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How do you design an app for a parrot? Consider games that are “made to be licked,” a new study suggests.

Two years after the cryptocurrency market crashed, internet cafes for playing crypto-earning video games are opening and farmers have started harvesting virtual crops from the games for income.

The group will become the largest union at a video game company in the United States, while Microsoft pledged to stay neutral on the vote.

After an inquiry by European regulators, Epic Games said Apple would allow it to access the software tools necessary to develop a game store.

Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

The move tests the European Union’s new tech competition law, which was designed to allow competing app stores.

Microsoft, once again a juggernaut thanks to artificial intelligence, wants to be seen as an ethical employer. Is there a catch?

Profits are up and the economy is strong. But the tech industry faces two challenges — dealing with a frenetic work force expansion in the pandemic and building A.I.

Parents, movie buffs and office workers might all succumb to the novelty of Apple’s new ‘spatial computing’ device.

The reductions come three months after the tech giant completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Starting with Google Glass, all have been plagued with the same issues, even as Apple plunges into the market with its Vision Pro.

Billy Mitchell’s records will be listed in a “historical database” but not the leaderboard, ending a dispute familiar from the 2007 documentary “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.”

Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma, advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game that it froze. “I can’t feel my fingers,” he said afterward.