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Google Assistant picks 'Arrival' for Best Picture Oscar, Alexa likes 'La La Land'
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 15:25
The 89th annual Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday, and Alexa and Google Assistant have opinions about who will win Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress. The Oscars ceremony is Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Pacific. Red carpe...
Apple extending Seattle footprint with new offices dedicated to AI and machine learning
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 04:25
Apple real estate news continues to build up this week. After revealing the name of its soon-to-be-opened new headquarters in Silicon Valley, the iPhone maker is growing its footprint and workforce in Seattle--not far fr...
TCL debuts BlackBerry KeyOne with hardware keyboard and Android Nougat for $549
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 23:20
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Chinese electronics company TCL debuted the BlackBerry KeyOne. For those keeping track, this is the phone previously known as codename Mercury, as first revealed by VentureBea...
5 surprising changes to the Zelda formula in Breath of the Wild
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 23:09
Fans have asked Nintendo to change the fundamental structure of its Zelda games for a long time now, but the publisher has finally listened. I’ve spent about a dozen hours with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, ...
How blockchains could save us from another Flint-like contamination crisis
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 22:10
GUEST: After the city of Flint, Michigan, temporarily switched water sources in 2014, residents began to develop unusual medical conditions. The city later learned the water was contaminated with high levels of lead and ...
Valve's Steam Audio will bring better sound to games and VR
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 21:05
Valve today released a new tool called Steam Audio that represents the fruit of its purchase of Impulsonic in January. The tech promises sound which very realistically responds to a virtual environment and would serve as...
How To Protect Your Intellectual Property The Right Way
Forbes - 25 Feb 2017 20:56
Why protecting your intellectual property is critical for success, and why so many small business owners don't do it.
Unorthodox Ways to Grow Your Income This Year
Forbes - 25 Feb 2017 20:55
The key is diversifying and never keeping all your financial eggs in one basket.
Why are there no unicorns in AgTech?
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 20:25
GUEST: Major changes are coming to the ag and food sector. The market demands it. 7.5 billion people need to eat, after all. We are seeing two core areas of innovation in the ag sector: 1. Technology is changing the way ...
How GameStop is faring as a video game publisher
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 19:10
GameStop has more than 7,000 retail stores for selling games, but it has also diversified into publishing games under its GameTrust label. Instead of competing head-on with game publishers, the company is going after gam...
What to expect from the app market this year
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 18:02
GUEST: In 2016, mobile app store downloads reached over 90 billion, while total time spent in apps worldwide increased to nearly 900 billion hours. From a business perspective, the app economy proved to be more lucrative...
Teams Only Grow When They Evolve Together
Forbes - 25 Feb 2017 17:36
Throw the old mindset out when it comes to your teams: Great teams know how to evolve together by allowing everyone to find their distinction and best apply it to the organization they are serving.
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's new roller coaster uses VR
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 17:10
I'm scared of roller coasters. Not heights, not speed, not intricate examples of mechanical engineering: roller coasters. I am specifically, and dreadfully, terrified or riding roller coasters. This is the story of me ri...
Shedding Soviet history, Estonia aims to be world's most pro-tech nation
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 16:01
Karoli Hindriks is old enough to remember when the last Soviet tanks and soldiers filed out of Estonia in 1991, not long after the country declared its independence from the USSR. The joyful celebration that followed dec...
Microsoft launches facility to fight cybercrime in Latin America
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 13:29
Microsoft has announced a new initiative aimed at selling its cybersecurity smarts to public sector bodies across Latin America. The Cybersecurity Engagement Center, located in Mexico, represents part of a growing push b...
These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 09:44
This week, Tech.eu tracked 14 technology M&A transactions and 65 tech funding deals totaling €200 million (about $211 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items...
FCC chair to block stricter consumer data privacy protections
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 06:58
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will block some Obama administration rules that subject broadband providers to stricter scrutiny than websites, a spokesman said on Friday, in a victory for intern...
I Went To Jail On Riker's Island And You Should Too
Forbes - 25 Feb 2017 06:55
Christina Wallace goes inside the jail on Riker's Island for a day of volunteering with Defy Ventures, a nonprofit with an entrepreneurship, employment, and character development training program for incarcerated men and...
The Trump effect: The U.S. is heading for a tech brain drain
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 01:49
GUEST: This time last year, my headhunting firm had zero inquiries on opportunities outside of the US that were due to political considerations. But now I'm getting at least 10 messages a week from senior tech leaders se...
The state of your self-driving car
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 01:04
Last year, the car industry was abuzz about the move towards autonomous vehicles, largely spurred by decisions made by technology companies such as Google, Tesla, and Uber. Since then, a few car makers have entered the s...
Common misconceptions brand executives have about AI
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2017 00:10
GUEST: Artificial intelligence is no longer the sole domain of tech companies like Google, Facebook, IBM, and Amazon. Recognizing the potential of exponential technologies like AI and bots, creative agencies like Ogilvy ...