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Vertically Integrated Cannabis Lifestyle Brand Oregrown Raises The Bar For 2020
Forbes - 30 Jan 2020 11:20
Last week, I made my way out to Oregon for the grand opening of the state's newest cannabis retail establishment, the Portland Oregrown Flagship -- an award-winning, vertically integrated cannabis lifestyle brand.
EA beats expectations with $1.98 billion in Q3 revenue as live operations grow
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 23:58
Electronic Arts reported earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, thanks to strong games like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and live operations revenues from existing...
The Sims 4 has reached 20 million players
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 23:30
Electronic Arts revealed as part of their earnings report today that The Sims 4 has reached 20 million unique players worldwide.
DeepMind's MEMO AI solves novel reasoning tasks with less compute
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 22:47
DeepMind's new architecture -- MEMO -- solves novel reasoning tasks with less computation than several baseline AI models.
Overwatch is trying to keep its meta fresh with more frequent changes
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 22:13
Blizzard detailed some changes coming to Overwatch today, and they'll all designed to help the game feel fresh.
Wizards of the Coast's new Archetype Entertainment studio is making a sci-fi RPG
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 20:55
Wizards of the Coast announced today that its new Archetype Entertainment studio in Austin, Texas is working on a multiplatform sci-fi role-playing game. James Ohlen is leading this new studio. Ohlen has worked on landma...
OneWeb readies internet satellites for launch
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 20:35
OneWeb is gearing up to begin the first in a series of regular micro satellite launches throughout 2020, as it plays catchup with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Pokémon Sword and Shield are bigger hits than their predecessors despite all the drama
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 20:30
If you were tuned into Pokémon discourse on places like Twitter or Reddit, you may have thought that Sword and Shield were going to be giant disasters.
Growing Leafy Greens In Massive, Sustainable Greenhouses
Forbes - 30 Jan 2020 20:09
A crop of impact entrepreneurs are stepping up efforts to build massive controlled-environment greenhouses in which to produce fresh veggies and the like. Case in point: Revol Greens.
Facebook Gaming launches tools for streamers to deal with trolls
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 20:00
Facebook is launching a dashboard and toolkit for creators so they can more easily manage their communities, including viewers who don't follow the rules.
5 Big Challenges To Launching A Startup And How To Overcome Them
Forbes - 30 Jan 2020 19:50
There is no single challenge that can stop passionate entrepreneurs from successfully launching a startup. This is not motivational; it is a fact. Here are 5 big challenges faced by most entrepreneurs in the early stages...
Steam is down, so you'll need to work through your backlog another time
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 19:43
Steam is down for most PC players around the world. The issue is preventing users from logging in, buying games, and launching games from their library.
The 5 Best Traits Of Micropreneurs, The Smallest Of Small Business Owners
Forbes - 30 Jan 2020 19:41
Whether you're a micropreneur yourself or thinking about hiring or partnering with one, here are the key traits that make us so successful as entrepreneurs.
GamesBeat Decides 137: Google Stadia is already failing
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 19:13
Google Stadia seems like it is struggling, and the GamesBeat Decides crew doesn't see a future where Google turns things around.
OpenAI goes all-in on Facebook's Pytorch machine learning framework
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 19:00
OpenAI announced that it will adopt Facebook's PyTorch machine learning development framework in the near future, eschewing Google's TensorFlow.
Hatched In College, This 24-Year Old's Venture Is A Head Over Heels Success
Forbes - 30 Jan 2020 18:48
At age twenty, Haley Pavone decided to make a job, rather than take a job, by founding Pashion Footwear while a Sophmore in college.
We All Want To Work For A Great Company. Key Insights On How To Spot An Amazing Company Culture
Forbes - 30 Jan 2020 17:36
Important building blocks of a great company culture.
How To Hack Your Way To A Big Business Idea
Forbes - 30 Jan 2020 17:33
One of the most common and highly publicized Silicon Valley myths is that the most innovative businesses start from an instantaneous moment of experiencing a problem followed by a lightbulb flash where the billion-dollar...
Google researchers release audit framework to close AI accountability gap
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 17:20
At the Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency conference in Barcelona, Google researchers discuss a framework to help companies audit AI systems.
Strategy Analytics: Samsung led 2019 smartphone shipments, Apple won Q4
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 17:18
The world's top three smartphone vendors may be familiar names, but Apple ended the year stronger than expected, while Huawei remained a contender.
Amazon details AI that answers questions more reliably
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 17:15
In a newly published paper, Amazon researchers propose a system that answers questions with high accuracy -- in some cases, higher than state of the art.
Scopely teams up with Hasbro to make Scrabble Go mobile game
Venture Beat - 30 Jan 2020 16:01
Scopely has unveiled that it has teamed up with Hasbro and Mattel to make a new Scrabble mobile game dubbed Scrabble Go. It comes out later this year.