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 they will use 49 HP Jet Fusion
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
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
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
Technology U.S. DOJ will reportedly oppose T-Mobile/Sprint merger despite FCC nodVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzWhile the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appears likely to approve the proposed merger of third- and fourth-place wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint, the Department of Justice is reportedly
Return on Investment Introducing the Conversational AI Summit. Focus will be on ROIVentureBeat - VB StaffConversational AI is arguably the most advanced and important application area for business AI right now. As such, it calls for a special focus. That’s why Transform, the “AI event of the year” will be
Jack Ma Alibaba founder Jack Ma boasts that China doesn’t have ‘rules and laws’ for the internetVentureBeat - Chris O'BrienAlibaba founder Jack Ma was greeted at the Viva Technology conference in Paris like a conquering hero. During an hour-long question-and-answer session on stage, however, he made some rather astonishing
Cloud Gaming IHS Markit: Cloud gaming earned $387 million in 2018, and could grow to $2.5 billion by 2023VentureBeat - Giancarlo ValdesCloud-based gaming is starting to heat up. In a new report from market research firm IHS Markit, cloud gaming earned $387 million in 2018, and the company predicts that number will balloon to $2.5 billion
Play buttonCEOs GamesBeat Summit 2019: 7 lightning talks in 39 minutesVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiLightning round talks have been a staple at our GamesBeat Summit events for years. And at GamesBeat Summit 2019, we featured seven more talks with interesting speakers in the game business. The speakers
RPGs Double Fine and Bandai Namco aren’t ending the world when Rad launches August 20VentureBeat - Mike MinottiDeveloper Double Fine and publisher Bandai Namco announced today that Rad will launch on August 20 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. This is Double Fine’s first project with Bandai Namco, a
Hearthstone Hearthstone is nerfing Rogue and Archivist ElysianaVentureBeat - Mike MinottiBlizzard Entertainment has announced a new wave of card nerfs that will be hitting Hearthstone on May 22. They will have a strong impact on the game’s most popular deck, Tempo Rogue, and the Rogue class
Microsoft Microsoft wants to apply AI ‘to the entire application developer lifecycle’VentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiAt its Build 2018 developer conference a year ago, Microsoft previewed Visual Studio IntelliCode, which uses AI to offer intelligent suggestions that improve code quality and productivity. In April, Microsoft
MIT MIT and U.S. Air Force launch AI accelerator programVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonMIT, one of the most prominent artificial intelligence research organizations in the United States, is developing an AI accelerator program for the U.S. Air Force. The accelerator will explore research
Tel Aviv Playtika doubles down with a new casual games labVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiPlaytika said it is launching an independent division dedicated to the creation and rapid development of casual games. The Playtika Casual Games Lab plans to launch several new games every year. This means
Sparkling Wine AI predicts new food and drink pairingsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersRobot gourmands are imminent, it seems, and they might someday craft recipes just as delicious as those from their human counterparts. In a newly published paper on the preprint server Arxiv.org (“KitcheNette:
Google Glass Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 drops to $999 and adds Qualcomm’s XR1VentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzSix years after Google Glass was unveiled, it goes without saying that the first major augmented reality headset wasn’t the massive success some imagined: The $1,500 Enterprise Edition was ultimately almost
Technology Facebook is mapping demographics, human movement, and network coverage to combat diseasesVentureBeat - Paul SawersFacebook is partnering with a handful of organizations to combat diseases using real-time maps powered by satellite imagery, computer vision, census data, and Facebook’s proprietary data. The social networking
Lung Cancer Google’s lung cancer detection AI outperforms 6 human radiologistsVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonGoogle AI researchers working with Northwestern Medicine created an AI model capable of detecting lung cancer from screening tests better than human radiologists with an average of eight years experience.
Play button Identity platform provider Auth0 raises $103 million at a valuation of $1 billionVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersOnline data breaches are on the rise, and it’s no great mystery why. In a recent survey conducted by LastPass, 59% of respondents said they reused passwords across multiple accounts and more than half
Ajit Pai FCC chair backs merger after T-Mobile and Sprint pledge 97% U.S. 5G coverage in 3 yearsVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzThird- and fourth-place U.S. cellular carriers T-Mobile and Sprint have been struggling to get regulatory approval for their merger since it was announced last year, as multiple FCC review delays and protests
Samsung Samsung’s One UI comes to Galaxy Watch, Gear S3, and SportVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzSamsung’s Galaxy Watch Active smartwatch generated plenty of attention — thanks to a sleeker design and UI enhancements over its predecessors — and now Samsung is bringing Active’s software improvements
Internet of Things Arm launches Space Analytics so property managers can use buildings betterVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiArm normally designs chips for a wide range of low-power devices. But today it is launching Space Analytics to empower property managers to better use available space in order to maximize revenue and costs.
Play buttonNvidia Nvidia robotics researchers blur line between simulation and the real worldVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonNvidia AI researchers today introduced SimOpt, an AI system trained to transfer simulated work into real-world action in order to complete tasks like putting a peg in a hole and opening and closing a The
Play buttonCognitive Computing Facebook wants to teach robots how to walkVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonFacebook AI researchers today revealed details about their robot training efforts, including an initiative to teach a six-legged hexapod robot to walk. “Our goal is to reduce the number of interactions
Huawei Google’s Huawei restrictions are a wake-up call for all Android phone makersVentureBeat - Paul SawersHuawei’s fortunes have gone from bad to worse, as news emerged last night that Google will stop providing the company with support for Android and Google services. The move was made in response to a U.S.
Technology Siemplify raises $30 million to streamline security tool managementVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersSiemplify, a New York and Tel Aviv security orchestration platform provider, today announced that it’s secured $30 million in series C funding led by Georgian Partners, with participation from existing
U.S. Postal Service Driverless truck startup TuSimple teams up with the USPS to haul trailers between Phoenix and DallasVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersSelf-driving vehicle startup TuSimple nabbed a notable new client recently: the United States Postal Service (USPS). This morning, the company revealed that the Postal Service has awarded it a contract
Marvel Entertainment Marvel and NetEase will collaborate on new original entertainmentVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiMarvel and NetEase are collaborating to create new original entertainment, including games, TV shows, and comic books based on Marvel’s universe of superhero characters. Guangzhou, China-based NetEase
Tyffon raises $7.8 million to expand its free-roam VR locations to the U.S.VentureBeat - Dean TakahashiTyffon, a graduate of the Disney Accelerator program, has raised $7.8 million to expand its free-roam virtual reality experience locations from Japan to the U.S. The company will open a Tyffonium venue
