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Qualcomm claims its on-device voice recognition is 95% accurate
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 02:22
Engineers at Qualcomm are developing an on-device voice assistant that can recognize words and phrases with 95 percent accuracy.
U.S. reaches deal to keep China's ZTE in business
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 22:13
(Reuters) — The Trump administration told lawmakers the U.S. government has reached a deal to put Chinese telecommunications company ZTE back in business after it pays a significant fine and makes management changes, a...
Atari cofounder Ted Dabney passes away
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 22:10
Ted Dabney, video game pioneer and cofounder of Atari, has passed away. Dabney was one of the people who was there at the beginning of video games, which have now become a $137.9 billion business worldwide, according to ...
How government-backed VC firms help and hurt the Midwest
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 19:25
GUEST: If you look closely at Pitchbook's annual report, you might notice something unusual about the most active investors in the Midwest/Great Lakes regions (Pitchbook has split the broader Midwest into a few smaller r...
Firewall: Zero Hour tests how well you can target your enemy in VR
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 17:02
First Contact Entertainment is putting the finishing touches on its virtual reality first-person shooter, Firewall: Zero Hour. It pits four human players against four humans in multiplayer first-person shooter matches on...
A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia hands-on -- Fighting in the bloody woods
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 16:15
Sega recently launched a new type of Total War game, Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, as the latest in a long-running series of strategy titles for the PC. I gave it a whirl and checked out how it offers a new take ...
April 2018's top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: back to the city
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 15:00
Minecraft fans didn’t downloaded fewer pieces of content from the game’s Marketplace last month, but the top 10 lists for most downloaded and top grossing are both still excellent reminders of the variety and fun tha...
Coderblock Is The Best Coder Community To Join To Find Work, Colleagues and More
Nibletz - 26 May 2018 13:45
Coderblock Connects Developers To Work, A Collaboration Platform and A Place To Brush Up On Your Skills The truth of the matter is freelance software development can be boring. Many freelancers across the globe often wor...
Comparing Samsung, JDI, and LG's VR panels
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 12:34
Google worked with LG to develop a display panel providing an astonishing 18.1 megapixels of detail per eye in a VR headset. While Facebook wasn't ready to show its Half Dome varifocal prototype in-person, the new panel ...
PlayStation Network is down as Memorial Day weekend begins (update: back up)
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 01:41
Updated at 5:07 p.m. Pacific time on May 25: PSN is back up and running. You may have trouble getting into Fortnite and other games on your PlayStation 4 because PlayStation Network is down as Memorial Day Weekend begins...
AI Weekly: AI can be misused, but it's also a force for good
Venture Beat - 26 May 2018 01:04
This week, Amazon drew widespread condemnation for selling its Rekognition AI-powered recognition technology to law enforcement agencies. According to the ACLU, at least one local law enforcement agency used the technolo...