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OpenAI made a system that’s better at Montezuma’s Revenge than humans

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 1, 2018
3 min

Artificial intelligence (AI) can generate synthetic scans of brain cancer, simultaneously translate between languages, and teach robots to manipulate objects with humanlike dexterity. And...

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Words With Friends 2 will let you play with Pink Ribbon tiles to raise breast cancer awareness.

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Zynga ramps from ‘fix it’ mode to ‘grow it’ mode as Q3 revenue hits $233 million

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 31, 2018
3 min

Zynga is shifting gears from its “fix it” mode to “grow it” mode as the company reported strong earnings results for the third quarter...

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Arthur Morgan strikes out on his own in a lot of missions in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 is a big hit on social media

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 30, 2018
1 min

Red Dead Redemption 2 fans posted 1.13 million posts on social media during the days surrounding the game’s October 26 launch, according to consumer...

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Sadie Adler has to beg to go out on missions.

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Red Dead Fever: Social-analytics firm claims y’all are playing hooky

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 26, 2018
2 min

Red Dead Redemption 2 is out now, but how do we know if it’s successful? Well, you can use any number of metrics to...

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Osmo Detective Agency taps AR to put kids in the role of globe-trotting gumshoe

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 25, 2018
2 min

Tangible Play, the Palo Alto startup behind the augmented reality Osmo game system, has sold its 11 educational games in over 42 countries and...

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Microsoft reports $29.1 billion in Q1 2019 revenue: Azure up 76%, Surface up 14%, and Windows up 3%

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 24, 2018
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Microsoft today reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2019, including revenue of $29.1 billion, net income of $8.8 billion, and earnings per...

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Juji is an empathetic chatbot for human conversations.

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Juji is an empathetic AI chatbot that holds personalized conversations with people

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 18, 2018
4 min

Artificial intelligence researcher Michelle Zhou has created a chatbot called Juji with a cheerful personality to hold personal conversations with people. The chatbot has...

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Otoy’s RNDR harnesses 14,000 GPUs to render cloud-based graphics

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 17, 2018
3 min

Blockchain-based rendering platform RNDR has harnessed the graphics processing power of more than 14,000 graphics processing units (GPU) provided by individuals who contribute the...