From CNET: Amazon on Friday announced its first-ever voice shopping weekend. The online retailer is offering discounts to Prime customers who order through Alexa on Amazon's Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, Fire HD tablet and Fire TV. The event starts today and runs through November 21.

Amazon will...

From InfoWorld: Intel is taking a new direction in chip development as it looks to the future of artificial intelligence, with the company betting the technology will pervade applications and web services.

The company on Thursday said it is developing new chips that will handle AI workloads, which...

From CNET: Following the addition of Android TV last month, Sony has announced that its PlayStation Vue service is now available on the fourth generation Apple TV.

People will be able to use Apple TV's Siri Remote to search and the touch-pad to navigate. Programming now available via Vue includes...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft’s Connect developer conference kicked off Wednesday with some expected news: The next versions of the Visual Studio IDE have arrived on Windows and Mac. (Yep, you read that right.)

After a set of leaks from MSDN Magazine on Monday, the company officially confirmed...

From CNET: Mozilla just escalated an arms race with advertisers, releasing a new browser for iPhone and iPad users called Firefox Focus that blocks ads from tracking your activities on the web.

When you visit websites, many advertisers store text files on your PC or phone that are designed to show...

From PC World: Facebook has acquired a facial image analysis firm FacioMetrics as it tries to give users new features to add special effects to photos and videos.

The technology developed by the startup also includes capabilities for face tracking and recognizing emotions, which could potentially...

From CNET: When it comes to the processor that powers your phone, size matters. And Qualcomm and Samsung are going smaller than ever.

The two companies on Thursday showed off the Snapdragon 835 chip, the first mobile processor to lean on a 10-nanometer manufacturing technique from Samsung, which...

From InfoWorld: First came Amazon, offering GPU-powered instances in its cloud back in 2010. Then, more recently, Microsoft Azure and IBM Softlayer each provided their versions of the same, albeit with different pricing structures and instance types.

Starting next year, Google will offer GPU...

From CNET: Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger will all be under the umbrella of a single app soon. With businesses in mind, Facebook is integrating all three into its Pages Manager mobile app in the coming weeks, letting manage messages and comments of all three platforms from one page.

Pages...

From PC World: The company behind the Snapchat messaging app has reportedly filed papers for an initial public offering that could value it at up to US$25 billion, according to news reports.

Snapchat changed its name to Snap in September to reflect the company’s growing interest in new markets...