Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. On the latest episode of The GamesBeat Decides podcast, the crew looks at Xbox’s strong week and PlayStation buying the Evo fighting-game tournament. GamesBeat editors Mike Minotti and Jeff Grubb also answer your questions about …
Read More »Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV won’t release until 2022
Beyond the app store: Why mobile games need a multi-platform strategy Learn how to go beyond the tried-and-true pathways to improve discoverability, create community, and scale your mobile business. View On Demand Activision Blizzard noted in an investors call today that Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV won’t launch until at …
Read More »Researchers release Melinda dataset to train AI systems for analyzing study methods
Curating biological studies is an important yet labor-intensive process performed by researchers in life sciences fields. Among other tasks, curators must recognizing experiment methods, identifying the underlying protocols that net the figures published in research articles. In other words, “biocurators” need to take figures, captions, and more into their consideration …
Read More »Biotech Industry Pushes Trump Administration to Release New Vaccine Guidelines
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s recent suggestion that the White House may not approve stricter criteria for the emergency authorization of any coronavirus vaccine is causing growing angst within the biotech industry, whose trade organization is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to quickly publish the guidelines and make …
Read More »The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsushima get new release dates
Sony today revealednew release dates for two of the last big exclusives coming to PlayStation 4: The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsushima. Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic The Last of Us Part II will come out on June 19. Sucker Punch’s samurai action-adventure title Ghost of Tsushima follows …
Read More »Coronavirus won’t disrupt Cyberpunk 2077’s September 17 release
CD Projekt Red is pushing ahead with its launch plans for Cyberpunk 2077. The open-world sci-fi role-playing adventure is due out September 17, and the studio expects to stick to that date. During a conference call today with financial analysts, the company revealed it has plans in place to deal …
Read More »Researchers release data set of CT scans from coronavirus patients
In an effort to spur the development of systems that can quickly spot signs of the novel coronavirus, a team of researchers at the University of San Diego this week released a data set — the COVID-CT-Dataset — containing 275 CT scans collected from 143 patients with confirmed cases of …
Read More »Microsoft, White House, and Allen Institute release coronavirus data set for medical and NLP researchers
The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a repository of more than 29,000 scholarly articles about coronavirus family viruses from around the world, is being released today for free. The result of work by Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for AI, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of …
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