US regulators have approved a new breed of financial product that will give people a way to invest in bitcoin through their brokerage for the first time, as if it were a regular stock. A selection of financial institutions, including household names like BlackRock and Fidelity, have been given... Read more

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has released its list of nominees for the 27th annual D.I.C.E. Awards. The nominations include several major releases... Read more

VMware’s new owner is ending the virtualization and cloud computing company’s partner programs. It’s unclear who or how many current partners will be able to sell VMware-related offerings after April 2024, leaving potential for tens of thousands of businesses to be disrupted. Broadcom, which closed its VMware acquisition in... Read more

During CES 2024, a collaboration between Google and Samsung was unveiled to streamline Android sharing and enhance ecosystem compatibility. This alliance introduces a unified Quick Share feature that simplifies the sharing experience for Samsung phone users and incorporates previously Samsung-exclusive features into non-Samsung Android phones with supported devices. The... Read more

Sure, some people talk to their plants (King Charles III among them), but the leafy things just don’t respond in the same way pets do. Until now. An innovation we spotted at CES 2024 called PlantPetz gives your up-till-now quiet houseplants personalities all their own. Think Big Mouth Billy... Read more

Do AI companies need to pay for the training data that powers their generative AI systems? The question is hotly contested in Silicon Valley and in a wave of lawsuits levied against tech behemoths like Meta, Google, and OpenAI. In Washington, DC, though, there seems to be a growing... Read more

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. In a new era for game distribution, Activision is collaborating with Coda to launch its first Call of Duty: Mobile web store today. This kind of... Read more

Unknown threat actors are actively targeting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that allow them to bypass two-factor authentication and execute malicious code inside networks that use a widely used virtual private network appliance sold by Ivanti, researchers said Wednesday. Ivanti reported bare-bones details concerning the zero-days in posts published on... Read more

Among the many announcements at CES 2024, Amazon introduced several new artificial intelligence (AI) tools for its Alexa personal assistant. Last year Amazon introduced new tools to enable developers to build generative AI experiences, and that is beginning to come to fruition now. Alexa users can start to try... Read more

It’s CES season, which means that new tech-forward products for every aspect of your life are being unveiled left, right and center in Las Vegas this week. Products geared toward upgrading your home life are no exception. We’ve seen everything from AI-powered dog-nanny robots to meat toasters (really, vertical... Read more