GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now When designing the look of a video game console, engineers must account for a number of important variables. Chief among these is heat, and it sounds like that was an even bigger issue for the upcoming generation …
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GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now In a broad antitrust challenge to the power of one of the tech industry giants, Epic Games has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging antitrust violations for pulling Fortnite out of the Apple App Store because Epic …
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Transform 2020 Watch every session from our flagship AI event On Demand Watch Now The pandemic has upended the lives of workers around the world. Since February, many businesses deemed “non-essential” have been forced to close their doors for periods of time. People fortunate enough to work remotely are doing …
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Transform 2020 Watch every session from our flagship AI event On Demand Watch Now Twitter researchers claim to have found evidence of demographic bias in named entity recognition, the first step toward generating automated knowledge bases, or the repositories leveraged by services like search engines. They say their analysis reveals …
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Transform 2020 Watch every session from our flagship AI event On Demand Watch Now Open-domain question-answering models — models theoretically capable of responding to novel questions with novel answers — often simply memorize answers found in the data on which they’re trained, depending on the data set. That’s the assertion …
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Transform 2020 Watch every session from our flagship AI event On Demand Watch Now Gong.io, a startup providing an “intelligence platform” for enterprise sales teams, today nabbed $ 200 million in funding at a $ 2.2 billion valuation, up from a $ 750 million valuation in December 2019 when the …
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Transform 2020 Watch every session from our flagship AI event On Demand Watch Now Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden chose Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) to be his vice presidential running mate today. Born in Oakland, California and raised in Berkeley, Harris is the first African American woman and first Asian …
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WordPress.org today launched WordPress 5.5, which brings a slew of speed, search, security, block editor, accessibility, and developer updates. You can download version 5.5, which was developed by 805 volunteer contributors, now from WordPress.org/Download. WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that powers over 30% of the web (including VentureBeat). …
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Cybersecurity startup Elisity today emerged from stealth with $ 7.5 million in seed funding from Atlantic Bridge Associates. The company, whose founding team includes veterans of Cisco, Qualys, and Viptela, says its immediate focus is scaling up engineering, sales, and marketing teams ahead of its platform’s public launch. According to …
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