A profile has been popping on Tinder this week for users in Austin. Many of the attendees of the SXSW festival in Austin came across an attractive 25-year-old woman named Ava on the dating app and, after a brief but interesting conversation, it was revealed that the person was actually an AI. The pr
We’ve already established that Valve’s highly-anticipated Steam Machines will finally be hitting the market this November, but what will the offerings look like? The best part about Steam Machines is that, like all gaming PCs and unlike consoles, the offerings are incredibly diverse in b
Sony’s most recent virtual reality headset prototype is hardly a prototype at all. While the company is still making a few improvements before the final release, it could easily release the product in its current form. The biggest problem, as with all virtual reality gaming headsets at the mom
Oculus Rift may have started off as a gaming-centric virtual reality headset but Facebook’s acquisition of the headset’s creators has opened it up to even more possibilities. One of these possibilities could be virtual shopping as a recent poll has shown that two thirds of all consumers
PC gaming has had to overcome some difficulties over the past few years but it has now reached a point where around 75% of game developers say that the PC platform is “very important” for the future of the industry. In fact, many developers said that PC will be the most important platform for the ne
Watching viral videos is now easier than ever thanks to Digg TV, a new mode for the news aggregation service that allows you to create a playlist of Digg videos and watch them back-to-back. Discovery is one of the main focuses of this new mode, which is still in beta, and the Explore feature makes i
We’re just a few days away from this year’s Mobile World Congress, the most important mobile event in the world, and VentureBeat has put together a list of the rends we should expect to see at the conference in Barcelona. Such things as the rise of mobile payments and the coming of 5G ne
For those of you who aren’t aware, Buzzfeed is a ridiculously popular Internet media company that reports on a variety of topics and is known for its use of viral content. Now the website wants to begin a serious expansion into the world of tech news by building a team of Silicon Valley report
Am important but often times overlooked part of Amazon Web Services known as Spot Instances allows you to name your price for using pieces of servers in Amazon’s cloud. A startup by the name of ClusterK has found a way to utilize these instances in away that makes it so that you can run comple
Founded back in 2009, Dutch file-sharing startup WeTransfer has raised $25 million in funding to help expand its services across the rest of Europe as well as the United States. Through the web or a dedicated mobile app, WeTransfer allows users to share large files in a way that’s better and e
It’s been four years since WeChat launched and to celebrate, Tencent Tech has released a collection of slides named “WeChat’s Impact: Inaugural Report on WeChat Platform Data” that shows some crazy statistics about the app’s popularity. The data, which was taken from extensive surveys th
Nintendo hasn’t exactly embraced the world of Let’s Plays and video game streaming. In fact, the Japanese company has actively tried to shut down anyone who releases gameplay footage of its games and has expressed confusion as to why anyone would want to stream games. However, due to the