I got a blast of sound from Razer‘s new line of audio immersion Nommo and Nommo Pro speakers. The company demoed them at CES 2018, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The speakers are designed to give you spatial sound for movies, music, and games. The whole point is … | Continue reading
Comcast brings internet or cable TV services to 29 million customers, and now it wants to offer many of them home automation services, too. The media company knows that the internet of things, or making everyday objects smart and connected, is on a growth path. By adding these se … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: YieldStreet, the alternative investment platform working to change the way wealth is created, today announced that it has closed a $113 million financing round. The round includes $12.8 million of Series A equity financing co-led... | Continue reading
It’s well-known that San Jose and San Francisco are home to high numbers of professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math. But, being able to network with other people in these fields isn’t the only consideration a STEM professional might make when deciding where to … | Continue reading
Fledgling fintech startup Petal has raised $13 million in a series A round of funding led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. Other participatory investors include Third Prime Capital, RiverPark Ventures, The Social Entrepreneurs’ Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Afore Capital, Rosec … | Continue reading
Tableau announced today that its new Hyper data engine is generally available to customers, providing a massive speed boost for existing processes through the company’s business intelligence and analysis software. On top of that, the company also announced the general availabilit … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: The Christ Hospital, Lindner Research Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, enrolled the first patient in Svelte Medical System's OPTIMIZE clinical study, designed to further assess the safety and effectiveness of the Svelte Drug-Eluting Stent... | Continue reading
SteelSeries continues to go after competitive gamers and esports athletes with its PC gaming mice. The company is revealing its Rival 600 with a couple of sensors that could make or break a competitive match. Esports could be a $2.5 billion market by 2020, according to market res … | Continue reading
Tactical Monsters: Rumble Arena is an ideal game for mobile platforms, so it makes sense that this turn-based tactical game is jumping from Steam and Android to iOS on January 25. From Carmex Games (the studio behind Heroes Tactics), Tactical Monsters is all about collecting unit … | Continue reading
GUEST: January is basically an entire month of “the Mondays.” The holidays are over, you’re back at work, it’s still cold and dark, and you’re left with nothing but a slight deficit in your bank account and a little extra belly fat. Ugh. Holiday weight gain affects plenty of peop … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they will force a vote later this year on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s reversal of landmark Obama administration net neutrality rules and will try to make it a key issue in the 2018 congressional elections. Senate … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Incorporating location intelligence into digital strategies can engage consumers in real time, increase brand loyalty, and provide actionable data. Learn how to captivate customers and prospects with location-based behavioral data when you join this VB Live event. Regist … | Continue reading
GUEST: A few months back, I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the VentureBeat Summit, which gathers senior leaders across various industries to discuss the emerging technologies disrupting the global business agenda. The theme of this year’s summit was “Riding the AI … | Continue reading
As Dungeons & Dragons continues to hack its way through the jungles of Chult as players across the world seek to stop the evil lich Acererak in the Tomb of Annihilation storyline, adventurers in the Neverwinter are approaching the end game. And Cryptic Studios is ready for them. … | Continue reading
At CES 2018 in Las Vegas today, Lenovo unveiled the world’s first standalone Daydream VR headset: Lenovo Mirage Solo. The device does not require being tethered to a PC via a wire like powerful VR headsets (HTC Vive and Oculus Rift) but also does not require a phone like cheap VR … | Continue reading
If you hate cords and hate recharging batteries, Razer wants to introduce you to its Razer Mamba HyperFlux mouse and its Firefly HyperFlux mouse mat. This is the company’s new wireless mouse and powered mouse pad. With the HyperFlux tech, the mouse runs completely off the power t … | Continue reading
The big trend in portable batteries at 2018’s CES is actually years in the making: consolidation. Thanks to both battery engineering improvements and the popularity of USB-C, it’s finally possible to carry a single battery pack with the ability to recharge your phone, headphones, … | Continue reading
If you plan on watching the Overwatch League when its inaugural season kicks off Wednesday, you’d better be sure to tune into one place — and it’s not CBS or ESPN. It’s Twitch. The livestreaming company announced today that it’ll broadcast every match of the Overwatch League. It … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced today that companies like Qualcomm are creating reference designs to encourage hardware makers to integrate AI assistant Cortana into more devices. At the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, Qualcomm also announced plans to make Cortana part of its Smart Audi … | Continue reading
Aromarest wants you to get a better night’s sleep through a combination of colors, scents, and sounds. The company has debuted its sleep gadget, which includes an “insomnia buster” setting, at CES 2018, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. It has rivals such as Bescent … | Continue reading
Ford unveiled a suite of announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show today that are aimed at furthering the company’s ambitions to power smart cities and find new applications for autonomous vehicles. The announcements focus on providing cities with cloud services to better un … | Continue reading
Apple has a response of sorts to activist shareholders concerned about kids’ addiction to iPhones: Enhanced parental controls are coming to iOS. Ahead of Apple’s annual shareholder meeting next month, Jana Partners and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) as … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Tinyclues, provider of a leading artificial intelligence (AI)-first marketing solution, today announced an agreement with British multinational, multichannel retailer, Arcadia Group. As the owner of established and beloved... | Continue reading
