Pokémon Go was the third most discussed topic on Facebook in 2016. The first? You’ll never guess…
Is it 2017 yet? No? Damn. Well, we’re almost there, but before the year from hell officially comes to an end, the giants from...
Facebook brings ‘instant’ HTML5 games like Pac-Man to your News Feed and Messenger
Facebook wants to completely remove the barrier between you and games on its platform, and it is using HTML5 to accomplish that across mobile...
Helpshift pulls Cisco into $25 million round for in-app customer support
Cisco is joining as an investor into Helpshift‘s previously announced $25 million funding round. That’s a big endorsement for the startup’s business of providing...
AImotive demos recognition software for self-driving cars
AImotive is introducing a suite of software for self-driving cars. The Budapest, Hungary-based company that was previously known as AdasWorks has now opened an...
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...