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Catherine Seys interview: Ubisoft fosters creativity by tapping into startups
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 17:00
Ubisoft is a big French video game company with 15,000 employees and hits like Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. But the company knows it thrives on innovation and creativity, and that’s why the ...
Verizon will offer 5G home broadband starting October 1 for $50 to $70
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 23:24
Verizon announced today that it will begin offering its long-awaited fixed 5G home broadband service on October 1, 2018, starting in four cities: Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. Dubbed Verizon 5G Home...
FCC pauses review of T-Mobile and Sprint merger
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 22:41
(Reuters) — The Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing the planned merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, said on Tuesday it has paused its review clock to give the agency time to analyze new and anticipated sub...
Google's Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith on the importance of performance and getting the web 'off thread'
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 20:45
The latest version of Google Chrome arrived last week with a redesign and a slew of new features, days after the browser had turned 10 years old. The week before, I happened to be at Pluralsight Live in Salt Lake City, U...
Alphabet's Loon internet balloons can now fly 600 kilometers apart
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 20:37
Alphabet subsidiary Loon has achieved a new milestone: Maintaining an internet connection between seven balloons across a span of nearly 1,000 kilometers. For context, a single balloon in 2014 was capable of beaming inte...
At 5G Summit, Intel stakes claim as enabler for Nokia, Ericsson, and media
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 20:33
Ahead of this week’s Mobile Worlds Congress Americas, Intel today held a “5G summit” to discuss its plans for the next-generation wireless technology — a message focused almost exclusively on its role as an enabl...
MIT Lincoln Laboratory develops AI that shows its decision-making process
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 20:26
Artificial intelligence (AI) that explains its decisions like a human? It’s not as farfetched as you might think. In a paper published by MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory Intelligence and Decision Technologies Group (“Tran...
Streamer DrDisRespect claims someone shot at his house during a broadcast
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 20:21
During a livestream today, popular Twitch broadcaster DrDisRespect abruptly ended his session after breaking character to tell viewers that someone had shot at his house and broke an upstairs window. This happened while ...
Spintires: MudRunner heads to the backwoods of America -- and Switch
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 20:01
If you’ve played Spintires: MudRunner, you might come away with the belief that some random former Soviet state has the muddiest terrain on the planet, but as a proud American, I know that no one can outdo us when it c...
Roblox and the NFL team up on virtual football helmets
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 19:00
Roblox, the user-generated game world with 70 million monthly users, has teamed up with the National Football League to create virtual helmets representing all 32 teams. The deal represents a brand exposure opportunity f...
Pokémon Go's new social features grow active users by 35 percent
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 18:45
Niantic revealed today that Pokémon Go has had a 35 percent increase in active users since May. The mobile game added new social features, friend links and gifting, that have given players more ways to connect to each o...
Driver360 uses smartphone sensors to detect car crashes and call for help
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 18:36
Nearly 1.3 million people die in car crashes each year, according to the Association for Safe International Road Travel, and an additional 20-50 million end up injured or disabled. There’s a clear and present need for ...
Can fintech companies catch up with client demand for chat? (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 18:15
VB LIVE: Financial service providers are racing to invest in contextualized voice and chat capabilities - but how much do they really drive engagement and streamline communication? Don't miss this VB Live event, where yo...
Intel announces winner of its AI Interplanetary Challenge
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 18:00
Artificial intelligence won’t just teach robots to manipulate objects and improve the accuracy of pneumonia diagnoses — with a little ingenuity and elbow grease, it could help cosmologists unravel the mysteries of th...
Facebook adds 24 new languages to its automated translation service
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 18:00
Facebook has used artificial intelligence to improve its machine translation models and the social media giant is able to recognize and translate add 24 new languages. The new language translation pairs include Serbian a...
Newzoo: Smartphone users will top 3 billion in 2018, hit 3.8 billion by 2021
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 17:01
The number of smartphone users across the globe will top 3 billion in 2018, with the Asia-Pacific region accounting for more than half of that number, according to market researcher Newzoo. By 2021, the number of smartph...
Verizon holds $1 million contest for 5G education tech with AI, AR, or VR
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 16:26
In the foreseeable future, mixed reality glasses with 5G capabilities will change education, enabling some students to learn from far-away teachers and transforming fundamentals of the classroom experience for others. To...
South Korea threatens iPhone and iPad ban over patent infringement
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 16:18
South Korea is threatening to ban a wide collection of Apple’s iPhones and iPads over infringement of a key chip patent — but it’s waiting on the results of a challenge to the same patent by another infringer, Sams...
eBay open-sources HeadGaze so you can control an iPhone X screen with head movements
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 15:01
eBay has lifted the lid on new technology that helps physically impaired users interact with their iPhone X screen through head movements. With HeadGaze, the ecommerce giant leverages Apple’s ARKit platform — which w...
CareerBuilder's mobile app uses AR and AI to help your job search
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 15:00
CareerBuilder hopes to appeal to tech-happy job seekers with a new mobile app that uses both artificial intelligence and augmented reality to simplify job searches. The mobile app has some attention-grabbing features. It...
Humatics launches spatial intelligence platform for human-robot interactions
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 15:00
Humatics today announced the commercial launch of its spatial intelligence platform designed to help people and machines navigate a connected world with millimeter-scale precision. The technology uses a combination of ra...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout battle royale mode is both accessible and fun
Venture Beat - 11 Sep 2018 14:35
PREVIEW: It’s confession time. I’m terrible at Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But I’m better at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode. I gave it a the closed beta on the PlayStati...