Google today released a tool that converts Apple’s Core ML .mlmodel file format into .tflite for use with TensorFlow Lite, a version of Google’s open source program for the training and implementation of AI models. The converter was made in collaboration with Apple, according to … | Continue reading
At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit in Maui today, Microsoft and Qualcomm announced Always Connected PCs: Windows 10 computers that can turn on instantly, offer built-in LTE connectivity, and feature battery life measured not in hours but in days. Partners Asus and HP announce … | Continue reading
Drift today launched the Drift Platform to give developers tools to make Drift bots for marketing and sales. Companies have been able to deploy their own templated Drift bots for some time now, but the Drift Platform gives developers and businesses using Drift the ability to make … | Continue reading
Pinterest today launched its first Facebook Messenger bot to power Pin searches, as well as a chat extension to power collaborative visual search inside one of the most popular chat apps on the planet. Starting today, any pin shared from Pinterest to Messenger will automatically … | Continue reading
The past year has been marked by activism across the U.S., with massive marches in major and mid-sized cities to protest issues from health care to immigration. But the engagement that has emerged hasn’t stopped with political causes. Consumers are asking for more from brands the … | Continue reading
GamesBeat doesn’t have a great reputation when it comes to being good at Cuphead (even though I beat it just fine when I was reviewing it). But we really do quite like the challenging side-scroller, and that adoration extends to the run-‘n’-gunner’s soundtrack. The original tunes … | Continue reading
Anki is releasing a major free update for Cozmo, the funny robot that has been one of the hot toys in 2017. The Cozmo Code Lab debuted earlier this year, but now the lab is getting an update that will help it live up to the dream of enabling a wider variety of people to […] | Continue reading
Google’s Sheets spreadsheet application gained a number of new features aimed at making pivot tables, a powerful data analysis tool, more accessible. Users will be able to get recommendations from Sheets’ Explore tab that aim to answer questions about the data fed into the progra … | Continue reading
Google announced today that its Cloud Video Intelligence API is generally available, along with a new Content Classification feature for its Cloud Natural Language API. The updates are aimed at giving customers new capabilities for making their applications smarter using prebuilt … | Continue reading
Kasten is a new startup that emerged from stealth today aiming to help companies better manage their data in an era of containerized applications. While software containers are great at providing a portable, isolated, and lightweight execution environment for applications, they’r … | Continue reading
Atlassian updated its Bitbucket source control software today with a new feature that’s designed to help companies keep track of all the different changes they’ve made to applications managed with it. The new Deploy feature will keep track of what changes people made when, and ho … | Continue reading
Instagram today introduced two new features that allow users to save and share their Stories after they have been live for 24 hours. As part of today’s release of version 25 of Instagram app, groups of Stories, called Highlights, can be made by visiting a new section of your prof … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Presented by Nvidia If culture is a set of beliefs and behaviors that people pass from one generation to another, then is artificial intelligence becoming one? AI is certainly changing how people think about and interact with technology. Talking to your phone and expec … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: MyVR today announced that it has raised $6.1 million to expand its multichannel property management platform. The company is focused on serving Airbnb hosts and property managers who handle up to roughly 20 properties. MyVR’s software places listings on popular sites l … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Sonim Technologies, maker of the world's toughest cell phones, today announced it has raised $37 million in capital from B. Riley Financial, Inc., a diversified financial services company, through its operating subsidiaries B.... | Continue reading
FEATURE: Six weeks ago, Assa Abloy announced it was buying San Francisco-based smart lock company August Home. Today, that deal has closed, and August is now officially owned by the Swedish lock giant. Stockholm-based Assa Abloy was founded in 1994 and today is among the world’s … | Continue reading
Earny, an app that claims to save users more than $400 a year, today announced that it has raised $9 million to double the size of its team and expand its savings tracking tool beyond ecommerce to travel. The price protection policies of some large retail companies compensate cus … | Continue reading
Financial software giant Intuit has announced plans to acquire TSheets, the company behind the eponymous time-tracking and employee scheduling app, in an all-cash deal valued at around $340 million. Founded out of Idaho in 2006, TSheets’ cross-platform app enables employees to cl … | Continue reading
High Fidelity is unveiling Avatar Island, a virtual reality domain where users can buy and sell items based on a blockchain service. The move paves the way for buying and selling user-generated virtual goods, similar to what Rosedale made possible with Second Life, the virtual wo … | Continue reading
Industrial drone platform provider Kespry has raised $31 million in a series C round of funding led by G2VP, with participation from Cisco Investments, Shell Technology Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, DCM Ventures, Spectrum 28, and H. Barton Asset Management. Founded out o … | Continue reading
IBM has unveiled its Power Systems Servers, the latest computers for artificial intelligence processing in datacenters. The new servers are powered by the IBM Power9 processor, which was designed for compute-intensive AI workloads. It’s one more sign that server companies and chi … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Presented by Intel When The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt launched in 2015, its stunning, well-realized world, rich characters, and compelling quests led to it being hailed as one of the greatest RPGs of all time, but nestled inside Geralt’s epic adventure was an entirely … | Continue reading
In this age of machine-learning-artificial-intelligence-driven blah blah blah, the folks at YouTube have decided that to win the battle against violent and racist content they must rely more on good old-fashioned human beings. In a pair of blog posts today, the company elaborated … | Continue reading
Whether the November launch of the iPhone X was a strategic decision or driven by manufacturing issues, Apple took a huge gamble this year by deviating from its rhythm of releasing the new flagship in late September. The move was further complicated by the company’s decision to r … | Continue reading
