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Virtual reality will be a bustling industry by the middle of the next decade, but getting to that point will take some time, according to a study released today. The new 10-year in... More

The exponential growth of eSports is undeniable, especially as it continues to be embraced by big-name entities such as ESPN, Amazon and many others. Not surprisingly, Facebook too... More

According to a new report, digital game spending is well over three times that of eBooks, and a lot of that spending is happening on consoles and PC/Mac, where players spend around... More

Slack’s attempts at small talk are about to get a whole lot better - it’s just been announced the cloud-based workplace messaging system will incorporate IBM Watson’s smarts ... More

Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That’s why today it will start showing shoppable tags on photos from 20 retai... More

Whither goes the Vine refugee? With Twitter’s announcement last week that it’s shutting down the six-second looping video platform, Viners who have amassed audience have to thi... More

GM is creating what it’s calling the “first cognitive mobility platform” in partnership with IBM, using the latter company’s Watson learning supercomputer. What that means ... More

Users will still “be able to access and download your Vines,” the company says in a blog post. “We’ll be keeping the website online because we think it’s important to sti... More

Imagine receiving a phone call from your aging mother seeking your help because she has forgotten her banking password. Except it’s not your mother. The voice on the other end of... More

IBM Chief Executive Virginia Rometty, speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJDLive 2016 technology conference, pointed to the company’s new deal with General Motors Co. to pa... More

Virtual reality is touted daily as the next big thing, VR events are springing up across the country, and Sony’s first PlayStation VR has just launched to encouraging reviews. So... More

The launch of the PlayStation 4 Pro and Microsoft’s announcement regarding Project Scorpio has broken new ground in console gaming as it marks the first time that console manufac... More

The music industry is beginning to embrace virtual reality. Universal Music Group (UMG) is launching a new mobile VR app called VRTGO that will allow 3D/360-degree live-streaming p... More

Having already been disrupted by the rise of mobile phones and streaming services like Netflix, many in Hollywood are keeping their eyes on virtual reality (for what it’s worth, ... More

Tata Communications has awarded its $50,000 Formula One prize this year to a virtual reality innovation which transports racing fans from anywhere in the world to the middle of liv... More

How good of an NBA 2K17 player do you think you really are? Well, you're about to find out because on Thursday, Sony announced that it is teaming up with the ESL gaming network and... More

The National Football League is amid a broad implementation of Slack, an enterprise messaging app credited with facilitating collaboration among internal teams and used to build on... More

At this point, it seems that virtual reality really is the next big thing, and Los Angeles is positioning itself as the new industry’s creative hub. VR joins together Hollywood, ... More

Facebook’s Instant Articles — the format that displays publishers’ content in a faster-loading, distraction-free view when accessed by Facebook users on mobile devices — ar... More

Many of us grew up in a world in which mass media was uni-directional. We passively watched TV and movies, listened to music, and read newspapers and books without them interacting... More