GamingNews

Activision Blizzard discloses environment, social, and governance efforts

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Activision Blizzard has released its first-ever report on its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments. The report focuses on how the company is championing its people, advancing more diverse and inclusive communities, and helping to protect our planet. What does that mean? The big video game publisher said…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Transform 2021 puts the spotlight on women in AI

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. VentureBeat is proud to bring back the Women in AI Breakfast and Awards online for Transform 2021. In the male-dominated tech industry, women are constantly faced with the gender equity gap. There is…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: AI helps companies design physical products

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. This week in a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers at Google detailed how they used AI to design the next generation of tensor processing units (TPU), the company’s application-specific integrated circuits optimized for AI workloads. While the work wasn’t novel — Google’s been refining the technique…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Can we afford AI?

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Of all the concerns surrounding artificial intelligence these days — and no, I don’t mean evil robot overlords, but more mundane things like job replacement and security — perhaps none is more…
NewsSpace

NASA Approves Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Continue Development

. NASA Approves Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Continue Development The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts. NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful mission review, authorizing the mission to…
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MobileNews

Android 12 Beta 2: Hands-on with yet more new features [Video]

Android 12 Beta 2 may have come early, but it comes pre-packed with features that you can get to grips with right now – so long as you’re running the latest build that is. We’ve showcased what we consider the biggest or top features in Android 12 Beta 2, so go check…
MobileNews

Google lays out Privacy Sandbox commitments as UK regulator seeks public comment

The Privacy Sandbox is Google’s initiative for building a more private web, and a key aspect involves phasing out support for third-party cookies in Chrome through an alternative called FLoC. Given Google’s reach, the change was always going to be contentious, and it today offered a series of Privacy Sandbox commitments. They were born out of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority…
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