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White House names retired Air Force general as nation’s first cyber security chief

DOJ studying if self-driving cars pose ‘terrorist threat’

A 14-year-old built an Alexa skill for checking the status of AWS

DJ Steve Aoki is the latest celebrity to get his own mobile game

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ESL teams with sports company AEG to create more esports events

American Express has launched its Facebook Messenger bot

Feds: Stop using the Samsung Galaxy Note7

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Crash Bandicoot is 20 years old — and ready for a comeback

Overwatch gets ‘high bandwidth’ patch for PC, not PS4 and Xbox One

Pathfinder Adventures makes the leap from tablets to iOS and Android smartphones (update)

Ford buys commuter shuttle service Chariot

Analyst: Super Mario Run could hit 1.5 billion total downloads on iOS and Android

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Microsoft feels frisky after winning August, disses Sony over Fallout 4 user mods

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The DeanBeat: What Pokémon Go, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Mafia III share in common

Lip-syncing video giant Dubsmash rolls out Community Moments, nabs Warner as first channel sponsor

Apple TV continues to lose ground to Chromecast one year after its relaunch

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Mafia III has a gripping narrative that’s full of tough choices

China and Russia trump U.S. for the best developers in the world, says HackerRank

Shippo raises $7 million to further its goal of being Twilio for shipping
HMicro Raises $10.2 Million in Series C Financing

Apple’s first weekend iPhone sales figures are meaningless anyway

EU looking at extending some telecom security rules to WhatsApp and Skype

Xero to launch accounting bot for Facebook Messenger, iMessage, and Slack

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Banks urged to wait 2 or 3 years before offering bots to customers

FAA ‘strongly advises’ against using Samsung Galaxy Note7 in-flight

PlayStation 4 Pro is not a real 4K console

Cloud spend management company Coupa files to raise $75 million in IPO
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Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 again in August
