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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

Here are the 5 most likely U.S. IPO candidates for 2017

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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Why a tax cut for tech companies to bring home overseas cash won’t have much economic impact

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

5 bots to try this week: GanePay, INSDRbot, Trivia Blast, DIY Bot, and Ainstein

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
