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• Google is entering the gaming business, starting with a trivia app

  Bloomberg reports that Google is launching a social gaming startup called Arcade, with plans to build a quiz title as its ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Uber gets into the bike-sharing game with its latest acquisition

  Uber has acquired Jump, a bike-sharing startup that offers dockless electric bicycles for hire on demand across San Francisco ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Someone raised over $100k to make a wooden egg on Kickstarter

  A wooden egg... why didn't I think of that? Where I come from, people will willingly fork over $20 for a two-ingredient dish consisting of bread and an avocado -- which literally grow on trees around here (Southern California). So it's hard to make fun of a $13 egg handcrafted ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Intel unveils its Core i9 processors for faster gaming and video editing on laptops

  At an event in Beijing today, Intel showed off its latest 8th-gen Core i9 processors that are designed to allow for improved ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Introducing Hard Fork: a new cryptocurrency and blockchain brand by TNW

  One consequence of the ever-changing nature of technology is that we – as a media outlet – have to evolve with it. This often means broadening our horizons to include new paradigms and topics that might have once existed exclusively on the margins of the tech scene. Today we ...

  • Mix

• TNW is launching Hard Fork: A blog all about blockchain and cryptocurrency

  Today, we're launching Hard Fork: a brand new TNW-powered blog all about cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and the people behind ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• Google's Flutter framework for building iOS and Android apps launches in beta

  Google took to the stage at MWC 2018 to announce a beta release of Flutter, its free and open-source framework for building ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• This AI checks NDAs for free - and offers a grim glimpse of the future

  NDA Lynn, an AI that can evaluate confidentiality agreements for free, is a perfect example of the role artificial intelligence ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• Tired of spammy ads and blatant banners? Blockchain might fix that

  BitClave tries to fix the broken ad model with a blockchain-powered platform that enables businesses and customers to interact ...

  • Jamie Tolentino

• Blizzard revives Warcraft III after 15 years with major update and tournament

  The first-ever 'Warcraft III Invitational' will see well-known players from around the world go up against each other this ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• SpaceX's satellites for beaming internet access to earth are now in orbit

  SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket that delivered two Starlink satellites for delivering broadband access ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• A $42 million '10,000 year clock' is being installed on Jeff Bezos' property

  Amazon's Jeff Bezos announced that construction of the 10,000 year clock has begun on his property, to encourage thinking ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal