Microsoft Microsoft announces SharePoint Home Sites, Q&As in Yammer, and moreVentureBeat - Kyle Wiggers At Microsoft's SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, the company unveiled new features heading to Microsoft 365 services like SharePoint and Yammer.
Wi-Fi In the 5G era, spectrum sharing is key to cellular and Wi-Fi growthVentureBeat - Jeremy Horwitz 5G is the hot new wireless technology, but it will benefit from sharing wireless spectrum with previous standards, including 4G and Wi-Fi.
Intel makes progress toward optical chips that accelerate AIVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersPhotonic integrated circuits, or optical chips, promise a host of advantages over their electronic counterparts, including reduced power consumption and processing speedups. That’s why a cohort of researchers
Tencent Holdings Tencent acquires Swedish game studio SharkmobVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiTencent Holdings said it has acquired Swedish game developer Sharkmob for an undisclosed price. The team includes veterans from games such as The Division and Hitman. Sharkmob was founded two years ago
Play buttonNorth Sumatra The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan sails to PC and consoles on August 30VentureBeat - Dean TakahashiGet ready for your watery grave. Bandai Namco Games said that The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan will debut on August 30 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the PC via Steam. Man of Medan comes
Amazon Amazon’s AI improves emotion detection in voicesVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMuch can be gleaned from the tone of someone’s voice, which is a natural conduit for emotion. And emotion has a range of applications: It can aid in health-monitoring by helping detect early signs of or
Technology Andrew Yang: The U.S. government is 24 years behind on techVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersOf the 20-some-odd public figures gunning for the Democratic presidential nomination this U.S. election cycle, Andrew Yang stands left of center for his decidedly progressive views. The New York native’s
Huawei Huawei debuts Honor 20 series with quad camera and side-mounted fingerprint scannerVentureBeat - Paul SawersHuawei sub-brand Honor unveiled its new flagship phones today at an event in London. The smartphone maker lifted the lid on the Honor 20 and Honor 20 Pro, a week after it launched the “Lite” incarnation.
Airbnb Airbnb teams up with 23andMe to recommend heritage travel destinationsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersEver heard of heritage travel? It’s when folks pilgrimage to uncover family histories in their forebears’ home cities, towns, and countries. According to a recent survey, about 89% of people in India 69%
Bose Bose brings Google Assistant to new and existing smart speakersVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonStarting today, Bose is bringing Google Assistant to its Home Speaker 500, Soundbar 500, and Soundbar 700. Bose also announced the Home Speaker 300, which is due out this summer. With Google Assistant,
Machine Learning Wolfram gives developers free access to its knowledge engineVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiWolfram Research today announced free access to the engine that powers its technology stack. The Wolfram Engine is available to developers for free, assuming it is used for non-production development.
Kubernetes Microsoft launches Service Mesh Interface, Visual Studio Code Kubernetes extension 1.0, and Virtual Kubelet 1.0VentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiAt KubeCon EU in Barcelona today, Microsoft made a slew of Kubernetes announcements. The company launched the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, its new community project for collaboration around
Play buttonFirefox Firefox 67 arrives with new performance and privacy features, voice search widget on AndroidVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiMozilla today launched Firefox 67 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The 10th release since Mozilla’s big Firefox Quantum launch in November 2017 doubles down on performance and privacy. Firefox 67
Startups GV joins $50 million investment in ‘wearable therapy’ startup Cala HealthVentureBeat - Paul SawersCala Health, a medical technology company that develops “wearable therapies” to tackle chronic disease, has raised $50 million in a series C round of funding from a number of big-name investors, including
Play button HP and Smile Direct Club want to disrupt orthodontics with 3D-printed bracesVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiHP and SmileDirectClub hope to disrupt the $12 billion orthodontics business by making 3D-printed teeth molds. At the Rapid 2019 3D printing conference, the company said it will use 49 HP Jet Fusion 3D
