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Keyless society: Volvo plans to replace car keys with a smartphone app starting in 2016

Mobile carriers begin blocking ads at network level in Europe

Game of the Year goes to postapocalypse game Fallout 4

Hideo Kojima gets Hall of Fame honors from the video game industry

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata gets posthumous lifetime achievement award from gaming peers

Yahoo’s Flurry unveils redesign, launches analytics apps and Apple TV SDK

Pivotal buys another software development agency, Neo

Yummly is hungry to monetize its 15 million unique visitors

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Hideo Kojima: ‘I feel extremely free right now. I’m doing exactly what I want to do’

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How I landed a Google internship in 6 months

Guillermo Del Toro: Games are ‘only limited by the bastards with money’

Fallout 4 maker Bethesda is working on 3 new games

Facebook releases 1.6GB of children’s stories for training its AI

Kanye West is reportedly considering legal action against The Pirate Bay

Tomb Raider’s writer shows the rise of storytelling’s importance in gaming

Yahoo warns of industry-wide ‘pause’ in mobile growth for 2016

InnoGames’ mobile stable sees 100% growth in 2015 thanks to Forge of Empires

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MWC 2016: LG places massive bet on G5 launch to revive flagging smartphone business

Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1 billion hours played, and 66 versions

Apple rolls out iOS update to restore devices bricked by ‘error 53’

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Cortana, Edge, and Skype improvements

Google Play Games drops Google+ integration

Twitter launches customer feedback tool and direct message deep links for businesses

The Tribeca Film Festival is now accepting submissions via Snapchat (updated)

Google launches Cloud Vision API in beta following limited preview

Hands-on with LinkNYC: the free Wi-Fi hub and tablet that killed the payphone

We’re one step closer to a world with non-removable SIM cards

Firefox 2.0 for iOS arrives with 3D touch support, password manager and search improvements
Carey Chen Joins NVBOTS Board of Directors

Spanish taxis block central Madrid in Uber and Cabify protest

IBM to acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 billion

Minecraft’s first big update of the year comes to PC and Pocket Edition

Nimble Collective raises $8.5M for cloud-based animation community

TwitchCon 2016 moves to Comic-Con’s home: San Diego

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Wearable startup Orion Labs raises $9M from Motorola Solutions and Avalon Ventures

Microsoft updates Translator with AI-powered offline translation on Android, OCR support on iOS

Skype starts to roll out group video calling on iOS and Android
