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ISTE 2018 Preview: Teacher's Reclaim Your Classroom With ClassMode
Nibletz - 23 May 2018 23:58
Ensure Your Students Are Paying Attention With ClassMode The smartphone is a very valuable tool in the lives of students in and out of the classroom. In BYOD (Bring your own device) environments these devices can unlock ...
Battlefield V's combat will be more physical and visceral
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 23:15
Electronic Arts announced Battlefield V today, describing the details of the first-person shooter game coming in October to the consoles and the PC. As it did so, the game developers at EA’s DICE studio in Sweden said ...
Cleantech needs more AI talent to help save the world
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 23:10
GUEST: The International Energy Agency recently confirmed dread-worthy news that carbon emissions hit a record high in 2017. Scientists working in the cleantech space around the world are busy trying to find ways to slow...
Battlefield V's Grand Operations are epic, multiday skirmishes
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 22:48
One of the big new modes in Battlefield V is Grand Operations. This is a twist on the Operations from Battlefield 1 that ups the scale, the stakes, and the tension in 64-player battles that take inspiration from real his...
ISTE 2018: Career Village Is Like A Global Career Day
Nibletz - 23 May 2018 22:46
CareerVillage Crowd Sources All Of The Jobs Imagine if you had access to someone with every single job in the world. Imagine if your school could host a global career day and you had a way for your students to learn abou...
Battlefield V won't have 'random bullet deviation'
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 22:38
Guns are one of the most common weapons in video games. They are everywhere. But despite their ubiquitous presence, developers still struggle with how to represent their behavior in a virtual world. For Battlefield V, DI...
Battlefield V's multiplayer rewards include Tiger Tanks, V1 rockets, and Crocodiles
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 22:37
Battlefield V will encourage multiplayer communication and engagement by grouping players into tight-knit squads. And it will offer some jumbo rewards — like Tiger tanks or V1 rockets — to squads that perform the bes...
Battlefield V gets building with fortifications, but this isn't Fortnite
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 22:36
Battlefield V will feature more destructible buildings and environments than ever before thanks to the latest refinements to DICE’s Frostbite game engine, according to the game’s developers. Electronic Arts announced...
Battlefield V goes to Norway and Rotterdam to avoid familiar WWII landscapes
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 22:35
The battlefields of Battlefield V won’t be totally familiar with gamers, and that’s the way that the designers at publisher Electronic Arts’ DICE studio want it. They wanted to bring Battlefield back to World War I...
Wizard of Legend sold over 200,000 copies of its indie dungeon crawler in a week
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 22:05
Wizard of Legend launched like a magic missile almost a week ago on May 15, and it has already sold more than 200,000 copies. Developer Contingent99 published the dungeon crawler on PC, but it teamed up with Humble Bundl...
ISTE 2018 Preview: Learnics Gives Teachers and Students Access To Data On How They Are Learning
Nibletz - 23 May 2018 21:01
Learnics’ Thinking App Gives Teachers and Students Valuable Insights On The Way They Learn When you were in school did you ever spend all night or a string of nights working on a paper that you thought was spectacular ...
Watch Battlefield V's reveal event right here
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 20:56
Electronic Arts and DICE are about to open the curtain that is hiding the shiny new entry in the Battlefield military shooter franchise. The game is due out later this year, but EA hasn’t provided many details beyond a...
Uber shuts down self-driving car program in Arizona
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 20:19
Uber is shutting down its self-driving car program in Arizona following the death of a pedestrian, the company confirmed to VentureBeat today. “We’re committed to self-driving technology, and we look forward to retur...
Canalys: Google shipped more smart speakers than Amazon in Q1 2018
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 20:08
Despite the growing popularity of Amazon’s Echo smart speakers, Google’s global shipments of Home series speakers surged during the first quarter of 2018, surpassing Amazon’s shipments for the first time ever. Acco...
Pocket-Run Pool is indie dev Zach Gage's version of 8-Ball
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 20:05
Indie game developer Zach Gage has scored hits with titles such as Really Bad Chess and Flipflop Solitaire. Now he’s back with his own take on 8-Ball with a game called Pocket-Run Pool. The arcade pool game made its wo...
Federal judge rules Trump is violating the First Amendment by blocking Twitter users
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 20:04
President Donald Trump can’t block users from seeing his tweets, a federal judge ruled today. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University brought forth the lawsuit on behalf of seven people who had been...
Firefox Focus for Android gets cookie management and autocomplete improvements
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 20:00
Mozilla updated Firefox Focus for Android today with cookie management and autocomplete improvements. You can download the latest version of the company’s privacy browser now from Google Play. Firefox Focus offers priv...
Intel unveils Nervana Neural Net L-1000 for accelerated AI training
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 19:38
Intel today announced plans to release Nervana Neural Net L-1000, code named Spring Crest, to make it easier for developers to test and deploy AI models. Intel first introduced the Neural Network Processor (NNP) family o...
Dutch police are using AI to pick out the most solvable cold cases
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 19:26
Dutch police are using AI to help solve cold case files. Using natural language processing, the system reduces case processing time from several weeks to a single day.
Okta and Workplace by Facebook Partner to Power and Secure Enterprise Collaboration
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 19:25
PRESS RELEASE: Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, and Workplace by Facebook today announced a partnership and product integration to give enterprises a simple, secu...
ISTE 2018 Preview: Learn Why Students Excel At Reading With BookNook
Nibletz - 23 May 2018 18:47
BookNook Is Revolutionizing The Way Students Improve Their Reading Skills, Everywhere. BookNook is a technology driven reading product that inspires “knee to knee” collaboration in the classroom encouraging students ...
Apple offers $50 refund for some 2017 iPhone battery replacements
Venture Beat - 23 May 2018 18:46
Having started a discounted iPhone battery replacement program at the end of December 2017, Apple is now offering $50 refunds to customers who paid earlier in the year to replace iPhone 6 or later devices’ batteries. T...