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Two Bullish Signs For Bitcoin
Forbes - 3 Mar 2018 03:58
Bitcoin is beginning to behave like the 'new gold,' shining in times of extreme uncertainty that take over Wall Street.
Game publishers should learn how to use data better in 2018
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 01:35
GUEST: Making a video game is a hard endeavor even in the best of circumstances. Developers have to anticipate an audience’s desires years in advance, determine the best way to monetize their creation, and execute on a...
AI Weekly: Amazon's Ring acquisition is about letting a giant through your front door
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 01:12
This week Amazon acquired smart home company Ring for a reported $1 billion. This comes after a mid-2016 attempt by Amazon to buy August Home for $100 million. It’s the latest attempt to make a business off of letting ...
GamesBeat Decides 72: Enter the Konami code to unlock Trump's secret game meeting
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 00:35
We’re back with one dang busy week to discuss on the latest episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast. Over the last couple of days, we broke the news that Battlefield V is coming this year, Mike broke a video card, and...
Deep learning is only as good as its data
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 00:10
GUEST: “Deep learning” has become a hot topic in the general rush to launch AI products. But many of these products will fail because companies are putting branding ahead of functionality. Success depends on understa...
FileShadow Founder Tyrone Pike Finds Consistent Paths To Success
Forbes - 3 Mar 2018 23:02
There are many routes to success--but this serial entrepreneur has used consistent strategies for the 10-plus companies he has led.
SEC subpoenas show the SAFT approach to token sales is a bad idea
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 22:11
GUEST: News broke this week that the SEC has been issuing a large number of subpoenas to Initial Coin Offering (ICO) issuers, targeting technology companies, and their investors and advisors. Generally, subpoenas are the...
Virtualitics raises $7 million to bring mixed reality and big data to the sci-fi future
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 22:10
GUEST: Virtualitics, the pioneering startup that merges AI and VR/AR with big data, recently announced the close of its $7 million Series B. The round was led by by Centricus, a global investment platform, and with pa...
Photographs demo shows off clever puzzles and a tragic story
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 16:00
EightyEight Games’s introspective puzzler Photographs is due out later this year for PC, iOS, and Android. In a demo, I saw how it uses minigames to tell its myriad tales. Each of the chapters centers on one character....
VR Train Sim Rolling Line choo-choo chooses April 6 launch date
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 13:34
We like to refer to lots of third-person VR games as “train set VR” here at UploadVR, but Rolling Line takes that definition very seriously. Rolling Line is the latest from Gaugepunk Games, the team that brought you ...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with 9 bug fixes and broken Windows Mixed Reality
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 07:17
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a nine bug fixes and a broken Windows Mixed Reality. This build is from the RS4 branch, which represents the next Windows 10 update the company has yet to an...
Bloom's blockchain credit app sees record signups after more bad news from Equifax
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2018 02:50
Blockchain-based credit-score app Bloom saw record signups yesterday, following an announcement from credit-scoring powerhouse Equifax about further damages from its massive data breach last year. Equifax said Thursday t...