VentureBeat’s second special issue is nigh. Following our first special issue, Power in AI, this next one focuses on AI and security. Each special issue is a package of articles that explores a central topic from a variety of angles, from voices in industry, academia, and our newsroom. Whether we’re …
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Presented by Sinch Brand marketers have seen the future of enterprise comms, and it’s not email or apps. It’s almost certainly rich conversational messaging. So, how will it look in 2030? Futurologists can be sure of one thing: technology might change in unexpected ways, but people don’t. While 1960s future-gazers …
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Google hopes to spur the development of AI capable of understanding the ways in which languages express different meanings. To this end, company researchers today detailed a data set — TyDi QA, a question-answering data set covering 11 languages — inspired by typological diversity, or the notion that different languages …
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Take-Two revealed today that Red Dead Redemption 2 has now sold over 29 million copies. The new came as part of the publisher’s latest financial results. That is up from 26.5 million that Take-Two reported in the previous quarter. Red Dead Redemption 2 came out for PC on November 5 …
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Can a drone determine the shape of a room using microphones alone? That’s what Purdue University researchers set out to discover in a study that will be published next week in the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry. In it, they propose a drone-mounted microphone array that measures sound emitted …
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Rod Fergusson announced today that he is leaving The Coalition, the Microsoft studio behind the Gears franchise, to lead the Diablo franchise for Blizzard Entertainment. Fergusson had worked on Gears since it was still an Epic Games franchise. He started at Epic in 2005, and then went over to Microsoft …
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Mobile gaming and cloud gaming platforms are now vital contributors to the video game industry’s expansion. According to recent data, the cloud gaming market rose from an estimated $ 45 million in 2017 to $ 66 million in 2018. If this trend continues, that figure is predicted to skyrocket to …
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Nexon Korea has announced it has agreed to give a 6.8% wage increase to the labor union representing the company’s employees. The union, dubbed Starting Point, said it reached a tentative agreement with management to raise the average work wage for 2020. The Korea Herald said it was the first …
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