Startup News
Zoom is using blockchain to match freelancers with businesses and manage projects
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 22:48
Several resources already help startups and entrepreneurs employ contractors and freelancers. But since it is 2018, the market is ready for a blockchain-powered service that can provide access to temporary and permanent ...
AI Weekly: Trump, forget Google -- focus on national security
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 22:38
This week, President Trump took shots at Google for what he calls unfair search results for his name and unfair treatment of conservatives by Silicon Valley liberals. In this same vein, he talked about how some people se...
Logitech G502 Hero review -- love that new sensor smell
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 22:05
Logitech’s G502 mouse is one of the best-selling PC peripherals in the world. It is a beloved gaming mouse that people love for its form-factor and high-performing optical sensor, but now Logitech has an updated versio...
Black Desert Online's Remastered campaign brings in a huge surge of players
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 20:38
Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games said that Black Desert Online has seen a surge of returning and new users from their Remastered campaign in the past week. Black Desert Online returning users are up 103.6 percent in the past ...
Gil Hyatt interview: Why patent examiners gave controversial patents a scarlet letter
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 20:01
Gil Hyatt’s patience has been tested. After a 22-year delay, the inventor received a patent in 1990 for what he called the first microprocessor, or a computer on a chip. After cutting a deal with Philips Electronics, h...
Why 80-year-old inventor Gil Hyatt says patent office is waiting for him to die
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 19:30
During discovery in ongoing litigation, inventor Gil Hyatt found that the patent office had a special way of flagging and thus killing potentially controversial patents called the Sensitive Applications Warning System (o...
ProBeat: Firefox is hitting Chrome right in the ads
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 19:30
OPINION: Mozilla made a surprise announcement yesterday: Firefox will soon block web trackers by default. This is a privacy and performance gain that Google is going to have a hard time matching in Chrome. Let me explain...
Samsung and BBH tap AR and Family Guy to demonstrate the wonders of smart appliances
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 19:20
Samsung and marketing agency BBH tapped Family Guy and augmented reality to demonstrate the former's SmartThings-compatible appliances.
How game developers can figure out what they're passionate about
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 18:30
NBCUniversal, Intel, Microsoft, and Unity are engaged in a developer contest dubbed the Universal GameDev Challenge, in which the companies asked indie game developers to propose games based on its brands such as Back to...
Facebook is using unsupervised machine learning for translations
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 17:00
Facebook has begun using unsupervised machine learning to translate content on its platform when it doesn't have many examples of translations from one language to another — such as from English to Urdu. The method was...
The DeanBeat: EA's esports tragedy, Riot's sexism, and Cyberpunk 2077's awesomeness
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 17:00
Violence came home to the video game community this week with the shootings at a Madden esports competition in Jacksonville, Florida. A mentally disturbed Madden player went to the Madden NFL Championship Series with a g...
Microsoft announces Windows 10 October 2018 Update
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 17:00
Microsoft today revealed that the next free Windows 10 update is called the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. For those keeping track, this is Windows 10 version 1809. Although the company had not announced this update bef...
Misty Robotics CEO Tim Enwall: Everyone will have a home robot in 10-20 years
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 16:21
Misty Robotics CEO Tim Enwall talks about the future of Misty II, its home robot development platform, and broader industry trends.
Huawei debuts Kirin 980, the world's first 7nm mobile chip
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 14:30
Huawei's Kirin 980 chipset is the world's first fabricated on a 7nm process, but that's not all that's impressive about it. It's got a speedier GPU and modem, and a new dual Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that accelerates ...
Huawei's first smart speaker is the AI Cube, with Alexa and built-in 4G router
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 14:30
Huawei took the wraps off a smart speaker at IFA 2018: the AI Cube. It's an Alexa-powered gadget with a built-in 4G LTE hotspot and "superior" audio quality.
Stop your gamers from screwing themselves and you over (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 13:10
VB LIVE: With every instance of fraud, your game's reputation takes a nose dive, which directly impacts your bottom line. But fraud has always been notoriously difficult to combat - until now. To learn how machine learni...
Neato unveils Botvac D4 Connected and Botvac D6 Connected robot vacuums
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 09:54
Robotic vacuum company Neato unveiled a host of new products at its IFA 2018 briefing, including two new models with improved runtime.
China's education ministry moves to curtail screen time for games to prevent myopia
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 08:40
China’s Ministry of Education issued a notice on Thursday aimed at preventing myopia, or nearsightedness, among children and adolescents by limiting the screen time for mobile devices, PCs, and consoles, according to m...
Russia tries more precise technology to block Telegram
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 07:28
(Reuters) — Russia is experimenting with more precise technology to block individual online services after an attempt to shut down banned messaging service Telegram failed, but Moscow has yet to find a way to shut it d...
Melbourne festival showcases Australia's impressive game dev growth
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 02:00
The Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) showed off its event program today, and it sheds light on how big Australia’s game business has become. Overall, there are 225 game companies in Australia, as of July 2017,...
Esports is hiring -- and you don't need to be a player
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 01:30
GUEST: Chances are you've heard about how huge esports is becoming. It’s on TV channels like ESPN and TBS, it has hundreds of thousands –or even millions — of dollars in prizes. And it's the industry that's drawn i...
Malala Yousafzai on the importance of technology, education, and ... magic
Venture Beat - 31 Aug 2018 00:55
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female schooling and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, spoke today about the role of technology in helping spread education, the importance of raising awareness for the various i...