DevOps CloudBees raises $10 million in follow-on funding for Jenkins-based DevOps solutionsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersCloudBees, a San Jose, California-based software company that provides DevOps solutions to enterprises, today announced that it has secured $10 million in follow-on funding from HSBC. This brings the last
Oculus VR Asgard’s Wrath is an ambitious, sometimes overwhelming action game for VRVentureBeat - Mike MinottiI have to admire Asgard’s Wrath. This VR Oculus exclusive has a lot of ambition. I played a demo during a pre-E3 showcase of Oculus games last week in Santa Monica on an Oculus Rift S. It’s beautiful has
Oculus Quest Phantom: Covert Ops is VR Metal Gear Solid in a kayakVentureBeat - Mike MinottiDon’t let Phantom: Covert Ops’ generic name full you. This is a stealth-action game set entirely in a kayak. It’s also a VR title exclusive to Oculus platforms. That premise sounds ridiculous, but it best
Riot Games Riot Games and State Farm extend League of Legends esports pact to 2021VentureBeat - Giancarlo ValdesLeague of Legends has a history of attracting huge companies outside gaming to sponsor its esports tournaments. And today, developer Riot Games announced that it’s renewing one of those deals with U.S.-based
Huawei U.S. eases trade restrictions on HuaweiVentureBeat - Reuters(Reuters) — The U.S. government has temporarily eased trade restrictions imposed last week on China’s Huawei, a move aimed at minimizing disruption for its customers but dismissed by its founder who said
Play buttonHTC Vive Sixense hires HTC Vive’s Joel Breton to run VR and AR content studioVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiSixense Enterprises has hired former HTC Vive executive Joel Breton to run a virtual reality and augmented reality content studio, dubbed Sixense Studios, as the company expands its software reach. Sixense
Play buttonKayaking Phantom Covert Ops — How nDreams is making a covert stealth game in a kayakVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiWho makes a covert operations stealth game where you’re in a kayak? It sounds like a dumb idea, but I played a preview of Phantom Covert Ops recently on the Oculus Quest virtual reality headset. And it
Play buttonBiomass Lone Echo II hands-on — Dodging electric fuzzballs in zero gravity isn’t simpleVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiThese fuzz ball electric creatures took a liking to me in my demo of Lone Echo II, the new virtual reality game coming from Ready At Dawn Studios and Oculus Studios in the first quarter of 2020. They trying
Play buttonBiomass Lone Echo II interview — What Ready At Dawn has learned from its third VR gameVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiIn Lone Echo II, Captain Olivia Rhodes and the android Jack are stranded on a strange spaceship near the rings of Saturn. They have to explore the environment and find a way to safety amid mysterious I
Play buttonEnix Just Cause 4 gets Los Demonios DLC and spring update on July 3VentureBeat - Dean TakahashiDemons in Just Cause 4? Why not. The crazy over-the-top shooter has a lot of zany things in it, and today Square Enix is announcing that the Los Demonios downloadable content (DLC) for Just Cause 4 will
HQ Trivia aims for comeback with new cash prizes and a new hostVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiHQ Trivia has seen some highs and lows over the past couple of years. The company saw a meteoric rise for its live trivia contests, and it saw an equally abrupt decline in its live audience. Its founding
Play button Asgard’s Wrath — How Sanzaru is crafting a 30-hour Norse saga game in VRVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiAsgard’s Wrath is one of the full triple-A games in the works for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The Oculus Studios game is a sword-fighting action adventure title set in the universe of Norse
Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Premiere Rush launches on AndroidVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersAdobe Premiere Rush, Adobe’s cross-platform video editor for smartphones, tablets, and PCs, has arrived on select Android devices following a broad launch last year on PC, Mac, and iOS. It’s available
Meal delivery kit company Sun Basket raises $30 million to roll out new food productsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersYou can’t beat the convenience of ready-to-prep foodstuff delivered right to your doorstep, which is why analysts at Hexa Research predict the global meal kit delivery segment will reach $8.94 billion
Modsy raises $37 million for shoppable 3D room remodelingVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersModsy, a San Francisco-based startup developing a platform that lets property owners create virtual renderings of rooms and restyle them in real time, today announced that it’s raised $37 million in funding
