Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Baidu today announced that it will seek to raise financing for its Smart Living Business (SLG), the internal group that maintains Baidu’s DuerOS voice platform and DuerOS-powered smart devices. Baidu expects a series A funding round valuing SLG at approximately …
Read More »European Games BizDev Gathering seeks to keep deals and money flowing during pandemic
With big gaming events getting delayed or canceled, Hendrik Lesser decided to do an online event targeted at business development professionals in the European game industry. The result is this week’s European Games BizDev Gathering. More than 400 people are registered to attend the online-only event on May 13 and …
Read More »Testing Falls Woefully Short as Trump Seeks an End to Stay-at-Home Orders
As President Trump pushes to reopen the economy, most of the country is not conducting nearly enough testing to track the path and penetration of the coronavirus in a way that would allow Americans to safely return to work, public health officials and political leaders say. Although capacity has improved …
Read More »Crisis VRigade adds co-op via SideQuest, seeks community support
After two rejections from Facebook and procuring nearly 80,000 downloads for Oculus Quest anyway, the developers of Time Crisis-inspired Crisis VRigade are seeking community support as they launch a co-op mode. The new pay-as-you-want Itchio store page for the free SideQuest game coincides with the launch of a cooperative mode. You and a couple …
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