While Silicon Valley is still the place to be for many tech workers, Canadian tech companies say they are seeing an unprecedented level of interest from international applicants. MaRS, an innovation hub in Toronto, surveyed more than 100 Canadian tech companies with more than 1 m … | Continue reading
Since Tesla was founded more than 14 years ago, the electric car company has run a nonstop gauntlet of doubters who felt that its audacious plans were overblown hype. As Tesla rolled out new versions of its cars, and as its stock price soared to make it more valuable than Ford, c … | Continue reading
Ambarella has unveiled some new vision processing chips that are being used in self-driving cars, and today the company is taking the wraps off one of those cars. The new test car shows off tech from Santa Clara, California-based Ambarella, which revealed its CV1 and CV22 familie … | Continue reading
REVIEW: The tech, game, and virtual reality industries have a lot of hopes tied to Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One film, which debuts on March 29 throughout the United States. I caught a premier of the film at the Dolby Theater in San Francisco as part of promotion for Roblox … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Having recently obtained a significant seed investment from Quark Venture Inc. through the Global Health Sciences Fund, ARTMS Products Inc. today announced the appointment of Dr. Kaley Wilson, PhD, as the interim Chief Executive Officer.... | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company. The U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court in … | Continue reading
GUEST: Museums have proven to be some of the most exciting testing grounds for augmented reality. The cultural sector is taking major leaps towards embracing new technology, which is coming as a great benefit to those of us who enjoy traveling and learning about the cultural worl … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: MOS Lottery, a decentralized stock market lottery platform using blockchain smart contracts, announces its Pre-Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to interested investors today. MOS Lottery provides a new way for lottery players,... | Continue reading
(Reuters) — When Uber decided in 2016 to retire its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars in favor of Volvo sport utility vehicles, it also chose to scale back on one notable piece of technology: the safety sensors used to detect objects in the road. That decision resulted in a … | Continue reading
Facebook is planning to delay the release of its video chat device named Portal, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg today. Previous reports stated that Facebook had planned to release a voice controlled device that deploys facial recognition at its annual F8 conferen … | Continue reading
Nvidia picked its Inception program winners for the best artificial intelligence startups during the company’s GTC 2018 event in San Jose California. The winners are Subtle Medical, AiFi, and Kinema Systems. These startups are the ones that Nvidia hopes will change the world and … | Continue reading
REVIEW: HyperX has plenty of options for gaming headsets, and its latest offering is the Cloud Alpha. It is available now for $100, and it acts as the followup to HyperX’s Cloud II. The big upgrade here is dual-chamber system for its sound drivers that enables the high and mid to … | Continue reading
Google researchers have found ways to make machine-generated speech sound more natural to humans, members of Google’s Brain and Machine Perception teams said today in a blog post with samples of the more expressive voices. Earlier today, Google announced the beta release of its C … | Continue reading
Epic Games’ Fortnite: Battle Royale might not have chicken dinners, but players are finding it tasty. It’s been duking it out with PUBG Corp.’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for the No. 1 spot for the last couple of months, and market analyst Newzoo has some new numbers about the … | Continue reading
Nvidia loves the graphics processing unit (GPU), and all of the new kinds of computing it has enabled from self-driving cars to medical imaging devices. And venture capitalists are showing their love too by investing in GPU computing startups. Jeff Herbst, vice president of busin … | Continue reading
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said today that the autonomous Uber crash in Tempe, Arizona last week would likely lead to more investment in self-driving cars, not less. “I believe as a result of what happened last week, the amount of investment into the seriousness of [autonomous vehic … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: GPU Technology Conference-- Achieving best-in-class visual fidelity in real-time rendering, ZeroLight, Audi AG and NVIDIA have teamed to demonstrate real-time ray tracing during the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), in San Jose through... | Continue reading
GUEST: Artificial intelligence is having a moment across the business world. Data and technology have become valuable differentiators for many industries, and companies that want to remain on the cutting edge are exploring the potential of what AI can do for them. And, as with ma … | Continue reading
In a packed auditorium at the Game Developers Conference last week in San Francisco, 10 indie developers gave a series of microtalks about topics like accessibility, design challenges, diversity, and … sausages. Each speaker during the “Indie Soapbox” brought a unique perspective … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: The volume of data companies are amassing about their markets and their customers is growing exponentially, and with it, the potential to grow your business, your market share, and your bottom line. Artificial intelligence is the key. Join this VB Live event to learn how … | Continue reading
One of the most exciting moments from the hit film Black Panther came to life today, as Nvidia’s Holodeck software enabled a driver using virtual reality to drive a car in the real world. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offered the demonstration at the 2018 GPU Technology Conference (GTC … | Continue reading
Indie studio Faffinabout’s debut game From Light is a futuristic puzzle-platformer with mechanics inspired by photography. Starting today, it’s seeking $50,000 on the crowdfunding site Fig, and plans to launch on PC in late 2018. From Light is set on the tourist planet Paradise 2 … | Continue reading
Richard Garriott‘s Portalarium studio today officially released Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues for PC. Shroud of the Avatar is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and a spiritual successor to Garriott’s landmark Ultima series. Garriott also goes by Lord Briti … | Continue reading
GUEST: Health care applications of machine learning and AI have been in the news a bit more than usual recently, concurrent with the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas. HIMSS is a 45,000+ attendee conference dedicated to h … | Continue reading
