Science and Technology

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had recently confirmed that U.S. firms will soon be granted licenses that will allow them to sell non-sensitive components to Huawei. Now, a new report from Politico claims the Commerce Department is likely to soon grant a six-month reprieve that will permit U.S. companies to do business with Huawei […]

John Carmack, the chief technology officer of Facebook’s VR subsidiary Oculus, is stepping down this week. Carmack posted the news on Facebook today, saying he plans to focus his time instead on artificial general intelligence. He will remain in a “consulting CTO” position at Oculus, where he will “still have a […]

China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest videogame company by revenue, is looking to make more console games for U.S. consumers by leveraging its partnership with Japan’s Nintendo Co., Tencent officials said. Tencent, which dominates its home market with smartphone and personal-computer games, has acquired stakes in prominent U.S. game makers […]

When you heard that Death Stranding was coming to PCs next summer, did you cringe at the rumors that it might be yet another Epic Games Store exclusive? You can relax. Kojima Productions and 505 Games have confirmed that the game will be available through both Steam and Epic’s store at the same time for $60 (£55) when it’s ready in summer […]

Google announced yesterday that it’s teaming up with three security companies to help identify malicious apps before they’re published on the Play Store and can potentially do harm to Android users. The company is calling this partnership the App Defense Alliance. Android is on over 2.5 billion devices, according to […]

Neural Magic, a startup founded by a couple of MIT professors, who figured out a way to run machine learning models on commodity CPUs, announced a $15 million seed investment today. Comcast Ventures  led the round, with participation from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Pillar VC and Amdocs. The company had previously received […]

For long, Motorola was dealing with devices that were designed for the average budget users with prices never going beyond the mark of $500. However, this era is about to end as Motorola promises to get back to its era of premium phones with prices that will surely reflect the […]

The issue with Apple watch models has been identified by the Apple users, which was responsible for the cracking of the screens. The company has now decided to launch a replacement program for the users whose watch was affected. On all the eligible models of Apple watches, the screen shall […]

The world of smart speakers is being dominated irrevocably by Amazon. The very important reason for Amazon domineering the smart speakers’ world inclines towards the plethora of features it imparts to its users. Another nifty feature has been recently added to Alexa. This feature will be very useful to the […]

Minecraft Earth’s closed beta has launched on Android in Seattle, London, Tokyo, Stockholm, and Mexico City, its developer Mojang announced today. If you’re lucky enough to have a beta invite and live in one of the launch cities, then you can start playing the augmented reality mobile game right now. You’ll […]