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Google will charge Android device makers a licensing fee to preinstall its apps in Europe
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 20:00
Google has announced that is shaking up how its suite of apps are distributed through Android in Europe. The news comes after the Alphabet subsidiary was hit with a $5 billion fine by EU antitrust regulators, though the ...
Arm's Neoverse will be the infrastructure for a trillion intelligent devices
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 19:30
Arm is introducing something called the Arm Neoverse, a cloud-to-edge infrastructure to support a world with a trillion intelligent devices. I suppose you can call this optimistic brand name the logical extreme of the in...
Travelex Pay's new gift card service lets WeChat users from China shop in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 15:00
London-based Travelex today announced a new partnership with gift card startup Swych that will allow Chinese consumers on the WeChat platform to make purchases from retailers in the U.S. The new service is called “Trav...
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen dead at 65
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 02:34
(Reuters) — Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world's biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, his family s...
Cooler Master's analog keypad hits its crowdfunding goal
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 23:31
Analog controls are impossible on keyboards with switches that either on or off. Cooler Master ControlPad could change that with pressure-sensitive keys.
Chrome 70 arrives with option to disable linked sign-ins, PWAs on Windows, and AV1 decoder
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 23:15
Google today launched Chrome 70 with an option to disable linking Google site sign-ins, Progressive Web Apps on Windows, an AV1 decoder, and more.
Why I finally left the Bay Area to work at a Midwest startup
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 21:15
I finally found investors and founders in my home state of Minnesota who had the same "pay it forward" mentality as startup folks in the Bay Area.
Facebook reportedly plans to release a TV camera device in spring 2019
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 20:44
Facebook is reportedly planning to release a device that works with televisions that can stream video from services like YouTube and comes equipped with a camera for video calls, people familiar with the matter told Ched...
PlayStation Network is down -- Sony engineers are working on a fix
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 20:39
PlayStation Network is down for a significant number of PlayStation owners. Sony has confirmed the outage, and fans are complaining about “PSN down” on social media. The publisher says it has people working to get th...
SoftBank believes 1 trillion connected devices will create $11 trillion in value by 2025
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 20:15
SoftBank Group chief operating officer Marcelo Claure said that a trillion connected devices on the internet of things will generate $11 trillion in value by 2025. That assumes that about 100 IoT devices — which are ev...
The Next WeChat? Humaniq app as a service-hub for Africa's entrepreneurs
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 20:05
SPONSORED: Presented by Humaniq In a crowded app marketplace, the most successful are service-hubs: from Google and Facebook, to WeChat in China, the most-downloaded apps offer a raft of offerings from different business...
Dead by Daylight maker Behaviour Interactive gets 20% investment from Gaea
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 19:45
China’s Gaea Interactive Entertainment has acquired a 20 percent stake in Canada’s Behaviour Interactive, the maker of the popular Dead by Daylight horror game. Montreal-based Behaviour and Beijing-based Gaea have a ...
Pokémon Go gets creatures from the Sinnoh region
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 19:15
Niantic has announced this morning that Pokémon originally discovered in the Sinnoh region, featured in Pokémon Diamond, Pokémon Pearl, and Pokémon Platinum, will soon begin to arrive to Pokémon Go. Last month, thir...
GitHub launches Actions to execute code in containers and security alerts for Java and .NET projects
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 19:00
The GitHub code repository, which has been used by 31 million developers around the world in the past year, today announced a sweeping series of changes, including Actions, a new way for developers to automate workflows ...
Sixense will refund its VR controller backers, switch to enterprise
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 19:00
EXCLUSIVE: Sixense pioneered hand controllers for virtual reality applications in 2013, but the company hasn’t been able to produce its Stem consumer product for VR. And so the company is announcing today that it will ...
GitHub: Facebook's PyTorch and Microsoft's Azure have the fastest growing open source projects
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 19:00
Microsoft, Facebook, and Google’s TensorFlow maintain open source projects on GitHub with the largest number of contributors, according to the 2018 Octoverse report, a veritable State of the Union address by GitHub for...
Hearthstone's in-game tournaments are on hold so Blizzard doesn't disappoint you
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 18:11
Hearthstone announced a in-game tournaments in February. But on September 18, publisher Blizzard Entertainment revealed that this long-anticipated multiplayer feature was going on hiatus. This surprised the community, es...
Pinterest adds dynamic pricing, product recommendations for style and home decor
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 18:00
Just in time for the holidays, Pinterest is announcing a slew of changes to make it easier for people to shop on its website and mobile app. First up, the company is phasing out its Buyable Pins — pins served up by ret...
Startup Ludenso takes on Magic Leap and HoloLens in augmented reality
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 18:00
Norwegian technology start-up Ludenso (formerly MovieMask) has started a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for its augmented reality glasses for mobile devices, dubbed MagiMask. MagiMask and its tracking system has been ...
DevLab 2018 offers VR/AR artists an incubator and shot at funding
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 17:58
Two years ago, Oculus and VR promoter Kaleidoscope teamed up to create DevLab, an incubator for independent VR projects. Now they’re back to do it again with DevLab 2018, partnering with immersive mixed reality studio ...
Analogue's Mega Sg plays every old Sega cartridge in 1080p
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 17:00
One of the hottest names in retro-gaming hardware is returning, and this time it is taking on Sega. After making the excellent Super Nt Super Nintendo clone, Analogue is now preparing to launch the Mega Sg. This is a new...
Huawei launches the Watch GT without Android Wear OS and the Band Pro 3 wristband
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2018 16:29
Amidst all the hullabaloo around its AI-infused Mate 20 series smartphones, Huawei actually announced another product today. The Chinese technology giant unveiled the Huawei Watch GT, the follow-up to the 2015 Huawei Wat...