If you don’t have a prodder for the Nintendo Switch you might be able to pick one up at a Gamestop on launch day.

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With the exception of EMV chip cards, the retail payment business has smoothly grown more digital.

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In the battle for ownership of the smart home, it may be retailers who lose.

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Heart risk factors—especially diabetes—are some of the strongest predictors of dementia down the road.

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Google and Amsterdam-based researchers show a widely-used encryption algorithm is broken. Here’s what that means and why it matters to the average consumer.

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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are fierce rivals on the pitch, but there is no comparison on social media. Ronaldo generated $500 million for Nike last year from promoted posts versus $53.5 million for Messi.

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You might not think it’s possible for hackers to steal data from computers that aren’t even connected to the Internet. They definitely can, and one newly-developed technique for doing it is truly mind-blowing.

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NVIDIA set out years ago to turn GeForce into a platform from a gaming card. Have they succeeded?

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With the public debut of its new deep learning-powered toxic speech filter, Alphabet Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas) offers the perfect model: a focus on language over ideas, an open API available to others, transparency in how the model was built and what it looks for and an open feedback loop

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Learn about the next opportunities and challenges for the virtual reality as it collides even deeper with the music industry.

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