It may be little surprise, but Spotify has announced tha Ed Sheeran is its most streamed artist of 2017. The news comes in the same year as the British singer-songwriter was revealed as the streaming giant’s biggest artist internationally in terms of global monthly listeners, and … | Continue reading
Nvidia is launching its Shield TV set-top box in the Chinese market. And the gaming-focused device will come with remastered versions of Nintendo titles from the earlier Wii and GameCube platforms. Some of the Nintendo titles that will be available for the first time in China (at … | Continue reading
Steve Case, the cofounder and AOL and the creator of a series of tours called Rise of the Rest that highlight startup activity in places outside of Silicon Valley, has secured $150 million for a new venture capital fund. Also called Rise of the Rest, this fund will invest in star … | Continue reading
Billion-dollar game deals are pretty rare, but one slipped by last week without much attention. Australian gambling machine maker Aristocrat Leisure announced last week it is buying social casino games maker Big Fish Games in Seattle for $990 million. It was the second deal in a … | Continue reading
Five Nights at Freddy’s has always been about murderous animatronics and jump scares — but what about the pizza? You can’t have a cursed Chuck E. Cheese’s-like restaurant without pizza. Today, developer Scott Cawthon stealth-opened the doors to his newest horror game: Freddy Fazb … | Continue reading
In terms of big, anticipated video game releases, 2017 is over for most people. But I’m personally looking forward to the launch of Tiny Metal, which is a turned-based military tactics game that has a lot in common with Nintendo’s Advance Wars games. What’s especially interesting … | Continue reading
GUEST: If you’re following the crypto space, you’ve probably heard about CryptoKitties over the last week. The Ethereum-based cat-trading game launched last week and quickly became the highest spender of gas, bringing Ethereum to a new all-time high number of transactions. Curren … | Continue reading
GUEST: The Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) announced today a new partnership with Raytheon, an innovator in the cybersecurity space, to further the organization’s objective to encourage young women to develop skills in science, technology, engineering, and math, aka STEM. The pair … | Continue reading
Capcom revealed during a 30th anniversary event streamed on Twitch today that Mega Man Legacy Collection and Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 are coming to the Nintendo Switch next year. The first Legacy Collection contains Mega Man through Mega Man 6, while the second includes Mega … | Continue reading
Capcom revealed that Mega Man 11 is coming in late 2018 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. This is the first major Mega Man game since Mega Man 10 came out in 2010. The new game retains the 2D sidescrolling action of its predecessors, but it uses 3D character models. Th … | Continue reading
Sometimes karma arrives in the form of an all-knowing hoofed deity. The Deer God passes judgment on a hunter who accidentally kills a fawn. In retribution, he is reborn as one of the woodland creatures he used to hunt. Developer Blowfish Studios is launching it on the Nintendo Sw … | Continue reading
Electronic Arts removed real-money transactions from Star Wars: Battlefront II, but the publisher’s sci-fi online shooter’s multiplayer progression is still a bummer. But now, as part of previously promised changes, developer DICE is updating how matches award in-game currency an … | Continue reading
Funforge announced today that its board game Tokaido is now available on PC via Steam. It costs $10. It’s the latest in a steady beat of board game adaptations to hit Steam, such as Tomb of Annihilation. Tokaido has players walking a road in ancient Japan. The physical version ha … | Continue reading
Indie developer Jason Roberts’ esoteric hand-drawn puzzle game Gorogoa has been an intriguing enigma. It’s been in development for over five years, surfacing every so often with a teaser to show off its novel mechanics, which are based on comic book panels. The wait is over on De … | Continue reading
Nvidia released a tool today that’s designed to help developers and data scientists build and test machine learning systems on their personal computers before moving to production on a more powerful machine. The Nvidia GPU Cloud provides researchers with software containers that … | Continue reading
Amazon-owned online movie database IMDb has launched its first standalone mobile app for Pro subscribers. While IMDb is the go-to platform for millions of movie geeks on the web and through native mobile apps, one of the ways it makes money is through its IMDbPro subscription ser … | Continue reading
While many city and state leaders have sought to make their community a tech hub by importing companies that will bring tech jobs, like Foxconn or Amazon, there are a host of other factors that determine whether or not children in communities across the U.S. are likely to pursue … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility and digital applications company, today announced the appointment of Kathy Crusco as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Kathy is Austin-based and will assume her duties... | Continue reading
With more than one billion users, Facebook’s Messenger app requires little introduction for most people reading this. But the technology giant today announced a new version of the service that could bump its active user base up considerably. Messenger Kids is launching in preview … | Continue reading
Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to computer science education, announced today that it has received $12 million in new donations from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, Infosys FoundationUSA, and others. Founded in … | Continue reading
Blockchain startup Blockstack says it raised $52.8 million in its ICO, finalized Friday. The company is building a sort of parallel to the internet that users access via the Blockstack browser and that features a wide variety of apps. The Blockstack ecosystem promises to benefit … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: BIOASIS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (OTCQB:BIOAF; TSX.V:BTI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the delivery of therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and into the central nervous system for the treatment of neurological... | Continue reading
Since Tom Enders became CEO of European aerospace giant Airbus in 2012, he has sought to shake up nearly every corner of the company with an aggressive plan to make its culture more innovative. But it seems those efforts could be derailed, with a double whammy of bad news hitting … | Continue reading
Uber is joining a host of transport-focused online companies as the newest members of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP — from French, L’Union internationale des transports publics), a not-for-profit global advocacy network that brings together key stakehold … | Continue reading