Holiday shoppers are buying fewer Fitbits and Apple Watches than expected
Facebook Live now lets you broadcast audio-only content
Star Wars: The Old Republic celebrates its 5th anniversary
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Overwatch reveals cover-star Tracer as its first queer character
Watch Dogs 2 excoriates Silicon Valley’s tech companies and warns about election fraud
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s Sabotage DLC arrives first on PlayStation 4 on January 31
Microsoft starts using Brotli compression algorithm in Edge
The Asheron’s Call MMO universe from the ’90s will finally go offline in January
Facebook now lets people sign into Android apps instantly with just their phone number
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Prisma gets social with new location-based photo feed
At 10, Roblox surpasses 30 million monthly users and 300 million hours of engagement
Instagram Stories get stickers and a hands-free camera option
Telltale’s The Walking Dead launches its third season with a two-part premier
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Crytek shuts down 5 game studios after a weak 2016
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As Facebook, Twitter, and Google face lawsuits over role in terrorism, victims’ lawyers change tack
Duet now lets you use the Touch Bar on your iPad with any Mac
Game academy names scholarship winners for WomenIn program
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Viber to let you send video messages and search for content in third-party services such as Wikipedia
PARC to develop peel-and-stick sensors to track the Internet of Things
From military exoskeletons, Superflex pioneers powered clothing to help the elderly move better
EU accuses Facebook of possibly lying during its WhatsApp merger review
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Cloudwith.me launches to make AWS cloud services easier for beginners to use
Samsung smart TVs get updated YouTube app to support HDR videos
Never Eat Alone raises $1.4 million to make corporate life more social and disrupt HR
HelloFresh raises $88 million as German company looks toward possible IPO
China’s Yeahmobi raises $100 million to expand mobile ad network
Secondary market for shares in pre-IPO unicorns is booming
Mac Pro is ‘very likely dead’, developer Marco Arment says
Democrats are 3 times more likely to unfriend you on social media, survey says
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Yahoo killed Radar, its chatbot-like mobile travel assistant
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Netmarble acquires Kabam’s top studio in Vancouver, will launch Transformers in Q2
