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Eon Foundation raises $5 million for blockchain game publishing
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 17:00
Eon Foundation has raised $5 million for its blockchain game publishing business. In doing so, the Palo Alto, California, and Singapore company hopes to disrupt traditional game publishing through the new technologies of...
Apple faces class action lawsuit over Apple Watch screen 'defect'
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 16:43
Every generation of the Apple Watch suffers from a defect that can cause the screen to crack or detach from the wearable’s housing, a new lawsuit alleges. Filed in California, the lawsuit is for a relatively small amou...
Supercell invests $5 million in U.S. indie studio Redemption Games
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 17:01
Supercell's indie studio investment spree continues today with a $5 million bet on mobile game studio Redemption Games. The Carlsbad, California-based studio deal represents Helsinki-based Supercell’s first investment ...
Facebook bug set 14 million users' privacy setting for status updates to public
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 22:36
Facebook today revealed that a bug last month set some users’ suggested privacy settings for posts to public. The company estimates that 14 million users were affected, and is notifying users of the bug starting today....
ISTE 2018 Preview: Kids, Kittens, Coding and Code.Game
Nibletz - 7 Jun 2018 22:20
Code.Game Is The Most Interesting Way For Kids 7+ To Learn Computer Programming Let’s face it, it’s time for kids to learn coding. We’ve featured a handful of great ways to expose kids to coding but nothing works b...
ISTE 2018 Preview: Typing Pal Is Where Students Learn To Type and Keyboard Correctly
Nibletz - 7 Jun 2018 22:00
Now More Than Ever, Students Need A TypingPal We may be experiencing the first generation of students that have always had access to a wireless device. Whether it’s a smart phone or tablet doesn’t matter, but student...
Facebook launches Level Up program and landing page for gaming livestreams
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 22:00
Facebook launched its Gaming Creator program in January to boost gaming livestreams on its platform. It’s now building on that with its Gaming Creator landing page, which acts as a hub for relevant broadcasts, as well ...
Google CEO bans autonomous weapons in new AI guidelines
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 21:38
Google today released guidelines for the creation of artificial intelligence, which includes a ban on making autonomous weaponry and most applications of AI with the potential to harm people. The guidelines emerge just d...
How The Learning Experience Continues To Grow Its Childcare Network
Forbes - 7 Jun 2018 21:15
Last year The Learning Experience added 27 new locations to its roster of childcare facilities, but to sign those new shops it had to wade through quite a few inquiries from interested parties--a process its gotten very ...
Hitman 2 confirmed: Agent 47 returns in November
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 20:46
The 2016 Hitman reboot is getting a direct sequel called Hitman 2 that launches in November. Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced the sequel in partnership with developer IO Interactive during a livest...
The One Thing You Should Do Before Every Big Project
Forbes - 7 Jun 2018 20:29
Are you prepared for the worst? Nobody likes to be pessimistic about the likelihood of a big project succeeding, but it's far more useful to imagine the worst now than to pick through the rubble of a failed project later...
Want Great Brand Stories? Get Them From Your Customers (Here's How)
Forbes - 7 Jun 2018 20:25
User testimonials can be much more powerful than using paid spokespeople or high profile employees to tell your brand story. Here are some tips to find and build the best reviews for your company.
Dauntless's open beta attracts over 1 million monster hunters
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 20:05
Phoenix Labs announced today that its cooperative PC game Dauntless has attracted over 1 million players during to its open beta. The testing for the action role-playing game began on May 24. Dauntless is similar to Capc...
Why Slack And General Catalyst Just Backed Video Platform Loom In $4 Million Round
Forbes - 7 Jun 2018 19:59
Meetings and emails are the bane of the modern workplace. Video messaging platform Loom is here to change that.
ABBYY's AI turns your camera into a 104-language translator
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 19:32
EXCLUSIVE: When you think about language translation, it’s hard not to turn to Google Translate immediately. But, despite years of development and technology acquisition, it still has challenges. For example, what happ...
Driver in fatal Tesla Autopilot crash had no hands on steering wheel
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 19:16
(Reuters) — The driver of a Tesla Model X car using Autopilot did not have his hands on the steering wheel in the six seconds before a fatal crash in California in March, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board s...
Jurassic World: Blue VR experience gets a second chapter in time for new film
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 19:00
Oculus, Felix & Paul Studios, and Universal Pictures are launching the second chapter of Jurassic World: Blue, a two-part virtual reality experience produced to coincide with the recent release of the Oculus Go VR headse...
Versus Systems launches Winfinite rewards for video game players
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 18:15
EXCLUSIVE: Gamer rewards startups are becoming a dime a dozen these days. But Versus Systems believes it has something unique in its Winfinite rewards platform for mobile, PC, and console games. Versus is launching its W...
Why You Should Be Fact Checking Your Content (And How to Do It)
Forbes - 7 Jun 2018 17:57
Do you have a formal fact checking process to ensure all the information within your content is accurate? If not, now's the time to get started.
Days Gone's zombie open world opens on February 22, 2019 for PS4
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 17:41
Sony announced that Days Gone, the open world zombie game from Bend Studio, is coming out on February 22, 2019 for PlayStation 4. The PlayStation publisher made the announcement via a new trailer, which you can watch abo...
How Ready At Dawn Studios designed Echo Combat for zero-gravity VR firefights
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 17:30
If anyone succeeds in turning virtual reality gaming into an esport, it will probably be Ready At Dawn Studios. The Irvine, California-based studio created Lone Echo and Echo Arena for the Oculus Rift in 2017, and it’s...
CardLinx Releases New Data Highlighting Growth for AI Driven O2O Commerce
Venture Beat - 7 Jun 2018 17:25
PRESS RELEASE: The CardLinx Association today released new data from the 2018 Card-Linking and O2O Industry Annual Survey and announced new groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) commerce forums in the USA, China an...