Apple will address kids’ iPhone addiction with enhanced iOS parental controls
Apple has a response of sorts to activist shareholders concerned about kids’ addiction to iPhones: Enhanced parental controls are coming to iOS. Ahead of...
The DeanBeat: What to expect from CES 2018 — the stupid and the good
I’m expanding my horizons from games to tech next week as I head off to Las Vegas for CES 2018, the big tech trade...
Clan HQ is a messaging app designed for mobile games
Eric Schiermeyer had a lot of success as the cofounder of Zynga and the analytics that it brought to gaming. Now he’s got a...
If Destiny 2’s overpriced Alexa speaker is the future, count me out
As a longtime Destiny player, I’ve occasionally found myself wishing for the companionship of one of the game’s Ghosts — floating robots that offer...
Hey, Alexa: Turn Amazon into the top resource for gamers
Amazon’s Alexa has long had games inspired by Batman, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Jeopardy, but today, as Echo Buttons go on sale for the first time, Amazon...
How CA Technologies is brewing startups within a big enterprise
I first met Otto Berkes when he was one of the founders of Microsoft’s Xbox team, alongside three other crazy Microsoft colleagues. They hatched a...
Gfycat applies AI to the challenge of personalized animated GIFs
Has artificial intelligence ever been put to a more silly human endeavor? Gfycat said it is launching Gfycat AI to apply machine learning to...
Twitch will launch NBA minor league game streaming on December 15 — with fan commentary
Twitch has been the place to go to see gamers show off their latest moves in the NBA 2K basketball video game series. Now,...
Google’s top tech searches in 2017: iPhone 8, iPhone X, Nintendo Switch, Samsung Galaxy S8, and Xbox One X
Just like every other tech company interested in playing the holiday PR game, Google puts together end-of-year lists for its various properties. Google may...
AlphaGo Teach coaches people to play Go like Google DeepMind’s AI
Google’s DeepMind subsidiary released a tool that’s designed to help people learn to play Go like its superhuman AlphaGo program. The system, called AlphaGo...