Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Up until now, T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network has had the advantage of breadth without the value of depth, covering more than half of the United States with low band 600MHz signals that are in some cases no faster than 4G. …
Read More »Big Fish Games cuts 250 jobs and streamlines mobile game operations
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Big Fish Games announced it has cut 250 jobs as it restructures the mobile game publisher and developer to “address scaling challenges and reinforce the company’s positioning for growth.” If that sounds vague to you, it does …
Read More »The Nvidia/Arm deal could create the dominant ecosystem for the next computer era
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now The next strategic inflection point in computing will be the cloud expanding to the edge, involving highly parallel computer architectures connected to hundreds of billions of IoT devices. Nvidia is uniquely positioned to dominate that ecosystem, and if it does …
Read More »Alexa users can now buy gas with a voice command at some stations
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now In partnership with ExxonMobil and fintech provider Fiserv, Amazon today launched an Alexa feature that lets users pay for gas using a voice command. The integration was first announced in January at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, but today marks …
Read More »AVerMedia Live Gamer Duo review — The right capture card for livestreamers
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now AVerMedia’s Live Gamer Duo makes so much sense, so why did it take so long to turn into reality? The key feature is that it has two HDMI inputs. One is an HDMI 2.0 port for your …
Read More »Wasteland 3 review-in-progress — Colder, but more intimate
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now I think someone at InXile Entertainment has watched Honey, I Shrunk the Kids a few too many times. Wasteland 3 has grenades that shrink your foes. Enemies have them, too. The studio’s previous role-playing game, The Bard’s …
Read More »Qualcomm doubles 5G mmWave range to 2.36 miles for broadband modems
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now As 5G networks have continued to spread across the world, the biggest issue with ultra-fast millimeter wave (mmWave) towers has been their short transmission distance, which is generally measured in city blocks rather than miles. Today, Qualcomm announced a breakthrough …
Read More »Companies have long embraced job ‘ownership,’ but there’s a better model
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now “Who owns the Refund Processing for American Builders?” Jane came rushing to my desk on a rainy January afternoon with a look of urgency. Our office was always bustling with engineers, product managers, and business development folks hustling to create …
Read More »How to tell if computer vision can transform your business
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now During my career as an automotive engineer at Ford Motor Company in the early 2000s, world-class vision system technology was already routinely being used for various applications on programs and production. However, the automation around the analysis had not yet …
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