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Xbox Live is down, so how will teens yell at me now?
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 02:57
Xbox Live isn’t working for everyone at the moment. Microsoft has confirmed the issue on its Xbox Live status site, and players are complaining about the outage on social media. This is preventing people from signing i...
China's game-regulation mess is starting to hurt developers
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 01:42
The Chinese government has to approve every game that goes on sale in that country, which is a problem considering it hasn’t approved any new digital games since March 28 — that even includes games from domestic deve...
Paradise Game wants to create a thriving community for African devs
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 23:22
The game developer-focused conference Devcom debuted at last year’s Gamescom (one of the largest gaming shows in the world) in Cologne, Germany. It’s back again this month from August 19 to Auguest 23, running presen...
Fuzzify.me shows how advertisers are targeting you on Facebook
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 22:45
How exactly online ad targeting works remains a nebulous topic for many casual internet users. A trio of researchers is hoping to demystify the process — with a new browser extension they launched this week called Fuzz...
Twitch glitch may have exposed some of your messages to other users
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 22:41
Twitch is warning users that it may have exposed some of their messages to other users. The livestreaming site has sent out emails today to a number of its broadcasters about a bug that would misfile older messages so th...
iPhones may get stylus support in 2018 -- but will anyone care?
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 22:30
ANALYSIS: Taiwanese sources are claiming, once again, that this year's iPhones are getting stylus support. Will anyone care?
How AI is decommoditizing the chip industry
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 22:15
GUEST: Since the early days of computing, there has always been this idea that artificial intelligence would one day change the world. We’ve seen this future depicted in countless pop culture references and by futurist...
The RetroBeat: Remembering 2000's big Spider-Man game
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 22:05
OPINION: We’re just a few weeks away from the release of a new Spider-Man game, which will be a PlayStation 4 exclusive when it launches on September 4. Having played some of Insomniac’s open-world superhero game at ...
Tapping global markets for your subscription model biz (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 21:42
VB LIVE: Dollar Shave Club, Netflix, BlueApron -- they're the subscription business success stories that launched consumer appetite for monthly goods, billed monthly, and got companies thinking about the bottom-line oppo...
PUBG Mobile passes 100 million downloads, celebrates by hiding in a bathroom
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 19:41
PUBG Mobile has surpassed 100 million downloads on iOS and Android. Publisher Tencent Games revealed that it has zipped past that milestone in fewer than 4 months since its debut on smartphones and tablets. PUBG Mobile c...
Canalys: Smart speaker market grew 187% in Q2 2018
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 19:22
Market analysts at Canalys claim that the smart speaker market grew 187 percent in the second quarter of this year, and that China is poised to overtake the U.S. in terms of growth.
Voice-controlled Glas thermostat supports Cortana, Alexa, and Google Assistant
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 18:10
The transparent, voice-controlled thermostat Glas today addressed its key issue -- dependence on Microsoft's Cortana -- by adding support for Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant.
Google updates Firebase with In-App Messaging, new Crashlytics integrations, and tools improvements
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 18:00
Google today updated Firebase, its service for helping developers build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Firebase has gained an In-App Messaging feature, new Crashlytics integrations, Remote Config change history, imp...
Carnegie Mellon researchers create the most convincing deepfakes yet
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 17:12
Ever heard of "deepfakes," videos generated with artificial intelligence (AI) that learn to superimpose the face of one person onto the body of another? For better or worse, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have...
Google is bringing native hearing aid support to Android
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 16:48
Google is developing a new open specification that will enable Android to support hearing aids natively from any manufacturer. Android’s lack of native hearing aid support has been a common complaint from members of th...
Battlefield V's new trailer embraces tradition after debut video's backlash
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 16:43
Electronic Arts has released a new trailer for Battlefield V today, which you can watch above. After the controversial debut trailer angered some fans (it has more dislikes than likes on YouTube), this video takes a more...
Sony has sold 3 million PlayStation VR headsets
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 16:10
Sony announced today that its PlayStation VR headset has reached the 3 million sold milestone. It has also sold 21 million PSVR games. Over 3 million #PlayStationVR headsets have now been sold around the world. Thank you...
Twitter kills third-party push notifications and auto timeline refresh
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 16:03
Despite months of protests from both users and developers, Twitter is today killing third-party app access to some of its most popular features, including push notifications and automatic timeline updates.
How Creative Assembly conceived the art for Total War: Three Kingdoms
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 16:01
With Total War: Three Kingdoms, the Creative Assembly studio of Sega is branching away from pure history, moving into the realm of legend and myth. While the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the battle for control of an...
Total War: Three Kingdoms hands-on -- Escaping a deadly night ambush
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 16:00
Total War: Three Kingdoms isn’t coming out until the spring of 2019, but Sega’s Creative Assembly studio showed me one of the things that will be unique about the game: night battles. After giving a glimpse of the de...
Analytics firm Crimson Hexagon regains Facebook access following scrutiny over government contracts
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 15:21
Nearly a month after being suspended by Facebook following a high-profile Wall Street Journal story scrutinizing its contracts with government agencies, Boston-based data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon stated that its ac...
Indeed identifies the most popular entry-level tech jobs in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2018 15:01
Job site Indeed has determined that the five most popular entry-level tech jobs in the U.S. are junior Java developer, computer-aided engineering (CAE) engineer, junior product designer, junior data analyst, and junior s...