Nvidia today apologized for publishing a tweet Tuesday which depicts a graphics card with scantily clad legs. The tweet imitating the “Did it work” meme was sent from Nvidia’s GeForce Twitter account, which has over 1 million followers. The tweet was errantly posted and quickly removed, an Nvidia spokesperson told …
Read More »Niantic’s Greg Borrud: From falling into games to making games for the real world
Niantic is known for its approach to augmented reality and location-based gaming. In the summer of 2016, Pokémon Go changed the world and how communities form around mobile games. Greg Borrud, the general manager at Niantic’s Los Angeles studio, has watched the industry grow and evolve from a reliance on …
Read More »Researchers propose ways to apply AI to agriculture and conservation
During a workshop hosted at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020, which took place on the web this week, panelists discussed how AI and machine learning might be — and already has been — applied to agricultural challenges. As several pointed out, countries around the world face a …
Read More »Dead Space ideas came from game-design team’s ‘horror competition’
At one point during Issac Clark’s adventure on the USG Ishimura, a giant tentacle grabs him. As the player, you launch a desperate assault at the appendage as it slowly drags you down the hallway. It’s a tense segment, especially when you consider that Dead Space is a game from …
Read More »Brian Bowman: Why it’s so hard to beat Facebook’s automated control video ads
Facebook advertisers may spend a lot of money trying to come up with new kinds of ads for games and other apps, but it can be very hard to beat the best-performing video ad (known as the control video) on the social network. Consumer Acquisition CEO Brian Bowman spoke about this …
Read More »The challenges of developing autonomous vehicles during a pandemic
In the months since the coronavirus prompted shelter-in-place orders around the world, entire companies, industries, and economies have been decimated. One market that appeared poised to escape the impact was autonomous vehicles, particularly in the case of companies whose cars can be used to transport supplies to health care workers. …
Read More »DJI’s Mavic Air 2 has a flight time of 34 minutes
DJI today unveiled the Mavic Air 2, the successor to the Mavic Air, which was released in early 2018. There isn’t much in the way of surprises — the manual leaked in full last week — but the company detailed a few of the photography features debuting on its latest …
Read More »The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsushima get new release dates
Sony today revealednew release dates for two of the last big exclusives coming to PlayStation 4: The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsushima. Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic The Last of Us Part II will come out on June 19. Sucker Punch’s samurai action-adventure title Ghost of Tsushima follows …
Read More »Templafy raises $25 million to help workers create company-compliant documents
Templafy, a Danish startup that helps anyone in a company create new documents while adhering to branding and legal guidelines, has raised $ 25 million in a series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. The raise comes as companies around the world have been forced to swiftly adapt …
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