August Home today announced a partnership with same-day delivery service Deliv to provide in-home delivery of groceries and packages. The goal of the partnership is to pair Deliv’s services for brands like Nike and Williams & Sonoma with a network of smart home locks made by Augu … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: ObEN Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars, today announced that it has raised $10 million from K11, founded by entrepreneur Adrian Cheng. This strategic funding... | Continue reading
About 90 minutes southwest of Paris, the city of Angers has embarked on an ambitious program to become a model smart city. Almost three years after launching, its efforts are getting another boost thanks to a partnership with the country’s leading startup accelerator. NUMA, based … | Continue reading
Grindr, the LGBTQ social network and dating app, is now 100 percent owned by Chinese mobile gaming company Kunlun Group. The news comes seven months after Grindr revealed it would be selling itself outright to Kunlun. At the time, Grindr said that founder and CEO Joel Simkhai wou … | Continue reading
Intel is partnering with Paramount Pictures to explore the cinematic applications of its volumetric video technology, which it’s previously used to livestream and record virtual reality sports matches. The announcement comes after the company finished construction on Intel Studio … | Continue reading
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich didn’t dodge the embarrassing issue of the Spectre and Meltdown bugs that rocked the whole computer industry in the past week. At his opening keynote at CES 2018, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week, Krzanich addressed the issue at the beginnin … | Continue reading
Sony unveiled a smorgasbord of gizmos at its Consumer Electronics Show keynote today, including new TVs, wireless headphones, and speakers. These gadgets, introduced by company CEO Kazuo Hirai, were largely incremental improvements on the company’s existing product lines. The coo … | Continue reading
Sony said it sold more than 5.9 million PlayStation 4 during the 2017 holiday season, bringing total sales of its home console to 73.6 million since 2013. That makes Sony the leader for this generation of game consoles, as it has outsold Microsoft by more than 2-to-1, and Nintend … | Continue reading
Qualcomm launched its mesh networking platform for Internet of Things communication in May 2017. Now the world’s biggest mobile chip designer is expanding the capabilities of mesh networking with voice recognition from Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant. The integration of Cor … | Continue reading
Samsung Electronics wants to seamlessly connect all of the devices in your life, and its strategy to do that is built around a technology dubbed SmartThings, which it views as the remote control for the internet of things, or IoT. IoT, or making everyday objects smart and connect … | Continue reading
Baidu made a set of announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show today that are all aimed at expanding the reach of its Apollo self-driving car software to better serve developers around the globe. The project has now reached its second major iteration, with support out of the … | Continue reading
GUEST: It’s been roughly 100 years since the automobile began to permeate the lives of everyday people. What began as a novelty for the well-heeled became a mainstream phenomenon, thanks to Henry Ford’s innovation in mass production coupled with the economic prosperity of the Roa … | Continue reading
HTC announced today at a press event ahead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show that it’s launching a new browsing experience for its Viveport VR storefront. It’s also rolling out an update for its VR media player Vive Video, including an integration with the video-hosting si … | Continue reading
GE Appliances today revealed its Kitchen Hub, a 27-inch device that replaces the range hood above the oven and stove. When released later this year, in addition to more traditional tasks like ventilation, the Kitchen Hub will control other GE appliances, show your calendar, and p … | Continue reading
If Toyota has its way, the future of Burning Man would be a sea of autonomous, electric mini-buses. The company showed off a new concept vehicle at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show that looks a bit like a rounded shipping container on wheels and is designed to be everything … | Continue reading
Before robots become our overlords, they’ll lull us into complacency by being our servants first. Robots are as big as ever at CES 2018, especially at the press event for LG, the first major electronics and appliance company to hold an event during the CES Media Day. But one of t … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Mimosa Networks (www.mimosa.co) today announced that Brian L. Hinman, the company's President and CEO, will be presenting at the 20th Annual Needham Growth Conference in New York City on January 18th, 2018 at 9:40 am EST. ... | Continue reading
French company Helite is making Hip Air wearable airbags that protect old people from hip injuries if they fall. I thought this was a silly idea at first, but it is addressing a serious problem that afflicts millions of mostly elderly people who get hurt every year from falls. Th … | Continue reading
WaveOptics announced ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) industry event that it’s launching its AR Module Program, giving third-party developers access to its augmented reality waveguides technology. The program is rolling out first to WaveOptics’s clients, primarily ori … | Continue reading
NextVR announced today that it’s improving its virtual reality experiences by adding higher resolution and six degrees of freedom (6DOF). It will roll out 6DOF throughout 2018, first to pre-recorded content and then to streams, which will enable spectators to move around to get a … | Continue reading
Kingston’s gaming brand is growing its product offerings with a new wireless audio headset and new versions of its keyboard and mouse with RGB LED lighting. The HyperX Cloud Flight wireless headset goes on sale this month for $160. The company’s Alloy Elite RGB keyboard will is a … | Continue reading
Amazon’s Alexa will soon be available in the HP Pavilion Wave to do things like play music, control smart home devices, access more than 25,000 Alexa skills, and complete a number of other tasks. Since the PC runs on Windows 10, the Pavilion Wave will be able to speak with both M … | Continue reading
Volkswagen, Uber, Baidu and a raft of other companies all announced commitments today to use Nvidia’s processors to bring autonomous capabilities to the vehicles they build and operate. It’s another win for the chipmaker, which is delivering hardware that already powers intellige … | Continue reading
Advanced Micro Devices had a big comeback year in 2017 with the launch of its Ryzen processors and Vega graphics chips. And today, the company is announcing more heavy-duty computing and graphics chips coming out in 2018. The chips include accelerated processing units (APUs), or … | Continue reading
Nvidia announced a new system on a chip today that’s designed to bring a massive amount of computing power to bear for self-driving car applications. Called the Drive Xavier, each SoC packs a whopping 9 billion transistors with an eight core CPU, a 256-core GPU based on Nvidia’s … | Continue reading