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Chefling partners with Bosch to bring smart appliances into meal planning and prep
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 21:35
The kitchen can be a forbidding place. Grocery planning isn’t most people’s idea of a good time. Neither is meal prepping. But Chefling, a Sunnyvale, California startup that raised $1 million in January for its artif...
Outgoing ESA CEO Mike Gallagher may be moving on to politics
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 01:35
Mike Gallagher resigned his job as CEO of the Entertainment Software Association today, after 11 years running the video game industry’s lobbying group in the U.S. Gallagher didn’t say what he would do next, but we h...
GamesBeat Decides 98: What do we even want from a new Nintendo Switch?
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 23:41
The GamesBeat Decides podcast is so nuanced that it can see the silver lining of even the worst human tragedies. That’s why on this week’s episode, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti don’t shy away from talking a...
AI Weekly: Free speech fears about California's bot bill are overblown
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 19:55
How many bots have you interacted with today? If you're an avid social media user, the number might be higher than you realize. In fact, 95 million Instagram users could be bots. Experts peg the number of bots on Twitter...
ProBeat: Your Phone wins the Windows 10 October 2018 Update
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 19:30
OPINION: At its “A moment of your time” event in New York City this week, Microsoft started rolling out its sixth free update to Windows 10. You can download it manually now or wait until Windows Update deems your PC...
Kingdom Hearts: The Story So Far can bring PS4 gamers up to speed before Kingdom Hearts III
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 18:25
Square Enix is releasing a new compilation of Kingdom Hearts action-role-playing games for the PlayStation 4 on October 30. The video game publisher is calling it The Story So Far, and it will include the already release...
Stanford AI detects even the smallest earthquakes from seismic data
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 18:15
Seismic events like the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that hit off the coast of Japan in March 2011 aren’t difficult to detect, but few are quite so violent. Microearthquakes — low-intensity earthquakes that register 2.0 ...
U.S. share of global venture capital fell more than 20% in 5 years
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 18:00
Year after year, startups in U.S. cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston continue to raise an unprecedented amount of venture capital — but so do companies in other parts of the world. Now, a new report out to...
How AI and emotion tracking are helping brands avoid costly video campaign mistakes
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 17:30
EXCLUSIVE: Marketers have plenty of ways to measure video campaign success, but artificial intelligence is uncovering new methods for determining whether the dollars you’re spending are being applied optimally. That’...
BlueOcean Ventures ll's blockchain-powered VC fund targets medical innovation
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 15:45
In everything from AI to scan for diseases and cancers to blockchain to provide global health care for patients, today’s emerging technologies are making a real difference in medicine. To further that trend, BlueOcean ...
Amazon streamlines device setup for Alexa companion app
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 15:40
Most interactions with Alexa can be conducted via voice, but the Alexa companion app for smartphones supercharges Amazon’s assistant — enabling you to group together smart devices, create routines with chained comman...
Observer Analytics measures user interactions in VR, AR, and mixed reality
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 15:15
EXCLUSIVE: Observer Analytics has launched its analytics platform for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. That’s a lot of realities, but the truth is it isn’t clear which of these new technologies ...
Grab's ambitious plans to digitize Southeast Asia's economies may get $500 million boost from SoftBank
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 14:10
In an era when people are becoming increasingly cynical about the power of tech companies, the founders of Singapore-based Grab remain unrelenting optimists. Now they’re putting their beliefs to the test with an ambiti...
Fortnite's Android gambit could reform mobile's walled gardens
Venture Beat - 5 Oct 2018 01:15
GUEST: Epic Games’ decision to release Fortnite on Android outside of Google Play is one of the biggest stories in the mobile games industry in years. The company's decision to bypass Google's app store and force Andro...