From PC World: If you were just getting used to the “Google Cast” name, it’s time to refamiliarize yourself with Chromecast.

Google has begun to move away from the ‘Google Cast’ brand for speakers, TVs, and other hardware that supports Google’s casting technology. Instead it’s now promoting the...

From CNET: While you still can't buy the much desired Nintendo Classic Edition, Nintendo has announced its deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The video game maker is offering discounts on game titles for the 3DS and the Wii U.

You can save up to 50 percent off 3DS titles like The Legend of...

From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services made a series of price cuts on Tuesday and simplified what customers pay for its storage products. The company's popular Simple Storage Service (S3) has had its six pricing tiers cut down to three, along with a corresponding price cut of roughly 16 percent to 25...

From CNET: Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT), first announced back in September, is the new system powering Google Translate, the platform that invalidates all those years of French classes. It's built on a neural network, a kind of computer system modeled on the human brain that can learn...

From PC World: Four years ago, Alicia Gibb was trying to unite a fragmented open-source hardware community to join together to create innovative products.

So was born the Open Source Hardware Association, which Gibb hoped would foster a community of hardware “hackers” sharing, tweaking, and...

From CNET: One of the biggest reasons a lot of people quit playing Pokemon Go was its tracking system. It was so bad that a host of third party trackers gained a lot of popularity, but Niantic Labs -- makers of Pokemon Go -- kept shutting down the trackers, leaving dedicated hunters crying for help...

From InfoWorld: The internet of things is so complex that some enterprises would rather turn to one vendor to determine the business case for an IoT deployment, design the system, roll it out, and operate it as a service.

At least that’s what IBM believes. The company’s combining several of its...

From CNET: Amazon may be getting ready to step up its game slightly.

The internet retailer has spoken in recent months with representatives from the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and the National Football League for the rights to carry live games, the Wall Street Journal...

From PC World: Microsoft is accelerating its efforts to make a quantum computer as it looks to a future of computing beyond today’s PCs and servers.

Microsoft has researched quantum computing for more than a decade. Now the company’s goal is to put the theory to work and create actual hardware and...

From CNET: Oracle said Monday it had agreed to acquire Dyn, the web services provider hit by a massive internet attack in October that left dozens of popular websites inaccessible for several hours.

The privately held New Hampshire-based company is one of the biggest internet management companies...