Nvidia is announcing today that it is going to supersize PC gaming with a new breed of Big Format Gaming Displays — or BFGDs. Nvidia is helping hardware partners Acer, Asus, and HP to integrate a high-end 65-inch, 4K, 120Hz HDR display with Nvidia’s G-Sync technology and the Nvid … | Continue reading
Samsung is going after Google and Microsoft with a new display that’s supposed to help people work together. The Flip is a digital whiteboard that’s supposed to connect to a wide variety of different devices and provide users with a collaboration space that they can use to discus … | Continue reading
Intel disclosed more details of how it will combine its new 8th-generation Core H mobile processors with a semi-custom Radeon Graphics chip from rival Advanced Micro Devices in a way that enables computer makers to create smaller and faster laptops. Dell and HP are the first comp … | Continue reading
Medical giant Omron Healthcare is showing off a blood pressure monitor that you can wear as a wristwatch and that can deliver clinically validated accuracy. The Japanese company has also created a digital platform to track and store heart health data and easily share it with your … | Continue reading
Bescent is announcing that it will launch Disney and Universal-licensed alarm clocks for kids. That may sound mundane, but these olfactory alarm clocks will wake you up with smells instead of sounds. The French company is also unveiling Oria, a new product that will be available … | Continue reading
GUEST: I’ve been posting annual predictions on VentureBeat every year for the past 10 years, and I’m embarassed to say that I missed the mark badly on a couple of my predictions for last year. With the Internet of Things heating up and autonomous vehicles emerging, I thought we’d … | Continue reading
GUEST: Unregulated initial coin offerings (ICOs) stormed onto the scene in 2016 and early 2017, raising the collective eyebrows of the entrenched VC community. It was in this context that SAFTs, simple agreements for future tokens, were introduced. SAFTs have been hailed in the U … | Continue reading
Pimax’s anticipated 8K VR headset will not be shipping to Kickstarter backers this month or next. The device, which raised over $4 million in crowd-funding last year, was originally estimated by the company to start shipping in December, with a basic package consisting of just th … | Continue reading
Oculus promised that its new standalone headset, Oculus Go, would be here in early 2018 and, well, it’s early 2018. While we don’t have official details on the headset’s launch just yet, an FCC listing for it does hint at something interesting. The listing, first spotted by Germa … | Continue reading
Health tech company RightEye is debuting its new EyeQ vision tests at the Consumer Electronics Show industry event this week. Its cloud-based software is platform agnostic and can be used with any type of eye-tracking technology. However, it also partnered with Tobii to develop d … | Continue reading
Friendship ended with 2017. Now 2018 is my best friend, and it’s time to look at its games. On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, we pick out the five biggest upcoming releases that you should get excited about. Hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti also talk about their holid … | Continue reading
GUEST: In 2017, my team powered chatbots and voice skills for leading brands like Nike, Vice, Jameson, Marriott Rewards, Simon, Gatorade, and more. We witnessed new user behaviors and uncovered an evolved set of best practices to build a chatbot. Here are four actionable learning … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: WiZ Connected Light, the leading innovator of smart lighting technology, today announced the new Scheduled Presets function enabling your smart lights to know your regular activity level throughout the day and night, automatically providing... | Continue reading
GUEST: Most articles written about startup scenes outside of the coasts use the phrase “the next Silicon Valley.” As in, St. Louis or Pittsburgh is poised to be the “next Silicon Valley.” But do these cities really want to be the next Silicon Valley? It’s a serious question. Whil … | Continue reading
Digital Dreams Entertainment LLC announced today that Mutant Football League is launching for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on January 19. The unique take on digital football came out for PC via Steam in October. It only has under 10,000 players on that platform, according to SteamS … | Continue reading
Google Assistant is now available on 400 million devices, including more than 6 million Home smart speakers sold since the Home Mini first became available last October. “All told, Google Home usage increased 9X this holiday season over last year’s, as you controlled more smart d … | Continue reading
Blockchain company Ripple has been making headlines after its cryptocurrency, XRP, saw a 15x value gain in just three weeks following almost five years of no growth. Ripple cofounder Chris Larsen even briefly passed Mark Zuckerberg in net worth earlier this week, according to For … | Continue reading
OPINION: Mark Zuckerberg has been publicly announcing his personal challenges for each year since 2009. For 2018, his 10th challenge is to work on Facebook’s various issues. In other words, Zuckerberg’s 2018 personal challenge isn’t so personal at all: It’s to do his job as Faceb … | Continue reading
Blizzard released a new patch late yesterday for Overwatch’s Public Test Realm, which is where the studio tries out changes to the team-based shooter before making them official. The update weakens two of Overwatch’s most powerful characters, the healer Mercy and the bomb-chuckin … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Immusoft Corporation, a Seattle, Wash.-based gene therapy company, announced today it has closed a $3M initial tranche of a Series B financing. The full Series B is underway. The round is expected to provide Immusoft the funding it needs... | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: It’s been a big week for Spotify as reports emerged that the music-streaming behemoth has confidentially filed IPO documents ahead of a planned direct stock exchange listing in the first half of 2018. While Spotify hasn’t commented on the reports — which suggests that t … | Continue reading
It’s fitting that our strategy game of the year comes from one of the most important publishers on the PC. Steel Division: Normandy ’44 tops our list of the best strategy games of the year. It’s a worthy choice, and it showcases Paradox Interactive‘s approach to publishing on the … | Continue reading
Chambara embodies stark beauty with its stylish landscapes full of brilliant gem tones or simple blacks and whites. But its colors aren’t just there for visual effect. It’s a split-screen local multiplayer game where you must elude your enemies, camouflage by changing colors, and … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Phone2Action, a digital advocacy platform that connects citizens to lawmakers, and Community Brands, a technology-driven company that delivers purpose-built solutions to the world's leading associations and nonprofits, have joined... | Continue reading
