UBM TechWeb unveiled the 39th edition of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) that will take place from March17 to to March 21 in SF.Read More
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Jeonghee “JJ” Jeong aims to build the Americas at NCSoft as she did at Pearl Abyss
Jeonghee “JJ” Jin spent a lot of time growing the business of Pearl Abyss in the Americas, as she headed Pearl Abyss America for almost eight years.Read More
X Games will test AI from Google Cloud for judging snowboarding competitions
Making its debut in Aspen, X Games will leverage AI technology from Google Cloud to enhance objectivity in subjectively judged sports. The aim is to deepen fan engagement, and provide valuable insights that resonate with both fans and athletes, said Jeremy Bloom, CEO of X Games and a veteran of the sports business, in an interview with GamesBeat. X…Read More
Smithsonian and others will use Filecoin to safeguard digital culture heritage
Filecoin Foundation is stepping up today to preserve cultural artifacts in digital form using its decentralized network technology.Read More
Open-source DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning to match OpenAI o1 — at 95% less cost
The company developed DeepSeek-R1 by using pure reinforcement learning on top of DeepSeek-V3-Base, and matched or beat o1 on some benchmarks.Read More
Sci-fi author Alan Dean Foster moves into gaming with Pomme studio deal for Midworld — exclusive
Best-selling sci-fi author Alan Dean Foster is moving into gaming in a multi-license deal with studio Pomme, starting with a game based on his Midworld novel.Read More
Hamilton raises $1.7M to tokenize real-world assets on Bitcoin
Hamilton, a protocol specializing in tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) on Bitcoin, has raised a $1.7 million pre-seed funding round.Read More
AI comes alive: From bartenders to surgical aides to puppies, tomorrow’s robots are on their way
Beyond performing tasks, machines will integrate into our social fabric, requiring us to navigate new relationships with technology.Read More
TikTok shuts down in the U.S.
TikTok just ran out of tiktoks as the countdown ended for the app’s time in the U.S. In the early hours of January 19, the wildly popular short-form video app went dark. The shutdown left me (and millions of other users) in shock as they were greeted with a message saying, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now” or an imag…Read More
Anthropomorphizing AI: Dire consequences of mistaking human-like for human have already emerged
Anthropomorphizing AI creates dangerous blind spots in business decision-making beyond simple operational inefficiencies.Read More