GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Facebook is requiring a new step to sideload content on the Oculus Quest standalone headset. The option to use “unknown sources” on Oculus Quest is gated behind “Developer Mode.” Currently, enabling developer mode for your account requires …
Read More »Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Amazon, Facebook, and Google Nest today announced Zoom video calls are coming to their smart displays in a shift that could shake up how people receive video calls or interact with AI assistants. This is the first non-native video offering …
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VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Gary Reback is perhaps best known as the lawyer who helped convince the U.S. Department of Justice to bring an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s. He watched the majority of the House Judiciary …
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VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Facebook is finally bringing biometric unlocking to its Messenger mobile app, beginning today on iPhones and iPads, with Android coming “in the next few months.” The launch comes shortly after Facebook confirmed it was testing …
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Facebook and Instagram users won’t see any official PlayStation content in their feeds this July. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) revealed it is halting all of its social media activity on those platforms (as first reported by GamesIndustry.biz). This is in support of the recent #StopHateForProfit campaign, which urges marketers to …
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Facebook researchers believe the Atari game NetHack is well-tailored to training, testing, and evaluating AI models. To this end, they today released the NetHack Learning Environment, a research tool for benchmarking the robustness and generalization of reinforcement learning agents. For decades, games have served as benchmarks for AI. But things …
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Facebook researchers this week introduced Situated Interactive MultiModal Conversations (SIMMC), a novel research direction aimed at training AI chatbots that take actions like showing an object and explaining what it’s made of in response to images, memories of previous interactions, and individual requests. In a technical paper, they detail new …
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(Reuters) — President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has long protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, an extraordinary attempt to intervene in the media that experts said was unlikely to survive legal scrutiny. Trump signed an executive order on …
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(Reuters) — Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around $ …
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