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...
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dives deep into gaming, VR, autonomous cars, and Shield TV
You could say that Nvidia is at its high-water mark. The company’s stock price has tripled in the past year. It has transformed itself...
Watch Dogs 2’s hackivists go to war with its hacker-proof city
The original Watch Dogs is a revenge tale and a warning about the threats that hackers pose to smart cities. Watch Dogs 2 offers...
Elemental’s smart connected toy CogniToys taps IBM’s Watson supercomputer for its brains
Elemental Path raises $165,000 in just seven days on Kickstarter, blowing past its $50,000 goal.
Hot tip: Spend less time on Thanksgiving eating turkey, and more time getting the best online discounts of the year
IBM and Adobe give their shopping predictions for the Thanksgiving weekend. And here's a big tip from the data: The year's lowest discount, an average of 24 percent, hits on Thanksgiving Day.
A security expert examines if the hackers of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs could actually take over a real smart city (interview)
Malware expert Vitaly Kamluk says the scenario of Watch Dogs is already happening.
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs highlights the down side of smart cities (preview)
Just how real is the threat that hackers can post to smart cities?
GamesBeat weekly roundup: OnLive, layoffs, and how spoilers influence buying decisions
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Social gaming startup Playdemic receives $3 million in funding from IBM founder’s family
U.K.-based social gaming startup Playdemic has received significant funding, including $3 million the Watson family.
Weaker Q2 tech earnings could make investors jittery
Earnings season starts this week for tech companies, and no one is expecting outstanding second-quarter results. If the reports turn out to be weaker...