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Flex Logix Technologies raises $5 million to make chip design more flexible
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 17:45
The trend in semiconductor startups is to make chip design easier and more customizable. That’s what startup Flex Logix Technologies is doing, and it’s why the company was able to raise $5 million in funding today. M...
What we know -- and need to know -- about chatbots
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 23:10
GUEST: It has been a dream of science fiction authors since the advent of computers: hands-free interfaces that can respond to our every whim — without the need to strike a single key. That future is now closer than ev...
When Talent Is Important: Five Next Practices
Forbes - 8 May 2017 23:05
How many times have you heard CEOs and HR executives say that talent is their organization's most important asset? I have heard it many times, and I usually follow up by asking how that translates into the way they manag...
3 companies that want to help you commute in a flying car
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 21:10
GUEST: Recently, Kitty Hawk (backed by Google’s Larry Page) grabbed attention for showcasing its version of a flying car, which requires no pilot license. In a slick video, the prototype vehicle is seen gliding through...
Call of Duty: Black Ops III's Zombies Chronicles won't hit PC until June
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 21:05
Sony’s Call of Duty deal is still in place, and this means that the Treyarch studio’s planned remastering of many of its classic Zombies mode maps will take a bit longer to hit the other platforms. Zombies Chronicles...
Get ready for Cortana-powered Amazon Echo clones
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 20:13
Harman Kardon has released additional details about its Invoke smart speaker with Cortana inside, marking Microsoft’s first venture into smart speakers to compete with the likes of Amazon Echo and Google Home. First te...
Food delivery startup Maple shuts down and sells to Deliveroo after raising $29 million
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 20:00
Another food delivery startup dies. Manhattan-based Maple, a startup that prepared and delivered meals without the help of restaurants, is shutting down after launching nearly two years ago and raising $29 million from T...
2 secrets to eliminating involuntary subscriber churn (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 20:00
VB LIVE: Find out how to optimize subscriber acquisition and accelerate your business growth when you join this interactive VB Live event to find out — plus tap into the latest research and benchmarks on key subscriber...
Nexon's Project D mobile RPG is in the works from South Korea's Weredsoft
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 19:30
Nexon announced that it is partnering with South Korean mobile game developer Weredsoft on a fantasy role-playing game dubbed Project D. The Tokyo-based Nexon has acquired global publishing rights for Project D, which wi...
The Power Of Collaboration: Founders & Influencers Share Their Stories
Forbes - 8 May 2017 18:51
600 attendees joined established influencers and founders for a day-long conference in NYC. Some of them shared their insights with Forbes.
Sega is teasing Platinum's masterpiece shooter Vanquish again
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 18:50
Sega is probably going to release the cult shooter Vanquish on PC. It’s already done that with Platinum’s Bayonetta, and now the company has once again teased Vanquish, another masterwork from the studio. Without any...
In Prey, water is life
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 18:30
In most games, you are out of luck if you have been hurt and don’t have enough medkits to heal your character. But in Prey, you can game the system instead. Bethesda’s Prey debuted last Friday on the PC and consoles ...
How Mark Cerny used fan feedback when designing Knack 2
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 18:15
When Knack debuted as a launch title for the PlayStation 4 in 2013, the critics and fans weren’t kind. The game scored 54 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic, with reviewers citing a convoluted story, uninspired...
Mark Cerny's Knack 2 has big gameplay improvements
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 18:00
PREVIEW: When I stepped into a room at Sony’s U.S. game headquarters in San Mateo, California, Mark Cerny put a game controller in my hands to show me Knack 2. He wanted the game to speak for itself in the first real p...
Smart-Earbud Startup Doppler Labs Is Preparing For Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids
Forbes - 8 May 2017 18:00
How smart-earbud startup Doppler Labs' "Avengers" are preparing for over-the-counter hearing aids.
Injustice 2 is getting a $600,000 championship series
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 17:50
Beating the crap out of Superman and Batman could make you some money. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced the Injustice 2 Championship Series. The DC fighting game is coming out for PlayStation 4 and ...
Why The Future Belongs to Lifestyle Influencers and Brands
Forbes - 8 May 2017 17:44
Life used to be all about work, work, work. But things are changing. While work isn't going away, it's shackles on us have loosened, and we now prioritize and make time for things that provide other types of fulfillment.
How to protest the FCC's plan to dismantle Net Neutrality
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 17:39
President Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, is moving forward with his plan to destroy Obama-era Net Neutrality regulations. But before the FCC stops regulating internet providers as it does other public utilities — un...
Stop Destroying Your 'Leaders' By Making Them 'Managers'
Forbes - 8 May 2017 17:31
There is mass confusion over the meaning of the words 'leader' and 'manager' because the best authors who write about it, the famous speakers who speak on it, and the best business schools that teach it are confused to s...
How A Millennial Beat The Odds And Is Helping Others Recover From Eating Disorders
Forbes - 8 May 2017 17:30
Two 15-year-old girls met while in treatment for anorexia. They saw the horrible effects of insufficient insurance coverage for eating disorder treatment. They know that recovery is hard and here's what they're doing to ...
Transport app Citymapper trials its own smart bus and transport service in London
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 17:13
Popular city transport app Citymapper has revealed an ambitious plan to reinvent the humble bus, creating vehicles fit for the smart city era. Citymapper, if you didn’t know, is a mobile app that rose to prominence in ...
My favorite battle in Horizon Zero Dawn
Venture Beat - 8 May 2017 16:30
I finally finished Guerrilla Games’ big hit Horizon Zero Dawn on the Sony PlayStation 4. But “finished” is a relative term. While I completed the main campaign of the single-player game, I am only 32 percent done w...