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What Could Lift Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, And Litecoin Prices Back Towards New Highs
Forbes - 17 Feb 2018 02:49
Three bullish scenarios for Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, and Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies.
How This Millennial Is Feeding Puerto Rico And Saving The World
Forbes - 17 Feb 2018 04:05
She was shot in the back with a grenade launcher at Standing Rock. She's walked the runways at New York's Fashion Week, and she ran for Congress in Northern California, when she was only 24 years old. And for the last fi...
Rainbow Six Siege Operation Chimera hands-on -- 25 million players get new ways to die
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 23:30
Ubisoft is taking the wraps off of its Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege expansion, dubbed Operation Chimera. That could very well get the game’s 25 million fans re-engaged with the 5-versus-5 tactical shooter multiplay...
Investing in cryptocurrencies? Understand how to diversify your portfolio
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 20:25
GUEST: Most investors will tell you about the importance of a well-diversified portfolio and how you should never go all in on any single asset. This is good advice for most of us and makes even more sense in the unregul...
OrbusVR shows the promise of MMOs in VR
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 19:03
As someone that grew up playing MMOs like EverQuest, Minions of Mirth (an obscure indie one), Runescape, Guild Wars, and more, a high-quality VR MMO is one of my ultimate dream games. Anime like .hack and Sword Art Onlin...
How Machinima plotted its strategic rebranding across platforms
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 18:02
Warner Bros.’s digital video site Machinima rebranded this week as it makes a bigger push to expand beyond its YouTube roots to all the new platforms where gamers celebrate their culture. Since Warner Bros. bought Mach...
Chris Messina: Alexa leads the 'god bot' wars because Amazon gets the most interest from developers
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 17:15
A little over two years ago, before Facebook Messenger or iMessage opened to third-party bots, and before the arrival of Google Assistant, conversational AI champion Chris Messina helped coin the term “conversational c...
Bigscreen's new update adds support for 12 players
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 13:34
It's time for another Bigscreen update, and this latest edition makes the social VR app even, well, bigger. The Big Room Update, as it's called, includes some key new features. Perhaps the best addition is support for up...
How a love for Minecraft can blossom into a love for reading
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 03:30
GUEST: Millions of kids around the world play Minecraft, and it didn't take long for adults to notice something: It has educational value. With Microsoft's MinecraftEdu leading the way, more schools are using Minecraft i...
GamesBeat Decides 71: That Pavlovian Stuff
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 02:25
On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Mike Minotti and Jeffrey Grubb talk about some recent releases and some that are not quite as recent. The duo also examine the pending loot-box regulation in Hawaii. Here...
AI Weekly: Get ready for AI chips everywhere
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 02:21
Google, ARM, and Amazon were all in the news this week for their work on custom chips for AI applications. Here's why we're only going to see more of them in the future.
Brazil's Independent Games Festival is ready for your cool games
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 01:25
Brazil’s Independent Games (BIG) Festival is now taking submissions for its sixth annual event. It celebrates indie games from Latin America and abroad, and this year will be held in both São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro ...
Nippon Marathon parodies Japanese game shows with its wacky foot racing
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2018 00:01
Nippon Marathon has entered Early Access on Steam, and the full game will be coming out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC later this year. Nippon Marathon has one to four players racing through Japan in ridicul...