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HYP3R lands $17 million to geofence the world, including moving targets
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 13:30
Location-based marketing is still largely misunderstood. The vast majority of applications trigger an ad or campaign based on the position of the blue dot on your phone, without much in the way of context, segmentation, ...
Nintendo Direct livestream: Watch the Switch and 3DS event right here
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 23:31
It’s time for another Nintendo Direct video event today at 3 p.m. Pacific time. This is one of Nintendo’s streaming presentations. This time, it is focusing on the 3DS and Switch systems. That’s unlike many of the ...
How Nvidia is using its autonomous car platform to drive into health care
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 22:49
Nvidia is using the underlying architecture of its Drive autonomous vehicle platform to enable product development in other verticals with AI systems that deal with vast amounts of critical data, such as video surveillan...
The D20 Beat: Kingdoms of Amalur and its incredible world may have a future
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 22:00
Do you miss Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning? THQ Nordic scooped up the rights to the series last week, and in an email with business and product development director Reinhard Pollice, I dug into what this means for fans of ...
NZXT's BLD custom-PC service launches in Canada
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 20:33
PC component manufacturer NZXT has spend the last couple of years expanding its lineup of products. It has also worked to establish its BLD service to simplify the process of buying a custom PC in the United States. But ...
5 reasons the iPhone XR will succeed where iPhone 5c failed
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 19:57
Poll a few thousand people on the best iPhone ever made, and I’d be willing to bet that the iPhone 5c would have an average ranking in the bottom third or quarter of the list. What was expected to be the “affordable ...
Diablo III for Nintendo Switch launches November 2
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 19:40
Blizzard announced today that Diablo III: Eternal Collection is releasing for Switch on November 2. Diablo III first came out for PC back in 2013. It would release for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2013, and then for Pla...
Intel, Marvell, Qualcomm, and others will support Facebook's Glow compiler
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 19:30
At Facebook’s 2018 @Scale conference in San Jose, California today, the company announced broad industry backing for Glow, its machine learning compiler designed to accelerate the performance of deep learning framework...
I Expect You To Die's VR escape-room action grosses $3 million
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 18:56
Virtual reality is still a burgeoning market, but developers like Schell Games are finding success. The studio announced today that it has generated $3 million in revenue for its VR hit I Expect You To Die. The spy-theme...
Indian game developer sizzles as Food Truck Chef hits 16 million downloads
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 18:27
Food Truck Chef is feasting on 16 million downloads on its first anniversary. The game is a big hit for Indian developer Nukebox Studios. Food Truck Chef became the No.1 Android casual game in 40 countries, including the...
Google whitepaper explains GCP data deletion policies
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 18:00
What happens to your data once it makes its way to the nebulous cloud? If you’re a Google Cloud Platform customer, the answer became a bit clearer today courtesy of a new whitepaper that outlines the Mountain View comp...
Ryff lets advertisers place any virtual object into commercials and films
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 18:00
Ryff has a big idea that it says could turn the $23 billion product placement market upside down. Product placement is the advertising tactic of placing a branded object, like a bottle of Coca-Cola, in a scene in a movie...
Uber invests $150 million in Toronto engineering hub, self-driving car platform
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 17:36
(Reuters) — Uber is spending millions of dollars in Toronto to open an engineering hub and expand its self-driving car operations, the strongest indication yet that the company is not retreating from autonomous vehicle...
Cocos-BCX raises $40 million to develop blockchain gaming platform
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 16:00
Beijing-based Cocos-BCX has raised $40 million for its blockchain game development platform. The company was founded by the leaders of Cocos2d-x, one of the largest open-source game development platforms that became popu...
Bionik's InMotion robotics system can improve motion after a stroke
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 15:54
Three decades ago, a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation investigated the use of robots to help stroke patients recover motor skills. The MI...
Jurassic World: Evolution gets new challenge mode and more sandbox options
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 15:45
Frontier Developments released an update today for Jurassic World: Evolution on Xbox One and PC (it is coming to the PlayStation 4 version later). The patch adds a new challenge mode and gives players more options in san...
Mapillary strikes computer vision partnership with Amazon Rekognition to ease urban parking crunch
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 15:00
Many large U.S. cities seem to have adopted the motto: “Man, parking here sucks.” But a Swedish startup believes it can apply a little technology to solve a problem that is costing billions of dollars each year. Toda...
Google is ditching the Gmail Offline Chrome app from December 3
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 13:36
Google today announced that it's removing its Gmail Offline Chrome app from the Chrome Web Store “after” December 3, 2018. The internet giant first launched the Gmail Offline app for Chrome back in 2011, allowing Gma...
Former Riot Games vets raise $2.5 million for Singularity 6 games studio
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 13:00
Singularity 6 has raised $2.5 million in seed investment from London Venture Partners to build a game studio. The Los Angeles game developer was formed by former Riot Games veterans, and they are working on an unannounce...
Adobe in talks to buy marketing software firm Marketo
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 12:49
(Reuters) — Adobe Systems, the maker of image-editing software Photoshop, is in negotiations to buy Marketo, a privately held cloud-based marketing software company, according to people familiar with the matter. The de...
Google lets companies livestream meetings to 100,000 people through Hangouts Meet
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 12:02
Google has announced that G Suite Enterprise subscribers will now be able to livestream meetings to up to 100,000 people across the company. The feature is being added to Hangouts Meet, G Suite’s videoconferencing plat...
Kano launches DIY touchscreen computer kit to help kids learn to code
Venture Beat - 13 Sep 2018 11:00
Kano has announced the latest iteration of its DIY computer that’s designed to help kids learn how to code. The London-based company already offers a range of devices that anyone over the age of 6 can build themselves ...