Technology Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Task Manager, virtual desktop, and mouse cursor improvementsVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiMicrosoft today released a new Windows 10 preview with Task Manager, virtual desktop, mouse cursor, Notepad, and Chinese IME improvements. The update bumps Windows 10 from build 18956 (made available testers
Apex Legends Apex Legends dev Respawn admits it messed up Iron CrownVentureBeat - Jeff GrubbRespawn screwed up. Apex Legends has a new event called Iron Crown that introduces a number of exciting cosmetics. But one problem: The business model to acquire many of those items has, once again, outraged
Mobile Technology Google open-sources Live Transcribe’s speech engineVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiGoogle today open-sourced the speech engine that powers its Android speech recognition transcription tool Live Transcribe. The company hopes doing so will let any developer deliver captions for long-form
Play buttonBrain Implant AI Weekly: Humans shouldn’t relegate essential skills to AIVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonEarlier this month, AI startup DataSparQ introduced AI Bar, a system that automates the selection of who’s got next for drink orders. It’s being used at 5cc Harrild & Sons in London and has some initial
Play button How Cloudhead Games and Valve worked together on Aperture Hand LabVentureBeat - Ian Hamilton, UploadVROver the last five years Denny Unger and his partners at Cloudhead Games would talk about possible VR projects with some of the world’s largest companies. Cloudhead staff would build pitch decks and work
Play buttonOculus Quest Oculus Quest keeps improving in important but screenshot-defying waysVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzLike almost everyone who writes about virtual reality, I struggle on a daily basis with the knowledge that the new medium defies easy descriptions — it’s sometimes like trying to explain the appeal of
Katowice Small towns are building esports meccasVentureBeat - Luke WinkieFor centuries, Katowice was a mining town. The first settlers were craftsmen in the 18th century, who arrived in the lowlands of Southern Poland after hearing rumors of the rich coal deposits hidden in
Play buttonFlight Simulators Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Insider Program is go for takeoffVentureBeat - Jeff GrubbMicrosoft Flight Simulator is taking to the skies in 2020, but the publisher is sharing details about the current state of development beginning today. Microsoft launched the game’s Insider Program, and
Amazon Web Services ProBeat: Breakthrough or BS, Amazon’s Rekognition is dangerousVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiLike all tech giants, Amazon is regularly criticized for various policies and practices. But no issue has been as contentious this year as selling its facial recognition tech Rekognition to law enforcement.
Play buttonOracle Oracle is using ‘intelligent automation’ to do far more than automate repetitive tasksVentureBeat - VB StaffWhile Forrester predicts that the market for RPA (robotic process automation) will reach $2.9 billion in 2021, and many companies are well down the road with it, not a lot of companies are using it correctly
MacOS Catalina Apple’s Corellium lawsuit is a direct attack on iOS emulationVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzIf you’ve been following Apple for a while, you probably already know that the company doesn’t like emulators — at least, most of them. Years ago, it shut down efforts to replicate the iPod’s interface
SEGA The RetroBeat: Strider is the craziest 16-bit game I never playedVentureBeat - Mike MinottiWhen I turned on the Genesis Mini that Sega sent me, I first went for Mega Man: The Wily Wars (for reasons I’ve detailed before on this column). After that, I played the familiar classics: Sonic the Hedgehog,
Tetris Tetris 99’s weekend event is a Fire Emblem: Three Houses crossoverVentureBeat - Jeff GrubbTetris 99 is getting a new Grand Prix event next weekend. Beginning August 22 at around 10 p.m. Pacific time, players can participate in Grand Prix No. 6 in the Nintendo Switch Online’s last-player-standing
Play buttonNintendo Nintendo announces Indie World video event with 20 minutes of gamesVentureBeat - Jeff GrubbNintendo Indie World is coming. The company is planning to use this event to show off a bunch of new indie games for the Switch. On Monday, August 19, it will broadcast Indie World to Twitch, YouTube,
Nintendo The DeanBeat: The gray areas of video game violence and addictionVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiWhen President Donald Trump met with video game leaders about violence in games in March 2018, the industry worried he would use games as a scapegoat for mass shootings. Instead, Trump showed his cards