Following up on yesterday’s confirmation that security exploits can compromise computers with Intel processors, Intel today announced a timetable for updates to render recent computers “immune” to the exploits, now referred to as Spectre and Meltdown. It also provided some guidan … | Continue reading
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve been to the Consumer Electronics Show, but I’m into my third decade for the big tech trade show. This year, I’m going to walk miles of exhibits again at CES 2018, the gigantic tech trade show in Las Vegas next week. This is my usual story that … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — India on Thursday began investigating a report that access to its database of the identity details of more than 1 billion citizens was being sold for just $8 on social media, in what could be one of the giant program’s biggest security breaches. The Tribune newspaper … | Continue reading
Amazon’s Alexa and ChargePoint, maker of hardware for electric vehicle charging at home and at stations around the world, have announced an integration that allows users of the AI assistant to charge their vehicle with their voice. With Alexa, ChargePoint Home users can turn the … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Xcell Biosciences announced today that it has expanded its development and commercial efforts around new market opportunities in immunotherapy drug research and development. The ever-growing Immuno-Oncology landscape and demonstrated... | Continue reading
(Reuters) — A British mobile advertising agency has sued Uber to force the ride-hailing company to pay millions of dollars of bills that Uber had refused to pay after claiming that ads being generated were fraudulent. Fetch Media filed its lawsuit on Tuesday in the same Californi … | Continue reading
GUEST: From Microsoft’s accidentally racist bot to Inspirobot’s dark memes, AI often wanders into transgressive territories. Why does this happen, and can we stop it? In science fiction, artificial intelligence is often characterized by amoral villainy. From 2001: A Space Odyssey … | Continue reading
For those who work for several gig economy platforms, like Uber, Airbnb or Turo, keeping track of earnings can be overwhelming when they are coming from so many different companies. Calculating tax rates on those earnings and filing them correctly can be even more daunting. That’ … | Continue reading
GUEST: If you’ve just unwrapped an Amazon Echo hub, now is the perfect time to connect it and its digital voice assistant, Alexa, to your home security system. With a two-year head start over the rest of the digital assistant market, Alexa’s repertoire of skills and compatible pr … | Continue reading
Nexon America announced today that Hyper Universe will be leaving Early Access and will officially launch for Steam on January 17. The game will be free-to-play. Hyper Universe is a team-based 2D brawler that borrows elements from multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBAs), like ba … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Critical Diagnostics, makers of the Presage® ST2 Assay and ASPECT-PLUSTM ST2 Test, both used to help physicians in the management of heart failure patients, today announced it completed an $8.5 million equity financing from... | Continue reading
I’m heading to CES 2018, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas next week. And there’s one gadget that I wish I had. Travelmate Robotics will show off its autonomous suitcase, which is a robot on wheels that will follow you around. Travelmate Robotics developed the suitcase in … | Continue reading
BlackBerry and Baidu have announced a collaboration that will see the Canadian and Chinese companies team up on a number of connected and autonomous vehicle projects. The duo have signed a “statement of intent” to make BlackBerry’s QNX operating system the basis for Baidu’s previ … | Continue reading
2017 was crazy year, and it seems we spent most of it searching for any possible distraction from reality, according to an annual ranking of the most-read articles on Wikipedia. Certainly the Top 50 report is filled with newsmakers. President Trump ranks second, though his views … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — A U.S. government panel rejected Ant Financial’s acquisition of U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International over national security concerns, the companies said on Tuesday, the most high-profile Chinese deal to be torpedoed under the administration of U.S. Pres … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Force Protection Video Equipment (OTCQB:FPVD) announced today that it has recorded record revenues for the third quarter and year to date over 2016. The introduction of specialized video surveillance cameras to our product... | Continue reading
The Cree will become one of their new playable factions in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall, the first expansion for the PC strategy game. Rise and Fall is coming out on February 6. The majority of the Native North Americans live Canada. Poundmaker, who was chief of the Cree in the … | Continue reading
Israeli biotech startup SuperMeat has announced a $3 million seed funding round to help bring its lab-grown meat products to market. Founded out of Tel Aviv in 2015, SuperMeat is one of a number of lab-made meat startups seeking to capitalize on the burgeoning sustainable food se … | Continue reading
Samsung has given a glimpse of three new projects that are brewing in its in-house incubator program. The Korean electronics giant will officially showcase the products at CES 2018 in Las Vegas next week, but for now the company has revealed some details of what’s been cooking in … | Continue reading
“The Simpsons” has had a lot of great moments, but my favorite came when Principal Skinner hosted Superintendent Chalmers for lunch and hell broke loose. Now this segment has become something of a meme, with YouTubers trying to outdo each other by making the scene even more ridic … | Continue reading
(Reuters) Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants like Google and Facebook unless they do more to combat online extremism by taking down material aimed at radicalizing people or helping them to prepare attacks, the country’s security minister said. Ben Wallace accused tech f … | Continue reading
WhatsApp went down in several parts of the world today including parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. The crowdsourced website DownDetector found the largest concentration of outages in portions of England, Germany, and virtually all of the Netherlands, as well as parts of I … | Continue reading
2017 is wrapping up and so reflect we must on the year that was. By now you’ve hopefully seen our extensive list of nominees for our Best of 2017 awards, which we think do a pretty great job of representing the VR industry in 2017. But, as with any medium, there are a handful of … | Continue reading
Rusel Demaria is interested in the history of games, and he doesn’t want it to slip away from us. Demaria wrote High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, published in 2002. And now he’s back with 800 pages of additional reading. Demaria interviewed scores of former … | Continue reading