Loom.ai can automatically create a 3D avatar of your face from a single selfie
Loom.ai has raised $1.35 million in seed funding, and it has also unveiled its platform for automatically creating 3D avatars of your face from...
Google and Improbable partner to create massive online game worlds
Improbable has partnered with Google to help developers build vast online game worlds. London-based Improbable has created SpatialOS software that enables small companies to...
Why The Last Guardian’s AI is a good example for chatbot developers
The game The Last Guardian features one big achievement that’s fairly awe-inspiring. It’s not the level design or even the gameplay, which are both compelling...
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...