Overwatch continues to be the lynchpin of Blizzard’s line-up, and the company is showing no signs of slowing down in both its support of the game, and its monetization of its audience, now with a new event celebrating the Chinese New Year.

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When I first moved to California in 1990, I was told by Stanford’s campus housing people to keep an earthquake emergency box on hand at all times. Its contents included a radio, flashlights, warm clothes, medical supplies and a few other items. Later in Boston, I stuck with the idea, […]

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Wind turbines, of the Block Island Wind Farm, the first US offshore wind farm, tower above the water off the shores of Rhode Island. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images Every January, Michael Liebreich and Angus McCrone, founder and chief editor of Bloomberg New Energy Finance respectively, look into their crystal ball and predict […]

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Companies like Uber, Waze and others have demonstrated the ability to detect all kinds of problems on the network and steer around them in a predictable manner. So why can’t enterprises do the same?

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Financial Services firms have long pioneered the use of advanced technologies, but a new study shows executives may be overstating their digital bona fides. While surveyed executives rated their proficiency in digital transformation readiness high (70 percent), just 38 percent of executives and 42 percent of employees said decisions weremade […]

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The food and beverage veterans at CAVU Venture Partners struck gold when they bet on Bai, which sold for $1.7 billion. Now after backing 12 companies from their first fund, they’re launching a $209 million second fund to do it again.

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The high-tech hive mind also predicted the Cubs’ victory, Trump’s 2016 “Person”-hood, and other recent upsets.

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Flawed film, flawed disc.

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Will Apple launch the ‘iPhone X’ in 2017? This curious name is suggested in the latest reports from the supply chains working on the smartphone hardware for Cupertino. Apple could be ready to drop the ‘8’ from the brand and go with something straight out of a 1950s Science Fiction caper.

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