See Hideo Kojima and other game devs pose like awkward stock photo models
There’s no limit to the range of emotions that arise from playing games. Yet if most stock photos are anything to go by, pure...
Microsoft still accepts Bitcoin, apologizes for ‘inaccurate information’ on its site
In December 2014, Microsoft added Bitcoin as a payment option, courtesy of Bitcoin processor BitPay, for a variety of its gaming and mobile content....
Check out these trippy holograms from Microsoft’s Actiongram app for HoloLens
Microsoft pulled the covers off of some holograms that people have made with Actiongram, a tool for creating holographic experiences for the HoloLens augmented...
Nokia’s $60,000 Ozo VR camera starts shipping and it can also be rented through resellers
Nokia may be a dinosaur of the smartphone world, but the Finnish company has been pushing its technology smarts in other verticals recently —...
Microsoft’s using Minecraft to boost artificial intelligence research with Project AIX
Microsoft has quietly unveiled a new platform that harnesses the power of Minecraft to expedite artificial intelligence (AI) development. The project is under the...
Chinese game developer Kunlun invests $3 million in Silicon Valley AI company
Publicly traded Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Technology Co. Ltd. announced on Wednesday a $3 million USD investment in Kunlun AI, a new company jointly established...
Yahoo announces plans to kill off Games, Livetext, Boss, and more regional sites
Yahoo today announced its Q1 2016 progress report, highlighting the closure of several products and regional sites. As shared in its last earnings call, the company wants to focus on just seven core consumer products: Mail, Search, Tumblr, News, Sports, Finance, and Lifestyle.
Rethinking data pipeline dilemmas to boost speeds and decrease costs
It’s bad enough that the current ETL times for structured data is already a big data pipeline bottleneck. Now companies also need to contend with unstructured and semi-structured data streaming in from multiple sources simply because they have no choice.
Robert Scoble leaving Rackspace for UploadVR to explore augmented and virtual reality
Technology evangelist, author, and blogger Robert Scoble is leaving Rackspace to pursue an entrepreneur-in-residence role with UploadVR. He says that he’ll do the same...
Facebook’s Oculus adds new social games and video features to Samsung Gear VR
Oculus today announced a slew of new features for the Samsung Gear VR. The Facebook-owned company is unsurprisingly focusing on social, and in this...