Google Assistant now has 50 apps and games for kids
Google Assistant is now able to do things like beatbox, host musical chairs, talk to Mickey Mouse, and play a variety of games made...
Amazon’s Alexa gets a board game: When in Rome
In what appears to be a first, Amazon’s Alexa will act as a guide for a board game called When in Rome, according to...
Microsoft’s Zo bot wants to play Exploding Kittens with you
Chat app users can now play Exploding Kittens with Microsoft’s conversational bot Zo, the company announced tody. Exploding Kittens is the first partner game...
Nvidia CEO talks cryptocurrency, AI, and the leisure economy
Nvidia turned out another stellar financial result for the second quarter ended July 31. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of the world’s biggest stand-alone maker of...
How video games help improve real-world AI
For decades, video games have been criticized for purportedly wasting time, stifling creativity, and even influencing violent behaviors. Now, it seems that video games...
PlayFab taps IBM’s Watson AI to understand why gamers keep playing
IBM and PlayFab are teaming up to deliver better insights about gamers based on analysis from IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence platform. Seattle-based PlayFab provides...
How to take AI far beyond gaming
Venture capital investments in artificial intelligence (AI), one of the biggest technological trends these days, are booming. The year 2016 saw almost ten times...
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...
How Rothenberg Ventures got ahead of the VR investing craze
With virtual reality now seemingly everywhere, it’s easy to think that the technology came out of nowhere. Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus Rift two years ago...
This artificially intelligent Mario learns how to chase coins and navigate the Mushroom Kingdom
The Mario A.I. Project has built a system in which Nintendo's famous plumber learns what navigating the Mushroom Kingdom means.