @privacymatters Tweets: Privacy Matters / @privacymatters : Digital divide widens as the Web adopts stronger encryption standard http://www.csmonito...
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