Video calls and Internet surfing in Minecraft are now possible with a Verizon cell phone that functions inside the game. Just don't expect high-def. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

The Minecraft community continues to produce cool mods and inventions, and this one is probably the neatest one yet. Verizon, virtual architects Blockworks, and ad agency Wieden+Kennedy have created a ...

Microsoft expands its vision of using the blocky video game in classrooms with the acquisition of a learning tool called MinecraftEdu. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...

Here’s something very cool, a set of wooden blocks that play music, control the volume, and switch tracks on your iPod or stereo. The Music Blocks feature a central control block, which is the base ...

When animation director Rich Moore was growing up in Oxnard, he spent so much time in video arcades that his parents worried that their young son was wasting his time. “They would always tell me that ...

Blocky video calls could one day be a thing of the past – thanks to an AI that compresses images by simply throwing out large chunks of them, and making up what should be there instead. Raw digital ...