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TSMC reportedly wins exclusive Apple A13 chip deal through 2019
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 14:55
Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC won all of Apple’s 2018 chip orders for the A12 Bionic processors used in the latest iPhones and upcoming iPads; now DigiTimes says that TSMC has won a 2019 exclusive on Apple’s A13 c...
Deep Lens raises $3.2 million for AI cloud pathology platform
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 16:55
Dave Billiter, an Ohio native and graduate of Ohio Northern University and Columbus Southern University, joined Nationwide Children’s Hospital in 2004, where he led the health system’s informatics efforts. There, he ...
Facebook now says 30 million users had access tokens, personal data stolen in recent breach
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 19:13
Today, Facebook gave users an update on a recent data breach that allowed hackers to steal users’ access tokens — the tokens that allow users to login to Facebook. Facebook now says that 30 million users had their ac...
U.S. legislators urge Canada to block Huawei from 5G networks
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 21:59
(Reuters) — Two leading U.S. lawmakers, both sharp critics of China, urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday to consider dropping China’s Huawei from helping to build next-generation 5G telecommunicati...
AI Weekly: Amazon, Facebook, and Google fight scandals and sell smart displays
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 21:10
This was one of the busiest weeks in recent memory for AI assistants from Facebook, Google, and Amazon, as each of these companies began to roll out the new category of smart display devices with AI assistants, speakers,...
Ninja will play Fortnite with a woman if you pay him or if you're Ellen
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 20:56
OPINION: Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has said that he won’t play games with women on his megapopular Twitch livestream. His reason is that he is concerned that people may start rumors that could upset his family. But tha...
The 'Summer of Weather Code'
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 20:20
SPONSORED: Presented by BeMyApp The first 'Summer of Weather Code', an online program run by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has just finished. The outcomes of this innovation program are t...
Analytics firm says 2018 iPad Pros will keep prior models' resolutions
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 19:54
Appsee, an app analytics firm that provided early confirmation of the screen resolution for Apple’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro, says (via MacRumors) that it has found evidence of two upcoming iPad models in its logs — and, c...
CoinTracker tracks taxes for cryptocurrencies -- and correlations between crypto holdings
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 19:35
CoinTracker started out as a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency investors, and now it has published aggregated data across its 50,000 connected crypto exchange accounts and $300 million worth of tracked cryptoass...
Google researchers use AI to pick out voices in a crowd
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 19:20
Separating a single person’s voice from a noisy crowd is something most people do subconsciously — it’s called the cocktail party effect. Smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon’s Echo typically have a tougher...
Why you should build a new PC right now -- a fall 2018 guide
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 18:06
FEATURE: About two months ago, I started working on a story about building a new PC in 2018. The whole point of that story was that the good times are here again. After the cryptocurrency debacle of 2017, prices have sta...
Google AI claims 99% accuracy in metastatic breast cancer detection
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 18:00
Metastatic tumors — cancerous cells which break away from their tissue of origin, travel through the body through the circulatory or lymph systems, and form new tumors in other parts of the body — are notoriously dif...
Making sense of Pixel Slate's crazy CPU options
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 17:43
ANALYSIS: In the leak-laden leadup to this week’s official announcement of the Pixel Slate, Google allowed public benchmarking tools to capture what appeared to be four different Intel CPUs in testing for the tablet: a...
The curious case of Google Home Hub's missing camera
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 16:32
Google unveiled the Home Hub, a device that delivers visual interaction with Google Assistant, on Tuesday. A lot of what we know about the Home Hub was leaked beforehand. The same can be said for the Pixel 3, Pixel Stand...
Bethesda opens new Russia studio in Moscow
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 16:25
Bethesda Softworks announced today that it has opened a new studio in Moscow, Russia. It will focus on marketing and sales in that region. This is a big step in Bethesda’s global expansion. The Fallout and Elder Scroll...
Andreas Sennheiser interview: How Magic Leap's AR glasses will enable 'transparent audio'
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 16:10
Without sound, visuals are nothing. This week, German audio company Sennheiser reinforced that point as it launched its Ambeo AR One headphones for use with Magic Leap's augmented reality glasses. The new technology is a...
Magic Leap chief content officer: 'We recognize how important independent developers are'
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 14:45
Rio Caraeff’s job is to see that there is enough fun and engaging stuff on the Magic Leap One Creator Edition augmented reality glasses. Caraeff, the chief content officer at Magic Leap, took to the stage during the th...
VC investment in European startups plunged 21% in Q3 2018
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 13:13
As Silicon Valley and China see VC funding accelerate, Europe seems to be slipping into a lower gear. According to the latest quarterly numbers from Dow Jones VentureSource, the amount of funding raised by startups in Eu...
WhatsApp fights fake news in India using actors who role-play in public
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 11:09
(Reuters) — On a hot morning in India's tourist mecca of Jaipur, an open truck painted in the signature lime-green colors of Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service pulls into a dusty lane, where five men spill out and b...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 review in progress -- A fresh experience for those with an open mind
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 06:00
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 could have been a disaster. Battle royale games from rivals came out at a very inconvenient time: during the middle of development of Black Ops 4. Fan expectations changed completely. Activision...
Arizona and Intel team up on Institute for Automated Mobility to develop driverless vehicle technology
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 03:30
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey today announced that he has signed an executive order creating the Institute for Automated Mobility (IAM), a brain trust of enterprises, government agencies, and universities that will collabo...
Sensor Tower: Nintendo's Dragalia Lost generates $16 million in 2 weeks
Venture Beat - 12 Oct 2018 01:11
EXCLUSIVE: Nintendo’s latest mobile release is bringing in the bucks. While it is successful, it is not the publisher’s best launch on the platform. The fantasy role-playing adventure Dragalia Lost has generated $16 ...