IBM teams up with Activision Blizzard to manage tech for the Overwatch League
IBM will manage the technology for Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch League, a sign esports is starting to demand the most sophisticated cloud and AI technologies....
IBM claims its Neural Computer achieves record AI model training time
In a technical paper quietly released earlier this year, IBM detailed what it calls the IBM Neural Computer, a reconfigurable parallel processing system designed...
IBM’s tennis AI measures player performance and selects highlights
Tennis and AI are like peas in a pod, if you ask IBM. The folks at the Armonk, New York-based company today detailed Coach...
Our deep dive into how esports broadcasting differs from traditional sports
The world of sports entertainment is changing, and esports is the star player. Market researcher Newzoo forecasts that esports revenue will grow from $906...
How Oblong helped IBM build its ‘immersion rooms’ with giant displays
John Underkoffler is best known as the science adviser for the landmark sci-fi film Minority Report, where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gesture...
The DeanBeat: The blockchain hype train comes to gaming
Blockchain this and that. You hear it all the time now. I get pitched a few times per week, or sometimes per day, on...
Star Trek: Bridge Crew is keeping IBM’s Watson on its duty roster
After hearing swirlings that the IBM Watson-powered voice recognition features for Star Trek: Bridge Crew would be deactivated, we reached out to Ubisoft for confirmation. As a result,...
How CA Technologies is brewing startups within a big enterprise
I first met Otto Berkes when he was one of the founders of Microsoft’s Xbox team, alongside three other crazy Microsoft colleagues. They hatched a...
LiquidSky lets you play your PC games on Android devices
Cloud gaming platform LiquidSky has launched its revamped Android app, enabling mobile gamers to play their PC games anytime, anywhere on their mobile devices...
IBM Watson enables voice commands in Ubisoft’s Star Trek: Bridge Crew virtual reality game
IBM Watson‘s artificial intelligence platform will enable voice commands in Ubisoft‘s Star Trek: Bridge Crew virtual reality game. IBM and French video game developer...