GamingNews

Take-Two’s Private Division welcomes competition from Epic Games

Gaming has seen something of a continental drift for years. The biggest games are ballooning into more massive projects. And on the other end, a deluge of indie creators are flooding digital stores with smaller releases. And in the middle? Almost nothing. But publishing company Take-Two Interactive Entertainment has spent the last few years attempting to address that with its Private Division…
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PUBG comes to Google Stadia

Google revealed during today’s Stadia Connect video presentation that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now available for the cloud gaming platform. The Stadia version of PUBG, the Pioneer Edition, will cost $40. It is free for Stadia Pro users. It includes the base game and the Cold Front Survivor Pass, along with a Stadia skin set. PUBG launched in 2018, and it helped ignite the battle royale…
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AI & RoboticsNews

BrainBox raises $8.59 million to optimize HVAC systems with AI

Autonomous building tech startup BrainBox AI today announced the closure of a $12 million Canadian (~$8.59 million)  convertible debt round, which it plans to put toward expansion in North America (particularly its home market of Canada) and international markets like the U.K., Ireland, and Australia. The cash infusion comes as companies unaffected by shelter-in-place orders aim to head off the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

MIT presents AI frameworks that compress models and encourage agents to explore

In a pair of papers accepted to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020, MIT researchers investigated new ways to motivate software agents to explore their environment and pruning algorithms to make AI apps run faster. Taken together, the twin approaches could foster the development of autonomous industrial, commercial, and home machines that require less computation…
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