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Zuckerberg to testify in $2 billion lawsuit that claims Oculus used stolen technology
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 13:34
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify in court on Tuesday, January 17 for a potentially explosive lawsuit that claims the Oculus VR startup he acquired for $2 billion was based on stolen technology. The more than two...
The impact of machine learning on the customer experience
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 05:03
GUEST: A true genius in his own right, a whole new generation came to know Alan Turing, played brilliantly by Benedict Cumberbatch, in the movie on his life and impact on ending WWII, The Imitation Game. Turing predicted...
Here's a closer look at Nintendo Switch's game cards
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 23:58
Video game tapes have shrunk a bit over the past 30 years. To save the battery life in its upcoming Switch console, Nintendo is not using spinning discs like Blu-rays. Instead, the hybrid handheld/home system will use a ...
China cites national security as it bans Pokémon Go and other AR games
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 22:10
China as a nation has a checkered past with the video game industry. For example, for almost a decade and a half, home video game consoles themselves were banned in the country, but due to cultural differences, internet ...
Before you start a company, answer these questions
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 21:08
GUEST: A few months ago, a friend called me excitedly to share a startup idea. He was an investor's dream entrepreneur: engineering undergrad with an MBA from MIT, worked at Google, and literally wrote a book on the core...
7 highly connected cars you will drive in the future
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 20:25
Cars that drive you home on their own. Cars that connect to other cars and also to the stoplight in front of you. Cars that are much safer and reduce accidents. This is what we can expect in the next few years as AI and ...
6 Assumptions You Shouldn't Make - And 1 You Always Should
Forbes - 15 Jan 2017 20:21
Some of the biggest problems in business communication, and even in our personal lives, happen because we assume that we are being clear. We're not. At least, not to everyone.
The No. 1 Personality Trait Obama And Trump Supporters Have In Common
Forbes - 15 Jan 2017 19:48
Barack Obama's farewell speech and Donald Trump's press conference reveal not only how different they are, but their supporters as well. Americans can agree on one thing: we can't agree on anything. Cartoon by Joe Heller...
5 Trump policies that could change the game for entrepreneurs and VCs
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 19:05
GUEST: While the details of the Trump administration's economic policies are still to be determined, the President-elect's comments on the campaign trail indicate he is ready to shake up the status quo. Recent interviews...
The Tech Entrepreneur Who's Making Our Kitchens Smarter
Forbes - 15 Jan 2017 18:12
The technology behind smarter kitchens that fight the war on food waste
Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, And The Myth Of NFL Competitive Balance
Forbes - 15 Jan 2017 16:30
When the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packerskickoff this afternoon in their NFC Divisional Championship Game, NFL fans will be treated to a game between two of the league's most storied football franchises. Nevertheless...
Hearthstone's Jade Golem mechanic used to be a lot different
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 16:04
Designing new cards for digital card brawler like Hearthstone isn’t easy, and changes are bound to happen before the final release. It turns out that the whole Jade Golem idea used to look a lot different. In its final...
How I Prepared For The Most Critical Pitch In My Company's History
Forbes - 15 Jan 2017 16:00
Over the years, I have pitched my companies more times than I can count. Every week I am pitching someone. It is a basic exercise for start-ups. If you're not pitching, you're not going to move forward. It's that simple....
The first self-driving bus on U.S. public streets is carrying passengers in Las Vegas
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 09:56
A small autonomous bus called an Arma is running a short route along Las Vegas' Fremont Street, marking, according to transit operator Keolis, the first time a self-driving bus has moved passengers on an American public ...
RIP, Guerrilla Cambridge: Remembering the shuttering studio that made Rigs for PSVR
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 08:14
The VR community was hit with quite a shock yesterday. Guerrilla Cambridge, the Sony-owned developer behind PlayStation VR multiplayer first-person shooter Rigs: Mechanized Combat League, was confirmed to be closing just...
Technology fails to save Ringling Bros. circus
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 07:01
After 146 years, the Greatest Show on Earth is closing. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus told the Associated Press that the show will shut for good in May. The American icon tried to revive its fortunes with mod...
Hearthstone's Hunter class was was once in a different Mean Streets gang
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 04:04
The Hunters weren’t always Grimy Goons. The newest expansion for Blizzard’s digital card game behemoth Hearthstone, December’s Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, introduced the idea of tri-class gangs. Three of the game’...
Why IoT needs AI
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 03:00
GUEST: At one of my recent talks in New York about AI in the supply chain, one of the key questions that came up was 'are you talking about robots?' You see, AI has been romanticized to this abstract term that conjures i...
Otoy's adds lightfield baking and other tools to its Unity integration
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 02:41
The road to photorealistic VR is long, but Otoy is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version of Unity. The company announced last month that its Octane Renderer would be coming to...
505 Games unveils original Steam game Quarantine
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 01:18
During all the fuss about the Nintendo Switch yesterday, 505 Games announced a new game called Quarantine. It wasn’t the best timing, but I thought the new original title was worth a second look. Quarantine is about wa...
Why 2017 will be the year of enterprise bots
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 00:33
GUEST: Millennials love to chat. Their personal lives rotate around messaging and instant gratification. From getting their pals' views on a new t-shirt they are thinking of buying to sharing their new year resolutions p...
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition is more time behind the same ol' wheel
Venture Beat - 15 Jan 2017 00:02
PREVIEW: Mario Kart 8 is back for another race around the track. By reviving the Wii U era game with minimum additions, it seems Nintendo thinks that it was the Wii U console — not its software — that caused the syst...