All of Google’s jokes for April Fools’ Day 2018
April Fools’ Day is upon us, and as happens every year, Google is doing its best to outdo itself. The company releases all sorts...
ProBeat: Windows is dead. Long live Windows
Terry Myerson is out. Microsoft lists his full title as “executive vice president and the former leader of the Windows and Devices Group (WDG).”...
Apple seeks VR patent to bring zombie attacks and talk shows into self-driving cars
In recent weeks, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published Apple patent applications for several fascinating virtual reality concepts, but the latest one...
Watch Nvidia drive a real car using Black Panther-style VR
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...
Nvidia’s Drive Constellation lets autonomous cars drive billions of miles in VR
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...
Nvidia reinvents workstations with real-time ray tracing
Nvidia announced that it has created added real-time ray tracing to its graphics processing units (GPUs) for workstations in a move that could make...
Gosu.ai raises $1.9 million to automate game training advice
Alisa Chumachenko, the founder of Game Insight, is back with a new startup called Gosu.ai, which she bills as a training lab that combines...
Amazon powers cloud servers for 90% of large game companies
More than 90 percent of the world’s largest game companies use Amazon Web Services, which offloads online gaming infrastructure tasks to Amazon’s giant cloud...
Otoy’s Octane 4 blends cinematic video and games using AI
You may not know it, but Otoy’s OctaneRender is an image renderer behind some cool film visuals like the opening of HBO’s Westworld, along with...
Google Maps helps developers make massive real-world games
Pokémon Go took the world by storm in July 2016 when it debuted with game characters embedded in real-world maps. Now Google is making...