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Alexa! What the hell are you doing?!? Why Amazon’s personal assistant needs more smarts

By Mellisa Tolentino Mar 17, 2016

Alexa voice search is the pride of Amazon Echo, the e-tailer’s smart home hub. It’s convenient to use, but unfortunately, this ease of use could also be the device’s greatest downfall. National Public Radio…

Valve takes a smarter approach to paid mods with Dota 2

By Eric David Mar 17, 2016

Valve Corp made an ill-advised stab at charging players money for fan-made mods last year with Bethesda Game Studios’ Skyrim, and the move was so widely rejected by the gamer community that Valve quickly backpedaled…

Review: Taking flight in the Oculus Rift at #GDC16

By Robert Pleasant Mar 17, 2016

With all the virtual reality (VR) demos at the Game Developers Conference, one of the most anticipated headsets comes from Oculus VR. Attendees to the event could (after waiting in lengthy lines) test out…

St. Paddy’s Day regrets: Drunk shopping and online gambling

By Mellisa Tolentino Mar 17, 2016

St. Patrick’s Day is here. A day where you’ll see throngs of people wearing green, many of them roaming the street drunk out of their wits. Though there are many misconceptions and myths as to…

Blizzard to explore the world of Overwatch with animated shorts and comics

By Eric David Mar 17, 2016

Aside from some pre-match banter between heroes, there is little within Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch to explain the backstory of the game, but the game studio has big plans for how it is going to flesh…

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Box teams with Okta to make accessing files from mobile devices safer

By Maria Deutscher Mar 17, 2016

With cyberattacks against the enterprise continuing to increase both in sophistication and frequency, traditional authorization functionality is no longer sufficient to protect employee-owned devices. Box Inc. is expanding its partnership with Okta Inc. this…