AI & RoboticsNews

Fireflies raises $5 million for its AI assistant for meetings

October 30, 2019
Fireflies.ai announced the close of a $5 million seed round today to grow its business and continue its effort to create an AI assistant dedicated to surfacing action items and next steps from what people say in meetings. The seed round was led by Canaan Partners along with F7 Ventures and angel investors like former Slack CPO April Underwood, former Slack CMO Bill Macaitis, and Salesforce…
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GamingNews

EA's 'NBA Live' franchise is out for the season, again

October 30, 2019
One again, EA’s NBA franchise is skipping a season, as the company announced during today’s earnings call that NBA Live 20 has been cancelled. Three months ago the project was simply delayed with plans for a “different approach,” but that won’t be enough. In a…
AI & RoboticsNews

Reid Hoffman on AI, defense, and ethics when scaling a startup

October 30, 2019
LinkedIn cofounder and Greylock Partners investor Reid Hoffman tells executives who are running startups that scale fast — the kind who want to double in size every few months — to build ethics into their businesses. As companies plan for the future and grow their engineering or sales ranks, they should consider what can go wrong, he said, and hire people whose job is dedicated to risk…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook highlights AI that converts 2D objects into 3D shapes

October 30, 2019
State-of-the-art machine learning algorithms can extract two-dimensional objects from photographs and render them faithfully in three dimensions. It’s a technique that’s applicable to augmented reality apps and robotics as well as navigation, which is why it’s an acute area of research for Facebook. In a blog post today ahead of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in…
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ComputersNews

Razer game controller turns your phone into a wannabe Switch

October 30, 2019
Razer had one more mobile gaming accessory in store today, and this one will seem… familiar. Its newly released Junglecat controller effectively turns your phone into an ad hoc Nintendo Switch. If you have a Razer Phone 2, Galaxy Note 9 or Galaxy S10+ (plus the P30 Pro…
GamingNews

Fortnite’s black hole teases the future of entertainment

October 30, 2019
As audiences have embraced on-demand video services, algorithmic feeds, and an ever-growing number of digital “things to do,” our collective attentions have become hyper-fragmented. Yet we know that audiences actually love shared live experiences. Jeopardy is more fun…
MobileNews

Xbox-to-Android game streaming is available in preview

October 30, 2019
You can finally stream your Xbox One games to your phone, provided you meet some rather specific criteria. Microsoft has launched an Xbox Console Streaming preview that enables playing your installed Xbox One games (this isn’t the Project xCloud service, to be clear) on Android devices. You’ll need to be a US- or UK-based Xbox Insider on the Alpha or Alpha Skip-Ahead rings, and you’ll have…
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