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No Holding Back - Why Street Team's Founder Uses Hypnotherapy to Effect Personal Change
Forbes - 22 May 2017 11:37
UK entrepreneur and founder of Street Team, Callum Negus-Fancey has used hypnotherapy to make him a better manager and encourages staff to do the same. It's a way, he says, of overcoming fear based value
CRISIS GO Is Keeping Classrooms Safer
Nibletz - 22 May 2017 09:18
Missouri Startup CRISIS GO Is Keeping Students Safer Since the words “active shooter” and “lock down” have become a part of the grade school student’s vocabulary, startups have been working on how to make schoo...
How open source software will drive the future of auto innovations
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 23:10
GUEST: Automotive companies are shifting from bending metal to bending bits. Soon they will be offering software and services to complement their manufactured metal. As these companies become software-driven, open source...
Unpacking Impact Investing -- An Emerging Asset Class
Forbes - 22 May 2017 22:33
Impact investments are investments made with the intention of generating measurable social, sustainable, and/or environmental impact. Participants hold the deep belief that investment can also make a powerful and measura...
Rockstar pushes Red Dead Redemption 2 to spring 2018
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 22:29
Rockstar Games announced that it has delayed the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 until the spring of 2018. Red Dead Redemption 2 will launch first on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It’s is one of the most anticipated ...
9 ways AI isn't going to be like Hollywood
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 21:20
GUEST: When Hollywood isn’t doing comic book franchises, it’s doing AI. Why? Because AI gives us a window into our own souls by challenging us to consider what it means to be human, what it means to think, and what o...
Meet Stephanie Chan, GamesBeat's new general assignment reporter
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 21:05
GamesBeat is excited to announce that Stephanie Chan starts today as our new general assignment reporter. She’ll be assuming the duties of Jeff Grubb, who’s now moving over full-time to PC Gaming coverage. Stephanie ...
Sarah Michelle Gellar And Her Co-Founders Are Slaying The Baking Industry With Foodstirs
Forbes - 22 May 2017 20:57
An organic baking company gets traction with its easy-to-make Instagram-worthy treats.
Clash of Clans' Builder Base update is its biggest new content dump of 2017
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 20:45
Developer Supercell expands the battlefield in the biggest Clash of Clans update of 2017, featuring an all-new 1-on-1 battle mode. Nearly five years after its initial launch, this mobile strategy game is still going stro...
Meet Rowan Kaiser, GamesBeat's PC Gaming guest post editor
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 20:30
GamesBeat is proud to announce the hiring of longtime role-playing and strategy game critic Rowan Kaiser as our new guest post editor for our PC Gaming Channel. In this role, Rowan will focus on accepting and soliciting ...
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds bug: Your gun isn't aiming where you think it is
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 20:04
A gun’s sight works because the barrel and any scoping mechanisms are all connected together as one singular, ridged structure … except in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Developer Bluehole has found a bug in its Ba...
Instagram poaches the manager of Spotify's best feature
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 20:04
ANALYSIS: Matthew Ogle, a product manager at Spotify who helped develop and oversee popular discovery features such as Discover Weekly, is leaving the company to join Instagram, Ogle said on Twitter Monday. The departure...
Overwatch's esports is getting a minor league
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 19:50
Overwatch is going to the farm. Blizzard announced Overwatch Contenders today, a development system for its planned Overwatch League. The Overwatch League is Blizzard’s esports organization for its hit team-based shoot...
Hasbro and Backflip settle with Peak on My Little Pony copycat suit
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 19:35
Hasbro and its Backflip mobile games division have settled a lawsuit that alleged the companies copied Peak Games‘ Toy Blast when they launched My Little Pony: Puzzle Party. In October, Istanbul-based Peak Games sued H...
How Hidden Path designed real-time strategy game Brass Tactics for VR
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 19:00
Mark Terrano cut his teeth as a game designer on real-time strategy (RTS) titles such as Age of Empires II. Now at Hidden Path Entertainment, he is using that experience to take RTS games into virtual reality. The compan...
Rainbow Six Siege documentary reveals the tactical shooter's esports scene
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 18:52
You hear a lot about Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in esports, but Ubisoft has a shooter of its own that has attracted pro gamers. The French publisher today released a short documentary on a recent Rain...
Ready At Dawn leader hopes multiplayer VR game Echo Arena will be an esport
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 18:30
Ready At Dawn Studios broke a lot of “rules” about virtual reality with its Lone Echo game and its multiplayer companion Echo Arena. For one, it’s a high movement game, where you are constantly going from one place...
Far Cry 5 will be set in Montana
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 18:21
Far Cry 5 will be set in a place called Hope County, Montana, as the open world shooter franchise comes to America for the first time, according to Ubisoft. Ubisoft has set a reveal event for May 26. There isn’t much t...
Millennials And Automation: A Departmental Examination
Forbes - 22 May 2017 18:18
Automation is the way of the future in the American workplace. But how is automation changing various departments, and are some departments more receptive to implementing automation than others?
Lone Echo's VR multiplayer Echo Arena is like playing Ultimate Frisbee in zero gravity
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 18:01
Ready At Dawn Studios looks like it has a real winner in the virtual reality game Lone Echo and its multiplayer companion Echo Arena. It is a wonderfully creative mix of experiences in VR, reminiscent of science fiction ...
Real-time strategy game Brass Tactics places you in the middle of a VR battlefield
Venture Beat - 22 May 2017 18:00
PREVIEW: Brass Tactics is a real-time strategy game in virtual reality. Coming soon for the Oculus Rift and Touch, it makes you feel like you’re in the middle of a virtual tabletop game with castles and fantasy armies....
Nvidia And Waymo Grab Early Lead In First Lap Of Self-Driving Car Race
Forbes - 22 May 2017 17:40
Both companies are locking in key partnerships, but the Intel-Mobileye-BMW-Delphi bloc looks formidable and other competitors are moving fast.