AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook’s ReAgent is a toolkit for reinforcement learning and reasoning AI

Facebook AI Research today introduced ReAgent, a reinforcement learning toolkit for building decision-making AI that can receive feedback. ReAgent can assign scores to user actions and treat user input such as clicking on recommended content as training data. ReAgent is a small C++ library available for download on GitHub designed to be embedded in any application. The toolkit comes with a set of…
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GamingNews

Twitch CEO Emmett Shear on how moderation creates communities

At this year’s TwitchCon in San Diego — a celebratory, over-the-top affair that brought in streamers and fans from all over the world — I sat down with Twitch CEO Emmett Shear who co-founded the first iteration of the site and who’s been steering the ship ever since…
AI & RoboticsNews

Apply now to speak at Transform 2020, the premiere AI event for business leaders

VB’s Transform is the most important AI event of the year for business and technical leaders, and it’s earned that reputation because of the quality of our content and the caliber of speakers. Transform 2020 takes place July 15-16 in San Francisco, and the application to be a part of its stellar roster is now open. We’re looking for AI practitioners who have real-world experience with AI-…
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GamingNews

Fortnite is exciting again

Fortnite has proved once again that it’s one of the most boundary-pushing video games out there. Following a shocking gamble that saw the game pulled offline for nearly 48 hours, players were reminded that Epic Games’ battle royale hit is in a league of its own when it…
AI & RoboticsNews

Quantemplate raises over $12 million for AI insurance and reinsurance data solutions

Quantemplate, a startup providing self-service, cloud-based automated data solutions for insurers and reinsurers, today revealed that it raised over $12 million in a recent funding round led by Route 66 Ventures and Transamerica Ventures, with participation from Anthemis Group, Allianz X, and Insight Catastrophe Group. The raise brings the New York- and London-based company’s total raised to…
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MobileNews

Android 10-based MIUI 11 road map revealed w/ Poco F1 update date

Xiaomi’s Android-based MIUI 11 road map has been revealed via the official MIUI India Twitter account, where they confirmed that the update will roll out from October 22. Just last month we saw the Pocophone head confirm on his social media accounts that the Pocophone F1 would get the Android 10 MIUI 11 update from “mid-Oct.” It turns out that was pretty much on the money as far as…
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