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nWay and Lionsgate show off Power Rangers: Legacy Wars mobile game

Virtual reality fishing game Bait set for Google Daydream after catching 1 million players

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Mozilla’s privacy-focused Firefox Focus browser for iOS is now available in 27 languages

Google’s Allo gets Lucky, its first bot after Google Assistant

Google Translate now lets you convert from Japanese to English by hovering your phone over text

Kik acquires video chat company Rounds, opens offices in Toronto and Tel Aviv

Berlin’s Raisin announces $32 million round to continue its international fintech expansion

Flappy Bird creator releases extremely difficult Ninja Spinki Challenges mobile game

Facebook’s ‘Privacy Basics’ site now more mobile-friendly with new guides and a FAQ

Uber was the most-expensed service, with 6% of all business receipts in 2016

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The new Cisco looks a lot like the old IBM and HP

Accenture’s 5 predictions for human-focused technology

Facebook hires former Xiaomi exec Hugo Barra to lead VR efforts

Bluehost owner Endurance is laying off 440 people in Utah

5 bots to try this week: Engazify, The Dude, Shakespeare Bot, Mee6, and Aethex

Sensor Tower: King’s Bubble Witch 3 Saga crosses 10 million downloads since January 11 launch

Qualcomm shares fall 4% as it misses revenue targets and faces Apple litigation

Microsoft’s next Windows 10 preview build will include Game Mode

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The Top 5 3DS games? GamesBeat Decides

Public cloud infrastructure provider Faction raises $11 million

Alexa has a few things to say about Groundhog Day

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Pokémon Duel lacks Pokémon Go’s big draw: simplicity

Doctolib raises $28 million to be the top doctor-booking platform in Europe

Hi-Rez Studios partners with Uproar to get players to keep playing Paladins (update)

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Amazon’s latest version of Lumberyard game engine targets accessibility

Why the Department of Veteran Affairs canceled its contract with AI startup Flow Health

Facebook starts testing more ads in Messenger home screen

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How Ubisoft built Ghost Recon Wildlands as a huge open world where you can do anything

Google I/O 2017 dates announced: May 17-19, in Mountain View (again)

Facebook stops personalizing trending topics to your interests, adds publisher headlines

Rogue One special effects team to speak at Game Developers Conference

Lyft now lets commuters use pretax dollars for Line rides to and from work

Pokémon Sun and Moon now work with the 3DS’s Pokémon Bank storage app
