GamingNews

Activision Blizzard discloses environment, social, and governance efforts

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Activision Blizzard has released its first-ever report on its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments. The report focuses on how the company is championing its people, advancing more diverse and inclusive communities, and helping to protect our planet. What does that mean? The big video game publisher said…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Transform 2021 puts the spotlight on women in AI

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. VentureBeat is proud to bring back the Women in AI Breakfast and Awards online for Transform 2021. In the male-dominated tech industry, women are constantly faced with the gender equity gap. There is…
AI & RoboticsNews

This AI system learned to understand videos by watching YouTube

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Humans understand events in the world contextually, performing what’s called multimodal reasoning across time to make inferences about the past, present, and future. Given text and an image that seems innocuous when considered separately — e.g., “Look how many people love you” and a picture of a barren desert —…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Can we afford AI?

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Of all the concerns surrounding artificial intelligence these days — and no, I don’t mean evil robot overlords, but more mundane things like job replacement and security — perhaps none is more overlooked than cost. This is understandable, considering AI has the potential to lower the cost of doing business in so many…
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MobileNews

Android 12 Beta 2: Hands-on with yet more new features [Video]

Android 12 Beta 2 may have come early, but it comes pre-packed with features that you can get to grips with right now – so long as you’re running the latest build that is. We’ve showcased what we consider the biggest or top features in Android 12 Beta 2, so go check…
MobileNews

Google lays out Privacy Sandbox commitments as UK regulator seeks public comment

The Privacy Sandbox is Google’s initiative for building a more private web, and a key aspect involves phasing out support for third-party cookies in Chrome through an alternative called FLoC. Given Google’s reach, the change was always going to be contentious, and it today offered a series of Privacy Sandbox commitments. They were born out of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority…
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