Facebook today announced that it plans to cancel its 2020-2021 in-person AI Residency program as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In a statement provided to VentureBeat via email, Facebook vice president of AI Jerome Pesenti said that the decision was motivated by health and safety concerns.
“We continue to put the health and safety of our community first as we respond to changes…
Back in February, Google laid out plans for three Android 11 developer previews and betas. The company delivered the first half on that schedule amid COVID-19, but today announced a change that sees Android 11 DP4 this month instead of the first consumer beta.
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Microsoft’s AI ethics committee helped craft internal Department of Defense contract policy, and G20 member nations wouldn’t have passed AI ethics principles if it weren’t for Japanese leadership. That’s according to a case study examining projects at Microsoft…
Runa Capital has closed its third investment fund with $157 million to back startups in deep tech areas such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
The firm said Runa Capital Fund III surpassed its target of $135 million. The new capital will allow the company to continue its strategy of making investments that range between $1 million and $10 million in early-stage companies.
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Fortnite is one of the biggest games in the world, but what does that mean? Well, developer Epic Games revealed that it has surpassed 350 million registered players. In April alone, those players spent 3.2 billion hours in the battle royale shooter. Those huge numbers also…
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Women still only see about 2.7% of total investment funding, but the number of women developers are on the rise. At this year’s GamesBeat 2020 Digital, over 20% of attendees were women-identified, about the same ratio of women in the industry. And over…
Google today launched the fourth Android 11 developer preview with app compatibility and performance improvements. This is significant — an Android 11 Developer Preview 4 wasn’t supposed to exist. Android 11 Beta 1 was supposed to arrive in May. Hence the other piece of news today: There’s a new release schedule that pushes Beta 1 to June 3, Beta 2 to July, and Beta 3 to August.
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You may not have heard of Blloc, but the Berlin-based company is working on the very impressive Ratio — a launcher aimed at fundamentally changing the way you see and use your smartphone.
We, unfortunately, didn’t get any hands-on time with the minimal Blloc Zero 18…
While Google I/O is no longer happening this year, many of the company’s planned announcements, especially for developers, are still going forward as intended. Today, Flutter, Google’s massively cross-platform app development framework, is launching its first stable…
In March, exclusively revealed Google’s plans for a new Chromecast Ultra based on Android TV, and we’ve since heard rumors about a possible rebrand of the OS to “Google TV.” A report today suggests that one aspect of this upcoming streaming dongle will be an Android TV UI redesign.
today describes a “new user interface that will put a bigger emphasis on individual movies and TV…
