Apple CEO Tim Cook has never commented on future, unannounced Apple products, but that doesn’t stop investors and analysts from trying ever quarter. During Apple’s Q1 2020 earnings call today, Cook was again asked about Apple’s plans for 5G.
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty tried to acknowledge the obvious. “At some point in the future, Apple will launch a 5G iPhone,” she said. The…
Sensor Tower: Nintendo mobile games have earned $1 billion
January 29, 2020
Nintendo‘s mobile games have earned a combined $1 billion in revenue, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
This includes six games from Nintendo, starting with Super Mario Run in 2016. The latest, Mario Kart Tour, released in September. 2017’s Fire Emblem: Heroes…
The Pokémon Company and Nintendo announced today that Pokémon Home will launch in February for Android, iOS, and Switch.
Pokémon Home is an app that will make it easier for fans of the monster-collecting franchise to store, trade, and transfer Pokémon among different…
Bandai Namco previews 7 action and RPG titles for 2020
January 29, 2020
Japanese game publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment showed off seven action and role-playing titles that it expects will debut in 2020.
At a preview event in San Francisco, I played most of the games that the company displayed. They ranged from Bless Unleashed, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that debuted in 2019, to Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions, an anime-based…
Directly raises $20 million to improve customer service with AI
January 29, 2020
According to CustomerTheromometer, 54% of people have higher expectations for customer service today than just one year ago. Antony Brydon, Jean Tessier, and Jeff Patterson argue that a degree of automation is required to keep up with demand. The three are cofounders of…
Roughly a year ago, Google open-sourced MediaPipe, a framework for building cross-platform AI pipelines consisting of fast inference and media processing (like video decoding). Basically, it’s a quick and dirty way to perform object detection, face detection, hand…
Google’s AI powers real-time orca tracking in Vancouver Bay
January 29, 2020
Google AI today shared that it’s created a model for detecting an endangered species of orca whales in the Salish Sea, a waterway between the United States and Canada. Underwater microphones situated at a dozen points in the Salish Sea that includes the state of Washington and Vancouver Bay are used to alert officials when a Southern Resident killer whale is detected.
Less than 100 of these…
The number of people of all ages who are visually impaired is estimated to be 285 million globally, of whom 39 million are blind. In an effort to provide assistance where it can, Microsoft in 2016 launched Project Tokyo, a partnership among researchers in the U.S., U.K.
VentureBeat’s Tech Showcase is back at Transform 2020: Accelerating your business with AI, July 15-16 in San Francisco. We’re on the lookout for disruptive AI companies of all sizes that are ready to present their tech on the main stage.
Those selected to present will do…
Meena is Google’s attempt at making true conversational AI
January 29, 2020
Conversational AI is a catch-all term for natural language models for artificial intelligence that can interpret human words, speak to people, or carry out tasks or computation with natural language.
But talk to any of the best-known AI assistants today — Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant — and they’re not exactly conversational. They can tell you jokes, answer factual questions, and even…