Wolfenstein Origin PC EVO16-S review — Awesome RTX graphics with a noisy fanVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiThe funny folks at Origin PC sent me a laptop with a custom Cuphead panel on the cover. So what the heck. I tried out the Origin PC Evo 16-S, a heavy-duty laptop with Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics. It’s
Instagram Instagram adds tool for reporting false informationVentureBeat - Reuters(Reuters) — Instagram is adding an option for users to report posts they think are false, the company announced on Thursday, as the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site tries to stem misinformation and other
Play buttonLaptops Sam Barlow’s Telling Lies thriller game debuts on August 23VentureBeat - Dean TakahashiSam Barlow and Annapurna Interactive announced that Telling Lies, an interactive investigation thriller game, debuts on August 23 on the PC, Mac, and iOS devices. The game, which is available for pre-order
Russia My.Games will launch global game store in Q4VentureBeat - Dean TakahashiMy.Games is a Russian game publisher that is going global. And so the company announced today that its My.Games Store will debut in the fourth quarter. Developers and publishers will be able to distribute
Jensen Huang Nvidia CEO: AI is the single most powerful force of our timeVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiNvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI would drive long-term demand because it is the “single most powerful force of our time.” Nvidia reported earnings and revenues that beat analysts’ expectations as demand
Alexa Amazon launches Custom Interfaces for Alexa skills to deepen connections with games and gadgetsVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonAmazon has maintained a steady focus on connecting home devices with its Echo smart speakers, from forging ties with more than 60,000 smart home devices to efforts to make Alexa a resource for gamers consoles
Nintendo Switch NPD: Nintendo Switch leads another down month for hardwareVentureBeat - Jeff GrubbNintendo Switch was the best-selling console in July, but overall hardware sales were down big-time. Industry-tracking firm The NPD Group released its July report today, and it confirms that U.S. consumers
Madden NFL July 2019 NPD: Nintendo assembles 6 games in the top 10VentureBeat - Jeff GrubbConsumers in the United States spent less on hardware once again in July, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. But a deluge of new releases pushed up software sales. PC & Video Games Software
Nintendo Fire Emblem: Three Houses easily has the series’ best U.S. debutVentureBeat - Mike MinottiFire Emblem: Three Houses was the No. 2 best-selling game in the U.S. in July, according to information released today by the industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. It was behind only Madden NFL 20‘s sales,
Apple Watch iOS 13 beta images point to Apple media event on September 10VentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzRumors and informed speculation have pointed to the likely timing of Apple’s next media event, and the latest piece of evidence — images found by iHelpBR in today’s seventh beta release of iOS 13 — appears
Nvidia Nvidia reports $2.58 billion in Q2 revenue as AI and graphics demand strengthensVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiNvidia reported earnings and revenues that beat analysts’ expectations as demand for graphics and artificial intelligence chips picked up in the second fiscal quarter. Nvidia reported revenues of $2.58
Siri Google Assistant tops 2019 digital assistance IQ test, but every AI posts gainsVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzFollowing up on last year’s impressive comparison of personal AI solutions, Loup Ventures today released the results of its 2019 Digital Assistant IQ Test, and there’s good news if you enjoy giving voice
Game Development Kate Edwards will head the Global Game Jam indie groupVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiThe Global Game Jam announced that the outspoken video games industry veteran Kate Edwards has joined the organization as executive director. Edwards will lead and community outreach for the nonprofit
Drones AI startup Gather uses drones and computer vision for warehouse inventoryVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonGather, a company that uses autonomous drones for warehouse inventory, launched out of stealth today. Founded in 2017, the company of about 10 employees is based in Pittsburgh. Gather’s founding team made
Apple Corephotonics lawsuit portrays ‘innovative’ Apple as a devious copycatVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzIt’s not exactly “news” that Apple allegedly stole Corephotonics’ multi-lens smartphone camera technologies to use in iPhones. While the Israeli company filed a new lawsuit alleging as much yesterday PatentlyApple),
