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Tesla lowers Model X price to $79,500
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2017 04:41
(Reuters) — Tesla Inc on Friday lowered the base price of its Model X SUV to $79,500 and said improving margins were behind the move, which came as the automaker is ramping up production of its new lower-priced Model 3...
Social-good innovators bet on blockchains to solve big problems
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2017 23:33
GUEST: With Bitcoin shrugging off a "civil war" to surge almost 400 percent in 12 months while giant cryptocurrency crowd-sales are creating instant millionaires almost daily, it's tempting to think that blockchain techn...
The Tech Industry Is Getting Very People and Culture Focused, Here's Why
Forbes - 5 Aug 2017 21:35
Tech businesses of all stripes are awakening to this notion: "Culture is a business issue, not merely an HR issue." Culture directly impact things like how the business performs, the quality of customer service, how enga...
Check Out These 10 Creative Studios That Appeal to Millennials
Forbes - 5 Aug 2017 19:57
In the past, brands spent more time pushing out their own messages and promoting themselves to anyone they could reach. Their switch from "Me Marketing" to "You Marketing" is focused on reaching their target audiences, e...
Investors bet big on AI for health diagnostics
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2017 19:25
GUEST: We’re seeing a new wave of venture investments in healthtech companies — especially those with strong artifical intelligence and machine learning components. Led by some of the world's largest biopharma compan...
Carnegie Mellon's ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2017 18:10
Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama, started the graduate school th...
HP Windows headset dev kit hands-on: the appeal of first-party VR
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2017 17:02
This week we got our hands-on the first development kit edition of the HP "Windows Mixed Reality" VR headset. Right off the bat let's clarify that verbiage. Microsoft is using the term "Mixed Reality" as an umbrella to e...
Life Is Strange prequel lets you decide how close teens should be
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2017 16:15
Life Is Strange sold more than 3 million copies because it had such appealing portraits of trouble teens. And developer Deck Nine is taking the teen angst narrative and running with it in the upcoming prequel Life Is Str...
6 Ways To Change Your Mindset About Innovation Before The Marketplace Passes You By
Forbes - 5 Aug 2017 15:55
While organizations are in change management and transformation mode - are the leaders and employees of those same companies transforming themselves? Stop fooling yourself. You don't have all the answers.
This Siggraph project lets you feel environmental effects in VR
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2017 12:03
You can open a portal to a new environment just like in the movie Doctor Strange and feel the environmental effects on the other side. Researchers from National Taiwan University and Tamkang University are presenting a p...
Positive Power of Negative Preparation
Forbes - 5 Aug 2017 04:08
What's your initial reaction when you encounter a set-back? The Pros spend time in negative preparation because they know issues and set-backs will arise, it's how you handle them that makes all the difference.
World War Doh wins Casual Connect USA's best in show
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2017 00:07
The Casual Connect USA conference in Seattle earlier this week hosted the 19th Indie Prize Awards. It honored nine games from smaller studios across the world, including the U.S., China, Brazil, and Colombia, with World ...