While the Midwest continues to lag Silicon Valley in the total amount of venture capital raised, there is still progress being made as more of the region’s fast-growing tech startups raise rounds that are closer to Silicon Valley-size. Root Insurance, a Columbus-based car insuran … | Continue reading
At Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California today, HP introduced its new HP Z8 workstation for machine learning development. The machine is based on Nvidia’s Quadro GV100 platform, the latest version of its Quadro graphics processing unit (GPU) for worksta … | Continue reading
Fastdata.io, a real-time stream processing company, has raised a $5 million round of funding co-led by CrossCut and Pelion Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Nvidia. The startup was built on the idea that its stream processing software engine could use gra … | Continue reading
Google is going all-in on GIFs today with the news that it’s acquiring GIF search engine Tenor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2014, Tenor is one of a number of GIF-focused technology companies to come to the fore in recent years. The San Francisco-based company … | Continue reading
No matter how much you test a self-driving car, it isn’t enough. There are too many situations the artificial intelligence system has to train for and not enough testing time on the highways. So Nvidia has created Drive Constellation, a simulation platform that tests autonomous v … | Continue reading
Nvidia launched hardware and software improvements to its deep learning computing platform that deliver a 10 times performance boost on deep learning workloads compared with the previous generation six months ago. In the past five years, programmers have made huge advances in AI, … | Continue reading
Because the only way to know how much people will pay for a smartphone is to keeping upping the price into the stratosphere, Huawei announced today a new set of phones co-designed with Porsche that will drive a gaping hole in your bank account. The Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS w … | Continue reading
Nvidia showed off deep learning visualization 3D imagery of a beating heart and a baby in the womb, based on enhanced inferences from crude black-and-white ultrasound scans. Nvidia showed a demo dubbed Clara, a medical imaging supercomputer. It showed a baby in the womb, an image … | Continue reading
Google today updated its Google Play Movies & TV for Android app with a bunch of discovery features. You can download the new version from Google Play, but keep in mind that the update is only available in the U.S. and is rolling out “over the next few days.” Google Play Movies & … | Continue reading
Blizzard Entertainment has revealed plans for Overwatch’s 2018 World Cup, which will pit the world’s top 24 Overwatch-playing countries against each other. Esports have been a major part of Blizzard’s team-based shooter. This year saw the debut of the Overwatch League, a city-bas … | Continue reading
At a media event held in the auditorium of Chicago’s Lane Tech College Prep High School today, Apple announced that it will bring its iOS classroom organization app Classroom to the Mac, and release a new cloud-based app called Schoolwork to share handouts, apps, and progress upd … | Continue reading
Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent company Alphabet, has announced a partnership with Jaguar Land Rover to engineer what it’s touting as “the world’s first premium electric fully self-driving vehicle,” according to a Waymo blog post. U.K.-based Jaguar Land Rover un … | Continue reading
Confirming regulatory leaks from last month, Apple today officially debuted a new entry-level 9.7-inch iPad during an education-focused event at Chicago’s Lane Tech College Prep High School. The new iPad replaces a similar model released last year, but features upgraded specs, in … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: "We're eager to expand our clinical studies into multiple sites and locations. Which is why we have finalized an agreement with Five Corners, a CRO focused on medical device clinical studies in Australia and New Zealand," says Lyle ... | Continue reading
At a press event in Paris today, Huawei announced P20 and P20 Pro, successors to the P10 and P10 Plus, respectively. Though images and specs had been widely leaked leading up to the announcement, the company has now officially confirmed the details. In the U.S., consumers will ha … | Continue reading
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus was one of the great games of the fall season when it debuted last October. Most people have forgotten about it, but one of my favorite things to do is to talk with a creative director about a game after I’ve finished it and after most players don … | Continue reading
The U.S. is still a tech innovation hub, but other regions are on the rise, according to KPMG’s annual survey of tech leaders. Silicon Valley and San Francisco are together viewed as the top hub, but Shanghai ranks as the biggest rival when it comes to innovation. No. 2 behind Sh … | Continue reading
Chinese mobile giant Huawei unveiled its new flagship phones today at a splashy ceremony in Paris, as the company moves aggressively to raise its profile outside its home territory. Like nearly all major smartphone vendors, Huawei primarily emphasized advances in the phone’s came … | Continue reading
E-Line Media, creators of the Never Alone video game about Native Alaskans, has unveiled The Endless Mission, a sandbox-style creation game that takes players on a hero’s journey through a rich narrative world where they develop the power and opportunity to craft games and experi … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Our latest speakers for GamesBeat 2018 can look into the future of VC for games: Eric Goldberg, Nabeel Hyatt, Greg Milken, and Gordon Rubenstein. They’ll be talking about the biggest opportunities in games, and what’s offering the best returns right now, plus tackle the … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg has ignored calls to appear before a U.K. Parliament Committee for questioning over the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. The Facebook cofounder and CEO will instead send either Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer or Chief Product Officer Chris Cox … | Continue reading
Google today launched Android Studio 3.1, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with new features around product quality and app development productivity. You can download the new version for Windows, Mac, and Linux now directly from developer.androi … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber’s ability to test self-driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49-year-old pedestrian. The decision to block Uber Technologies Inc’s is a blow to the ride-hailing compan … | Continue reading
REVIEW: Since the first episode of Telltale Games’ Batman: The Enemy Within, Bruce Wayne and John Doe’s friendship has been hurtling toward a deadly standoff like a rickety roller coaster ride at a defunct funhouse. And in the finale, Same Stitch, we finally get to see John’s tru … | Continue reading