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Amazon has released its own free and open-source game engine

Last year, Kotaku reported that Amazon brought Crytek back from the brink of death in a $50 to $70 million licensing deal involving Crytek proprietary CryEngine technology. As interesting and surprising as the report...

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Elon Musk has an idea for an electric plane that takes off vertically

There's just no stopping Elon Musk, is there? While answering questions at the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod competition earlier this week, Musk talked about his idea for an electric plane...

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Elon Musk wants to have humans on Mars within a decade

Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious, especially when it comes to the future of space. At a startup festival in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the SpaceX CEO said that he'll...

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Lyft's partnership with Waze could give it an edge over Uber

Google hasn't done much with Waze since it acquired the crowd-sourced navigation app back in 2013, but it looks like that's about to change. On Tuesday, Waze announced on its official...

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Snapchat may support audio and video calling in the future

Snapchat may be popular, but the company is struggling to make money through advertisements. It's been searching for a new source of revenue for months, including additional photo lenses and sponsored photo...

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WhatsApp might start sharing your information with Facebook

It was only a matter of time before WhatsApp started sharing user information with Facebook, despite how much the company tried to assure us that this would never happen when...

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Facebook's new in-app browser might give Chrome a run for its money

The people in charge of Facebook's mobile services seem to have this mindset where, if the user has closed out the app and moved on to something else, the they've...

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This app could completely replace checkouts at supermarkets

Whether it's to avoid long checkout lines, or just avoid interacting with another human being, many people prefer to use the self-checkout counter when they go shopping, but the machines there...

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Google Maps can predict where you want to go before you tell it

There are times when Google genuinely creeps me out because of how good it is at predicting what I want, and it's about to get a hell of a lot creepier. I...

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Mihaibao is helping Western companies reach Chinese consumers

Western companies have always found it difficult to tap into China's vast consumer base, but many of them keep trying because of how lucrative the Chinese market is. The problem...

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