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In a blow to Bixby, Siri cofounder Adam Cheyer departs Samsung

VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Last week, Voicebot.ai reported that Adam Cheyer, a founding member of the startups that built both Siri and Bixby, left Samsung after a two-year stint at the company. Cheyer himself corroborated the report today, telling …

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Call of Duty: Warzone hits 75 million downloads in less than 5 months

GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Call of Duty: Warzone grew to more than 75 million players in 146 days as the free-to-play battle royale became a popular pastime during the pandemic. The news comes as Activision announced it will launch Season Five …

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Starfinder is an interactive Alexa voice game starring Laura Bailey

GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Amazon is launching Starfinder, an interactive Alexa game featuring the voice actors Laura Bailey (of The Last of Us Part II) and Nathan Fillion. It’s a new way to entertain yourself in today’s stay-at-home culture. The first three …

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Grand Theft Auto V hits 135 million sold as spending surges during pandemic

GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Take-Two announced today during its latest earnings report that Grand Theft Auto V has now sold over 135 million copies. That number was at 130 million when Take-Two reported it in May during the previous earnings report. …

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Canalys: Surging tablet sales offset desktop PC declines in Q2 2020

VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Ten years ago, tablet computers were marketed as the vanguard of the “post-PC” era, but traditional desktop and notebook PCs remained popular as tablet sales plateaued. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, tablets saw an unexpected …

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China’s Xiao-i sues Apple for $1.43 billion over Siri AI infringement

VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now (Reuters) — Chinese artificial intelligence company Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology, also known as Xiao-i, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging it has infringed on Xiao-i’s patents. Xiao-i is calling for 10 billion yuan …

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For World of Darkness, the future of tabletop RPGs is increasingly digital

GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now The early-’90s, in all of its grunge-soaked glory, saw vampires and werewolves roam the night while humanity became part of a herd to be culled and controlled. A World of Darkness had been born in shadow and …

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Surviving the new normal: What to do when a customer asks to see your startup’s financials

VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now It was 2008 Redwood City, and my startup Makara was riding the early cloud wave born of virtualization, trying to create what is now known as “containerized applications.” Early adopters for this technology were the …

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ByteDance and Microsoft offer White House a deal to keep TikTok in the U.S.

VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now (Reuters) — China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided …

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