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Microsoft reports $26.1 billion in Q2 2017 revenue: Azure up 93%, but Phone down 81% and Surface down 2%

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 26, 2017
2 min

Microsoft today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $26.1 billion, net income of $6.5 billion, and earnings per...

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Ludacris launches Scrabble-like Slang N’ Friendz mobile game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 26, 2017
3 min

Everybody uses slang, but you can’t use those words in games like Scrabble. So Ludacris, the hip hop entertainer, is launching a new word...

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Improbable, a U.K. startup that helps devs build massive simulated worlds, to open first U.S. hub in San Francisco

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 23, 2017
2 min

Improbable, a U.K. startup that makes it easier for developers to build massive simulated worlds, has announced it’s opening its first base in the...

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Tapjoy: Mobile games are more engaging and fun than social networks

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 19, 2017
2 min

Consumers feel happier and more engaged when they are playing mobile games than when they are using social networks, according to a research report...

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MIT launches Play Labs to help AR, VR, and AI startups get off the ground

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 18, 2017
2 min

Bayview Labs, Seraph Group, and MIT Game Lab are creating Play Labs to accelerate startups in augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. The...

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The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world’s most revolutionary phone

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 10, 2017
16 min

It looked nothing like an iPhone, or anything Apple might dare to make. On September 10, 2013, the day Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S,...

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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dives deep into gaming, VR, autonomous cars, and Shield TV

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 8, 2017
24 min

You could say that Nvidia is at its high-water mark. The company’s stock price has tripled in the past year. It has transformed itself...

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The DeanBeat: Great gadgets, moments, and trends at CES 2017

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 6, 2017
9 min

When the leaders of the tech industry get up on the big stages at the Consumer Electronics Show, you can learn a lot. I’m...

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The curious, the lavish, and the best, most pointless news of CES 2017

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 5, 2017
4 min

CES, the most extravagant and important tech trade event of the year, is going down in Las Vegas. As you can imagine, there is an...

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Google confirms its AlphaGo AI beat top players in online games

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 4, 2017
1 min

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) research group is back again at the ancient Chinese game of Go. Rather than playing top-ranking Go players in...

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