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Insects are revealing how AI can work in society
Venture Beat - 6 Sep 2017 01:10
GUEST: What's the secret to unlocking artificial intelligence (AI) and making it ubiquitous in our everyday lives? The answer may lie with the most abundant animals on earth — insects. The behavioral adaptations of ins...
Turtle Beach Stealth 700 headset can turn on your Xbox One
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 23:47
Turtle Beach announced its Stealth 700 wireless headset for Xbox One consoles today. The headset is the first to use Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless technology to connect directly to the console, just as a wireless controlle...
Lenovo settles with FTC, will pay $3.5 million for preinstalling adware on laptops
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 23:16
(Reuters) — Lenovo Inc, a major laptop maker, has agreed to pay $3.5 million and make changes in how it sells laptops in order to settle allegations it sold devices with pre-loaded software that compromised users’ se...
Minecraft Marketplace creators have made $1 million in 2 months
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 22:01
Since acquiring Minecraft in 2014, Microsoft has worked to turn the beloved brick-building phenomenon into its own platform, and those efforts have led to the company paying out $1 million in earnings to community member...
Hearthstone is nerfing Druid ... and some of its oldest powerhouse cards
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 21:05
Blizzard announced today that it is changing some of Druid’s cards as a response to the class dominating its digital card game Hearthstone since the release of the Knights of the Frozen Throne Expansion last month. But...
Dual-screen ZTE Axon Multy unfolds into a 6.8-inch slab
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 20:47
EXCLUSIVE: While the world waits on a promised generation of devices with foldable screens like the oft-delayed Project Valley from Samsung, AT&T and ZTE have teamed up to offer a facsimile of their anticipated functiona...
Ubisoft's new Saguenay studio is now its third dev shop in Quebec
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 20:36
Ubisoft announced today that it is opening a new studio Saquenay, Quebec, which will open in 2018. It will focus on online services and technologies. The publisher is planing to invest $135 million in the office by 2027,...
YouTube Live gets ultra-low latency option, direct streaming on iOS, and new moderation tools
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 20:00
A week after its logo refresh and latest redesign, YouTube is now updating its livestreaming service. YouTube Live is getting the ability to live stream in real time with very little latency, the ability to live stream d...
Carvana Chairman and CEO Ernie Garcia to Keynote 2017 Venture Atlanta Conference
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 19:25
PRESS RELEASE: What does multi-million-dollar short-term growth, a leading e-commerce platform and a successful footprint in Atlanta all have in common? Find out from Ernie Garcia, chairman and CEO of Carvana, who will d...
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has sold 10 million copies in 6 months
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 19:12
Bluehole Studio announced today that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has hit the 10 million sold milestone. The Battle Royale multiplayer shooter has been available for PC in Early Access since March. That is a lot of ga...
EDUCAUSE Preview: When You Need A Laptop, LaptopsAnytime
Nibletz - 5 Sep 2017 19:00
LaptopsAnytime Is The Innovative Solution To Public Laptop Deployment In 2008 Dallas based entrepreneurs Matthew Buscher and Jonathan Ruttenberg set out to give back to the community by making it easy and convenient to �...
5 ways tech is making finance simpler for consumers
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 18:50
SPONSORED: Presented by Wells Fargo It goes without saying that technology is increasingly woven into our daily lives, and the over-abundance of touch points is causing consumers' digital lives to become progressively mo...
Fair Introduces a New Way to Shop, Get Approved and Pay for a Car All on Your Phone
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 18:25
PRESS RELEASE: Fair-a first-of-its-kind app that allows customers to shop, get approved and pay for a car all on a phone-launched today. Fair's innovative offering allows customers to shop for a car they want and can aff...
Nasdaq to acquire investment data and analytics company eVestment for $705 million
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 18:02
Nasdaq has announced plans to acquire eVestment, a data and analytics platform for the investment industry, in a $705 million deal. The transaction will be funded through a mixture of cash and debt. Founded out of Georgi...
EDUCAUSE Preview: Motimatic, Motivation That Works For College Students
Nibletz - 5 Sep 2017 17:40
Motimatic Is An Easy And Effective Way To Motivate Students We are led to believe that motivating and communicating with millennial and post millennial students can be tricky. One of the keys to motivating and communicat...
Protembis Announces Successful First-in-Human Use of Its ProtEmbo® Cerebral Protection System in European Trial
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 17:25
PRESS RELEASE: Protembis GmbH, a privately held medical device company, announced today the first clinical applications of its ProtEmbo® Cerebral Protection System to complement a transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...
DC Startups Come Together For DC Startup Week
Nibletz - 5 Sep 2017 17:10
DC Startup Week Kicks Off Monday DC startups, innovators and entrepreneurs are coming together next week across the nation’s capital for DC Startup Week. DC Startup Week is part of Techstar’s national Startup Week ca...
GamesBeat 2017 agenda features talks about gaming's past and its future
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 17:05
Here’s the updated preliminary agenda for our GamesBeat 2017 event coming on October 5-6 at Fort Mason in San Francisco, California. The event is GamesBeat 2017: The Time Machine. It’s full of speakers who can tell y...
Teaching Every Teacher to Teach Reading
Nibletz - 5 Sep 2017 16:30
A Canadian school's approach to supporting literacy is fueled by a combination of online and in-person professional development. By Cindy Young The ability to read, and read well, is a skill that follows students for the...
MapR Stakes its Claim as a Leader in the Big Data Market
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 16:25
PRESS RELEASE: MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the Converged Data Platform that fully integrates analytics with operational processes in real time, today announced it completed another outstanding quarter, as the co...
European VC firm OneRagtime invites startups to pitch through Instagram
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 16:25
A new European investment fund is turning to social media to find a batch of undiscovered entrepreneurs. Based in Paris, OneRagtime launched last year as a European venture firm that was run by a combination of millennia...
IT's Increasing Role In Student Success
Nibletz - 5 Sep 2017 15:50
Planning for Student Success By: Meg Robinson Higher ed institutions continuously strive to help students succeed, but unfortunately, the path to student success is rarely simple. Only four in ten students (39%) actually...