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Overcooked 2 review -- No party is complete without a food fight
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 23:45
REVIEW: Ghost Town Games is back in the kitchen with Overcooked 2, the followup to its award-winning couch co-op game. This time, the indie studio has partnered with publisher Team17, and its title debuted today on PC, P...
Snap loses 3 million daily users in Q2, but beats revenue expectations
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 22:56
(Reuters) — Snap Inc’s Snapchat app unexpectedly lost users in the second quarter, the company said on Tuesday, likely adding fuel to investor fears about slowing growth in the social media sector. Daily users fell t...
Facebook's fake news, spam, and porn filters are dangerously inept
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 21:58
OPINION: Despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claim that "on Facebook, more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic," it's becoming increasingly obvious that the company is either inept or not interested in removing gar...
Elon Musk tweets about taking Tesla private, shares spike
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 20:20
(Reuters) — Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Twitter he is considering taking Tesla private at $420 per share as the electric car maker faces the challenges of fast growth and financial constraints, sending its shares...
Dead Cells' Twitch integration is great
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 19:31
The new Metroidvania-style Roguelike action platformer Dead Cells from developer Motion Twin that is out today on PC and consoles comes with Twitch integration in its Steam version. In this “streaming mode,” your Twi...
Beam is bringing blockchain technology to retail mobile payments
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 19:15
EXCLUSIVE: A global payments acceptance platform, Beam, is combining mobile phones and blockchain technology to provide a way of providing that ease-of-use and speed necessary for retail payments. And the company believe...
Hearthstone: The Boomsday Project is now live
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 19:01
Hearthstone’s latest expansion, The Boomsday Project, is now live. The set adds 135 new cards for the PC and mobile digital card game. The digital card game market is worth $1.5 billion, and Hearthstone is the king of ...
How CableLabs envisions learning with video walls, light field Holodecks, and AR/VR
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 19:00
As CEO of CableLabs, Phil McKinney's job is to do research on the future and how to build the networks that the future will require, particularly for education. We spoke with McKinney about his latest vision in an interv...
Scale raises $18 million to label data from autonomous car companies like Lyft and Embark
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 18:21
San Francisco-based startup Scale has raised $18 million for its system that labels autonomous car data quickly and accurately.
Liqueneq's blockchain bank payments handle millions of transactions per second
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 18:00
Swiss startup Liquineq has come up with a bank funds transfer platform that uses blockchain for security and scales to millions of transactions per second for both commercial and consumer purposes. That could bring the t...
Google updates Classroom and reveals ARCore is coming to the Acer Chromebook Tab 10
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 17:35
Google today announced a bunch of updates are now rolling out to its Google for Education suite. Some of these upgrades were first unveiled in June at ISTE 2018, an annual conference hosted by the International Society f...
The World Ends with You: Final Remix hits Nintendo Switch on October 12
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 17:23
Nintendo announced today that Square Enix‘s The World Ends with You: Final Remix releases for the Nintendo Switch on October 12. The World Ends with You first released for the Nintendo DS in 2017. The unique action rol...
Infowars ban highlights obstacles to cracking down on hate speech
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 17:15
OPINION: In case you missed it, Facebook announced yesterday that it was unpublishing four pages belonging to fringe conspiracy site Infowars and its main host, Alex Jones, for violating the social network’s hate speec...
Zerion launches Tokenary to make Ethereum wallets easy to use
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 16:30
EXCLUSIVE: One of the things that constantly holds back the adoption of blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies is their complexity. Techies know how to navigate these new waters, but the average consumer has a hard...
Deloitte: China is outspending and outpacing U.S. in 5G development
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 16:06
United States cellular carriers may be the first to launch large-scale 5G networks, but China is deploying far more 5G infrastructure at a rapid clip, and could soon emerge as the world's leader in next-generation wirele...
As Uber winds down autonomous truck business, Otto founders aren't giving up
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 16:02
Uber doled out more than $600 million to acquire self-driving truck startup Otto two years ago. Last week, Uber announced it was ceasing work on its autonomous trucking business to focus on cars. Earlier this year, Uber ...
Tokyo will use facial recognition for security during the 2020 Olympics
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 15:57
Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympics to use facial recognition technology to increase security around all venues.
Renovo and Here partner to bring map analytics to self-driving cars
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 15:17
Here and Renovo announced a collaboration that'll see the former's HD mapping technology integrated with the later's autonomous driving platform.
Apple joins Thread Group, hinting at Wi-Fi mesh networking plans
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 15:07
Apple is taking another step towards mesh networking by joining The Thread Group, an organization devoted to promoting a new low-power mesh networking standard.
Mozilla debuts Firefox extension that recommends content based on your browsing activity
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 15:01
Mozilla today lifted the lid on an experimental Firefox feature that recommends content based on what you’re currently reading through the browser. The new tool is available as part of the Firefox Test Pilot program, w...
NBC and ReKTGlobal partner to give Universal Open Rocket League competitors the spotlight
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 15:00
Developer Psyonix’s second annual Universal Open Rocket League tournament for its soccer-with-cars hit game is speeding toward its grand finals on August 24 to August 26. But in the meantime, broadcasting partner NBC S...
StreetLight Data raises $10 million for real-time traffic analytics software
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2018 15:00
San Francisco-based traffic analytics startup StreetLight Data has raised $10 million from a bevy of investors including ENGIE New Ventures and Osage University Partners.