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Restream launches Studio tool and raises $50 million
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 17:52
Restream raised $50 million in a series A funding round, and the company is also launching its Studio tool for its growing audience.
Bitkraft Ventures raises $165 million to invest in games
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 16:00
Bitkraft Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on gaming, esports, and interactive media, has raised $165 million for its fund.
Berbix raises $9 million to verify IDs with AI
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 16:05
Identity verification startup Berbix has raised $9 million in a funding round that will be use to grow its team and customer base.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion launches October 27
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 20:37
The Gamescom opening ceremonies revealed that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is launching on October 27.
ACTO raises $11.5 million to bolster life sciences sales with AI
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 15:00
ACTO, a startup using AI-powered mobile experiences to educate stakeholders in life sciences, today closed an $11.5 million funding round.
Jurassic World: Evolution stomps onto Switch on November 3
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 23:00
Jurassic World: Evolution Comlete Edition is getting a Switch port on November 3, the Frontier Developments game studio announced today.
Terahertz tech is the next big thing in wireless -- but what is it?
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 22:50
"Tremendously high frequency" terahertz technologies are the next frontier in wireless communications. But what do submillimeter waves bring to the table?
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond will launch in holidays with single-player and multiplayer VR
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 21:44
Respawn Entertainment unveiled the latest gameplay of Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, a big-budget virtual reality game.
The Sims 4 is taking a trip to Disney's Star Wars theme park land
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 21:06
Here's a crossover few thought would happen. On September 8, The Sims 4 is getting the Journey to Batuu content pack.
Next Dragon Age is still early in development
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 20:32
The next Dragon Age showed up during today's Gamescom opening ceremonies, but we didn't see much.
Doom Eternal expansion The Ancient Gods Part One arrives October 20
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 20:25
Bethesda and id Software announced that the first single-player campaign expansion will be The Ancient Gods Part One, and it will debut on October 20.
The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 19:48
A federal agency is creating the ASAPS data set to train AI to detect police, fire, and medical emergencies in social media and camera footage.
Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment will shut down and put its wares into storage
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 17:30
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) in Oakland, California, will shut down in its current location and move all of its belongings to storage.
5 Questions With Legacy Canadian Cannabis Farmer Marc Geen
Forbes - 27 Aug 2020 22:20Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will release in PS5's 'launch window'
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 22:01
We got to see more of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart for PlayStation 5 during Gamescom's opening event.
Google researchers investigate how transfer learning works
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 21:55
In a recent paper, researchers at Google investigated the reasons why transfer learning is -- and sometimes isn't -- successful.
Fall Guys Season 2 gets new medieval games and cosmetics
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 21:41
Fall Guys: Season 2 is launching soon with a medieval theme. It will include new castle stages and wizard and knight cosmetics.
Behind The Curtain--Chapter 11 From The Inside--Chapter 6--Financial Information
Forbes - 27 Aug 2020 20:04Move.ai enables AI motion capture without the hassle for video game production
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 19:15
Move.ai can use artificial intelligence to capture a 3D representation of an actor in a process known as markerless motion capture.
Steam chat tool removes slurs, but it should remove the slur users
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 19:00
Steam is getting a new Steamlabs experiment called Chat Filtering that empowers people to block words that they don't want to see. But will that help?
Autonomous aircraft startup Reliable Robotics emerges from stealth with $33.5 million
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 15:50
Reliable Robotics, a startup developing autonomous flight technologies, raised $33.5 million in venture capital after successfully completing test flights.
PopID's face-based payments pose privacy and security risks
Venture Beat - 27 Aug 2020 15:30
PopID, a face-based payments tech vendor intent on expanding across the U.S., has problematic privacy and security policies.