GUEST: Artificial intelligence has long had to manage expectations of its potential benefits versus what it is capable of providing at any point in time. This tension slowed down the overall progress and benefits of AI by introducing skepticism, reducing funding, and limiting ado … | Continue reading
During Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to members of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, the main topic of discussion was regulation. Zuckerberg was asked why Facebook should be trusted to self-regulate, what kind of regulation he would like to see, whether he would be willing t … | Continue reading
Niantic CEO John Hanke summoned up the ghost of Arthur C. Clarke when discussing augmented reality with the famous quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But to get technology to that point, experimentation is necessary — and games are the … | Continue reading
Apple’s new electronic health record feature in iOS 11.3 “might be overhyped,” Politico said today, citing a Capitol Hill briefing by the American Medical Informatics Association. Though at least 39 health systems have already adopted the record-sharing feature, praising its ease … | Continue reading
GUEST: Following the corporate corruption scandals of the early 2000s, then-Securities and Exchange Commission chairman William Donaldson said determining the company’s moral DNA “should be the foundation on which the Board builds a corporate culture based on a philosophy of high … | Continue reading
Giant Enemy Crab’s first-person shooter Due Process is the latest game to join publisher Annapurna Interactive’s roster of indie games. Ten players will face off in teams of 5, but unlike other shooters, it focuses on teamwork as a fundamental component. The game demoed recently … | Continue reading
Phoenix Labs announced today that its multiplayer cooperative game Dauntless will enter open beta on PC on May 24. Dauntless is the studio’s first game, and it has been in a closed beta, which Phoenix Labs says hosted over 100,000 players. More than 700,000 have signed up for the … | Continue reading
Testifying in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Zuckerberg said that a recently announced audit of third-party app developers will possibly take years. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) tried to get Zuckerberg to name an exact deadline for when Facebook would complete … | Continue reading
Google Sheets now supports one of its biggest missing features as part of an update announced today: macros. These short snippets of code allow users to program and complete repetitive tasks on data stored in a spreadsheet, in a manner that retains the service’s multi-user cloud … | Continue reading
While attempting repairs with unofficial parts has always been risky, a new report claims that even genuine Apple replacement screens can cause sensor problems for the latest iPhones — if they’re installed by unauthorized shops. Engadget says that an ambient light sensor failure … | Continue reading
The GamesBeat Decides podcast is coming to you from Boston and the PAX East gaming event to determine what is a core Mario game with a live studio audience. Join GamesBeat PC gaming editor (and No. 1 Mario boy) Jeffrey Grubb and VentureBeat social editor Anthony Agnello as they y … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: DemandJump, the leading marketing Customer Acquisition Platform, announces today the completion of a $6 million Series A financing round. Strategic investors include Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Flyover Capital,... | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Announcing the results of validation tests completed in March 2018, Socrates Health Solutions, Inc, reports that recently completed tests on human subjects have confirmed functionality of the Socrates Noninvasive Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring... | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: INSHUR (www.inshur.com) today announced the initial results of its alliance with Clear Blue Insurance Group and Munich Re Digital Partners. The launch of the entirely digital insurance product aims to service the needs of New York's... | Continue reading
DemandJump, an Indianapolis-based startup that helps companies map their online traffic sources, announced today that it has raised a $6 million series A from investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Austin’s Flyover Capital, and Chicago’s Hyde Park Venture Pa … | Continue reading
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (By Pei Li and Adam Jourdan, Reuters) – In China, a platform for risqué jokes is no laughing matter.tent Toutiao, a hugely popular news and online content portal that is luring investors, was forced to pull its joke sharing “Neihan Duanzi” app, literally meaning … | Continue reading
In an attempt to unify the European Union’s fractured membership around a common digital policy, EU leaders announced a series of measures designed to make Europe more competitive in critical emerging technologies. At the annual Digital Day summit in Brussels, the European Commis … | Continue reading
FEATURE: The decline and fall of scandal-plagued Theranos appears to be reaching its endgame with another round of layoffs as the company fights for its existence. In a staff announcement by once-celebrated founder Elizabeth Holmes reported in detail by her good friends at the Wa … | Continue reading
Eve Online launched back in for PC in 2003, and it’s found a dedicated audience who wants to fly spaceships and deal with the intergalactic politics of megacorps. It even branched into VR with Eve: Valkyrie. But it’s never been small enough to hold in your hand. That’s changing t … | Continue reading
GUEST: 2017 was a year full of surprises for the augmented reality industry. Arguably the single biggest development was the emergence of ARKit for iOS devices and ARCore for Android devices. Digi-Capital forecasts that the install base for mobile AR could hit 900 million by the … | Continue reading
Tencent is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. It got to the point where it owns significant chunks of companies like Fortnite developer Epic, League of Legends studio Riot, and French publisher Ubisoft by bringing new types of games to its domestic Chinese audience … | Continue reading
“Where in the world are the game jobs?” That was the name of talk between James Hursthouse of DigiBC (The Interactive & Digital Media Industry Association of British Columbia) and our own lead reporter, Dean Takahashi, at our GamesBeat Summit 2018 event today in Mill Valley, Cali … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Today’s consumers want financial wellness tools that help them proactively manage their money. Join this VB Live event to learn how the industry’s most innovative companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to build the kind of financial solutio … | Continue reading
Not every developer is willing to commit to creating an entire game based on licensed IP, but Jam City president and chief operating officer Josh Yguado thinks every developer should at least consider incorporating branded events. “As a game developer, it’s something everyone sho … | Continue reading
Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg is facing a barrage of questions as he testifies before the United States Senate today. One of those questions came from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who asked Zuckerberg why Facebook fired Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. Many conside … | Continue reading
Gamergate may have cast a long shadow across the game industry, but thanks to the #metoo and #timesup movements — and a little film called Black Panther — the tide is shifting, according to panelists at today’s GamesBeat Summit in Mill Valley, California. For the first time in ga … | Continue reading
Andrew House is no longer at Sony, but he still thinks that consoles like the PlayStation 4 have big future ahead of them. House spoke for the first time since leaving Sony’s PlayStation group, coming onstage at our GamesBeat Summit 2018 event today in Mill Valley, California. Th … | Continue reading
GUEST: Thanks to smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, having artificial intelligence-powered devices in your home is no longer the novelty it might have been just a few years ago. Reflecting the devices’ growing worldwide adoption, users are increasingly comfortab … | Continue reading
Electronic Arts has a couple of new properties in the works, such as Anthem from BioWare. Another project is in production at EA Motive, which is the studio that industry luminary Jade Raymond is overseeing. During a fireside chat at the GamesBeat Summit in Mill Valley, Californi … | Continue reading
Computer science doesn’t just solve technical issues when it comes to making games. This is one of the many takeaways from the discussion between Improbable chief creative officer Bill Roper and StoryPHORCE CEO and founder Steve Peterson on the future of game design. The two riff … | Continue reading
The Honest Ads Act, a recently introduced piece of legislation that would require large social platforms to keep more diligent records about who is buying political advertisements, now has endorsements from two Silicon Valley giants. Twitter endorsed the Honest Ads Act in a serie … | Continue reading
If you want to check whether your Facebook data was compromised by Cambridge Analytica, this tool will show you whether you, or one of your friends, used the "This Is Your Digital Life" app. | Continue reading
GUEST: In the past four years, a slew of articles have been published comparing the Midwest tech scene to Silicon Valley: in 2014, 2015, 2016, and ending with a recent one from the New York Times. While well-intentioned, these articles all have at their premise the same core elem … | Continue reading
Conductive Ventures announced it has raised a $100 million venture capital fund to invest in enterprise software and hardware companies. The fund is led by experienced venture capitalists Carey Lai and Paul Yeh. The fund has already invested in four startups: Ambiq Micro, CSC Gen … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Womply, the leader in front office software for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced the public launch of Womply Boost, a complete online reputation management system for small businesses in any consumer-facing... | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Today, SEE Forge, creators of FAT FINGER, an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) software company, released "AI Coach", an Artificial Intelligence enhancement that provides field workers and front line employees with real-time... | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Karamba Security, a world-leading provider of end-to-end automotive cybersecurity prevention solutions, today announced that it has secured $10 million of funding from Silicon Valley-based Western Technology Investment (WTI), a... | Continue reading
The Mozilla Foundation today released its inaugural Internet Health Report, which calls for the regulation of tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. The report debuts the same day as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before a gathering of two U.S. Senat … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: San Francisco start-up Directly has raised $20 million in a third round of funding to build its customer service offering for companies leveraging AI and crowd-sourced experts. In an interview today, Directly CEO and co-founder Antony Brydon acknowledges that the field … | Continue reading
Hoping to give Europe’s surging startup ecosystem a shot of adrenaline, the European Union today announced the creation of a massive new funds-of-funds program dubbed VentureEU. So far, the EU has committed $505 million of its own budget to the project, which now faces the challe … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Austin.com, the geo-city, premium domain name is now made available for sale. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180410005701/en/ Austin City Crypto-Currency Token... | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Travel giant Booking.com says with 5 million “reported listings” it now tops Airbnb’s reported 4.5 million. Booking.com also says the number of homes, apartments, and places it lists is 27 percent higher than last year. The announcement is part of the company’s switch … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Expel (https://expel.io), the company that replaces what organizations spend on managed security service providers (MSSPs), announced it has secured $20 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based... | Continue reading
LUXEMBOURG (By Michele Sinner, Reuters) – France is entitled to bring criminal proceedings against local managers of ride-hailing app Uber for running an illegal taxi service, the EU top court ruled on Tuesday, dealing the Silicon Valley start-up another legal setback. The case c … | Continue reading
GUEST: Sony’s PlayStation console brand is still leading when it comes to ad impressions, but Nintendo and King are rising in the ranks. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight mil … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Alphabet’s urban innovation company Sidewalk Labs hopes to break ground on its first ever smart-city project in Toronto in 2020, and begin testing some of the proposed technologies this summer, its chief executive told Reuters. This is the first time a timeline has be … | Continue reading
IBM is launching what it calls a “skinny mainframe” for cloud computing. The system is built around IBM z14 mainframe technology, and it features a 19-inch industry standard, single-frame case design, allowing for easy placement into public cloud data centers and for private clou … | Continue reading
NBCUniversal is interested in creating virtual reality content, but Chris Heatherly, the company’s gaming boss, gave one reason that isn’t a viable strategy yet during a panel today at the GamesBeat Summit in Mill Valley, California. “It isn’t a business yet,” said Heatherly. “Th … | Continue reading