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Angry Birds 2: Freemium Clips Its Wings

Angry Birds 2 -- the 13th installment of Angry Birds and the original game's first proper sequel -- on Thursday became available for iOS and Android. ...

Microsoft Fans Embark on Windows 10 Migration

Microsoft on Wednesday began offering Windows 10 as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8 users in 190 countries, as promised. Eligible users began receiving taskbar notifications, beckoning them to begin the migration to Windows 10 ...

Motorola Promises Its Smartphones Will Love You Back

Motorola, on Tuesday launched three new handsets -- Moto X Style, Moto X Play and a refreshed Moto G -- designed to end the "one-sided relationships" between smartphones and consumers ...

Nintendo’s Sleep Monitor Is More Than a Dream

It's a piece that makes Nintendo's upcoming hardware and software platform even more puzzling. A patent application published last week has revealed more information about Nintendo's plans to build out its hardware ecosystem with contactless sleep monitoring technology ...

Amazon Reaps What It Sowed

Amazon's market capitalization on Friday reached US$270 billion, surging past Walmart, following a surprisingly strong second quarter earnings report ...

Twitch Yanks Player Controls From Flash

Game-streaming service Twitch on Thursday joined Apple and other tech companies in swearing off its dependence on Adobe's Flash ...

Bogies Spotted: Jet Ventures Into Amazon’s Airspace

Amazon has been in its prime for quite some time, but there's a new show in town, and it claims that its prices are lower. Online merchant Jet opened its inventory of millions of products to consumers on Tuesday. ...

A New Challenger Pounds the Street Fighter V Pavement

Capcom on Sunday introduced the first of four new characters for its upcoming Street Fighter V, as it continued a reveal that promises a more connected, less confusing experience for players of the next installment in the decades-old series ...

Angry Birds 2 Set for Late July Landing

Six years and more than a dozen spinoffs after Angry Birds first took flight, the game finally will receive a proper sequel on July 30, Rovio announced last week ...

Google May Goose Mobile Device Impulse Buys

Google on Wednesday announced that it is giving tablet and smartphone users more purchase options in an effort to respond to shoppers' "micro moments." ...

Google Photos Backup Keeps Collecting Until You Make It Stop

Uninstalling Google's Photos app doesn't turn off backup sync, meaning photos taken with Android devices could be saved to the company's cloud storage, even if the user doesn't intend to store them there, Google acknowledged on Tuesday ...

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata Leaves Legacy of Charm

After more than a decade of shaping fan-forward Nintendo philosophies, President Satoru Iwata died Saturday at the age of 55. Iwata had been struggling with cancer for about a year ...

Microsoft’s New Groove

Microsoft's Music app, formerly known as "Xbox Music," will sport a makeover when it arrives rebranded in Windows 10 as "Groove," the company announced earlier this week. ...

Facebook Gives News Feed a Tune-Up

Facebook on Thursday slammed the hood, wiped its hands, and introduced the latest set of upgrades to its News Feed engine. The all-new 2015 Facebook News Feed gives users more control over the content they see when they cruise the world's largest social network ...

Microsoft Cuts 7,800 as It Rethinks ‘Mobile First’ Strategy

CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday announced that Microsoft will reduce its workforce by 7,800 as it refines its mobile message and strategy ...

Amazon’s Prime Day Could Turn Into Christmas in July

In celebration of its 20th birthday, Amazon plans to push wish list items into shopping carts and new customers into its Prime ecosystem this July 15, dubbed "Prime Day." ...

Microsoft Anchors Minecraft Strategy to Education

Microsoft wants to find ways to assist the pioneering teachers who have taught pupils through the sandbox construction game Minecraft. The company earlier this week launched its Minecraft in Education initiative to turn the pioneers into pillars ...

Yelp Study Blasts Google for Screwing With Search

Google has been tampering with the responses its search engine gives to queries and, as a result, has been hurting social welfare, alleges a survey conducted by Michael Luca, a Harvard Business School economist, and Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and former Federal Trade Commission advisor. Yelp sponsored the research ...

The Encryption Software Scuffle

In the face of encryption that could block brute force attempts for years, law enforcement agencies at every level have been calling for keys that allow investigators to crack open smartphones and court cases alike. ...

Oculus Rift: This Is My Final Form

No more screendoor-effect issues or motion-induced sickness. On-board power, outside power requirements under control. With each prior iteration of its Rift headset, Oculus VR assured gamers that they hadn't yet seen the its final form. Finally, in the run-up to this year's E3 and at the show, came the invitation for everyone to "step into the Rift" and behold what the Kickstarted virtual reality headset has become...

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