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Sentons teams up with Foxconn to create virtual buttons for smartphones
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 17:00
Sentons has teamed up with global contract manufacturer Foxconn to create virtual buttons for smartphones and other devices.
Twitter debuts 'manipulated media' tag on Joe Biden video clip that was retweeted by Trump
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 09:17
Twitter has used its new "manipulated media" label for the first time on a video clip of Joe Biden that was retweeted by Donald Trump.
State Of Women And Entrepreneurship 2020: Here's What You Need To Know
Forbes - 10 Mar 2020 23:13
Women are making incredible strides in the field of entrepreneurship, but there are still stumbling blocks that we continue to face. These issues, as well as the progress we've made, are detailed in the initial findings ...
Microsoft researchers create AI ethics checklist with ML practitioners from a dozen tech companies
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 22:21
Researchers focused on fairness at Microsoft designed the AI ethics checklist with input from machine learning engineers at a dozen tech companies.
Is Inter-Company Automation The Next Frontier For AI? That's What Backbone AI, A New Startup, Believes.
Forbes - 10 Mar 2020 21:47
BackboneAI is designed to fill the need for automation between companies, a distinct approach from other solutions that focus on AI within a company or between a company and its customers. The startup was founded by Rob ...
Facebook's RIDE encourages AI agents to explore their environments
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 21:45
Facebook's RIDE, a novel intrinsic reward method, encourages machine learning-driven agents to explore their surroundings.
Can Traceable Footwear Change The Fashion Industry's Attitude Towards Leather?
Forbes - 10 Mar 2020 21:21
The founder of a company that's created traceable leather footwear is hoping her invention will help improve animal welfare across the globe and change attitudes towards leather.
Baldur's Gate III -- Goblins are friends, not fodder
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 21:07
Baldur's Gate III senior writer Adam Smith lays out how Larian Studios is trying to give depth to many of the characters you encounter -- even goblins.
Google's AI trains state-of-the-art language models using less compute and data
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 20:06
Google open-sourced ELECTRA, a language model pre-training technique that achieves state-of-the-art results with less compute on benchmarks like GLUE.
Israel's Toya creates social games for girls on Roblox
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 19:15
Toya is a game studio that makes social games on top of Roblox, but it is different because it is making games that are targeted at girls and young women.
Nreal unveils all-in-one Light enterprise AR headset for Q4 2020
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 18:00
The ultra-light consumer AR wearable will get an all-in-one companion model for enterprise users by the end of 2020, competing with HoloLens and Magic Leap.
Organizational Agility And Resilience- Two Critical Sides Of The Same Coin
Forbes - 10 Mar 2020 17:31
This dynamic has seen the rise of brands like Amazon/Whole Foods, Netflix, and Uber as well as the demise of others like Kodak who failed to see and respond quickly enough to changes in the market.
Sony confirms Horizon: Zero Dawn is coming to PC
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 17:21
Horizon: Zero Dawn is launching on PC in the summer of 2020. This will give Sony more revenue and a way to introduce more players to the franchise.
Annapurna partners with Sayonara Wild Hearts dev Simogo Forge
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 17:00
Annapurna Interactive announced today that it has entered a new multi-year publishing deal with Simogo Forge, the developer behind Sayonara Wild Hearts.
Amazon's AI predicts product quality from customer feedback
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 16:20
In a new study, a team of Amazon researchers used crowdsourcing to identify product data that could be used to predict human judgments of quality.
Promethean AI lets neophytes use their voice to create amazing game environments in minutes
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 16:15
Promethean AI enables people with no programming or digital art experience to create amazing game environments with voice commands.
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection debuts on Steam and Origin on June 5
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 16:00
It's retro time. Electronic Arts announced that the classic Command & Conquer Remastered Collection debuts on Steam and Origin on June 5.
Meet America's Best Startup Employers 2020
Forbes - 10 Mar 2020 15:40
If you'd rather take a risk and join a budding business than be bound to the rungs of the corporate ladder, startup life may be right for you. But when your potential employer hasn't existed for more than a few years, ho...
How to protect your small business in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak
CNBC - 10 Mar 2020 15:26
It's not too late for small- and medium-sized businesses to set up remote workforces, communicate with staff and prepare for a worsening coronavirus outbreak.
Why male entrepreneurs in the US make double their female counterparts
CNBC - 10 Mar 2020 15:17
Male-owned businesses have annual revenues that are double that of their female counterparts, a national study of 30,000 businesses by Biz2Credit reveals.
Zynga cofounder builds Gala network for decentralized gaming
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 15:15
Blockchain Game Partners is making blockchain-based Gala to enable games where players own their wares and platforms don't fleece developers.
Firefox 74 arrives with stricter add-on rules, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 disabled
Venture Beat - 10 Mar 2020 15:00
Mozilla today launched Firefox 74 with stricter rules for add-ons, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 disabled by default, and a handful of developer features.