Cisco launches cloud service for smart cities as game about hacking smart cities debuts
Here’s a weird intersection of fiction and real life. Cisco is announcing today a new cloud service to enable smart cities, just a day...
Here’s why data scientists are slowing bots down by a factor of 1 trillion to play StarCraft II
When you play chess or Go, you have perfect information. You know everything about the current state and past history of every piece on...
Google’s DeepMind A.I. takes on something even more complicated than chess or go: StarCraft II
Google and Blizzard are opening up StarCraft II to anyone who wants to teach artificial intelligence systems how to conduct warfare, because apparently I’m...
How the game investors at Signia Venture Partners have steered into VR
Rick Thompson has made a lot of good investments over time which have generated around $6 billion in returns, roughly speaking. He is knowledgeable...
Activision launches Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare tour-guide bot for Facebook Messenger
Ahead of the release of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in five days, Activision launched a Facebook Messenger bot that acts as a tour...
The DeanBeat: Why video game companies — and all of us — need to think more about A.I.
I was fascinated to meet Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank, one of the world’s biggest tech companies, this week at the ARM TechCon...
Microsoft reports $22.3 billion in Q1 2017 revenue: Surface up 38% and Phone down 72%
Microsoft today reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $22.3 billion and earnings per share of $0.76. In Q1...
GamesBeat and Bots showcase VentureBeat’s new Channel Strategy
What if there were information sources that could keep you up-to-the-minute informed on the technology topics that matter most? What if there were one-stop shops...
Harvard Business Review ranks Nvidia boss Jen-Hsun Huang as a top 10 best-performing CEO
One of the dominant forces in PC gaming is getting recognition as a global business powerhouse. Nvidia chief executive officer Jen-Hsun Huang is the...
Anti-Trump election game comes from MoveOn.org and game scholar Jane McGonigal
Video game designer Jane McGonigal and political group MoveOn.org have teamed up to create a video game, SwingVoter Go, aimed at defeating Donald Trump...