One of the most well-known creative companies working in the gaming space is pulling out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Iam8bit creates experiences and art installations related to games, and it was supposed to operate as the creative director of E3 2020. But that is no longer going to happen. …
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Last month’s cancellation of the mobile industry trade show MWC 2020 deprived European carriers of the opportunity to show their latest 5G innovations to a global audience, but Finland’s Elisa — one of the world’s earliest 5G carriers — has opened a 5G Showroom in Helsinki to preview next-generation cellular …
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Chinese electronics giant TCL has unveiled a pair of concept devices that use next-gen flexible display technologies — showcasing a possible future for mobile digital devices. TCL isn’t a particularly well-known smartphone brand outside of China, but the Huizhou, Guangdong Province-based company acquired the rights to design and sell BlackBerry-branded …
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The City of Los Angeles has announced a state of emergency due to the spread of the coronavirus. For the video game industry, this puts a spotlight on the Entertainment Software Association, which is the organization that oversees E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) in L.A. every June. In response to …
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It’s easy to feel outrage at Clearview AI for creating facial recognition trained with 3 billion images scraped without permission from sites like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but the company should be only one of the targets of your ire. Pervasive surveillance capitalism is designed to make you feel helpless, …
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SiLC Technologies, a silicon photonics startup specializing in photonic sensor and 3D imaging applications, today announced that it has closed a $ 12 million seed financing round. Founder and CEO Mehdi Asghari says that it’ll allow the company to refine its 4D+ Vision Chip lidar sensor, which it claims exceeds …
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FiveAI has raised $ 41 million in venture capital as the startup seeks to turn the self-driving research it has conducted into commercial products and services. The U.K.-based startup has created a technology stack to power autonomous vehicles. The company uses AI and machine learning that would let cars use …
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To address the coronavirus, the University of Washington has launched a puzzle game that challenges you to build a protein that could stop COVID-19 (the virus’s official name) from attacking human cells. The game is available on Foldit, a website that the Center for Game Science created. Foldit uses crowdsourcing …
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Talespin made itself famous for a virtual reality demo where managers learn how to fire a hapless worker named Barry. Now the company has raised $ 15 million to further develop extended reality (XR) — using technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality — for enterprise training. Cornerstone OnDemand, …
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