GamingNews

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata proved it was better to be loved than feared

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Even before his death in 2015 at the age of 55, gamers were mythologizing former Nintendo chief executive officer Satoru Iwata. He was the CEO that took a pay cut rather than lay off employees during the lean days of the Wii U. And while working as a programmer at Hal Laboratories, he coded a solution to fit…
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AI & RoboticsNews

SambaNova raises $676M to mass-produce AI training and inference chips

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. SambaNova Systems, a startup developing chips for AI workloads, today announced it has raised $676 million, valuing the company at more than $5 billion post-money. SambaNova says it plans to expand its customer base — particularly in the datacenter market — as it becomes one of the most capitalized AI…
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NewsPhotography

How Fujifilm Changed My Photography

I am not brand loyal. I merely see a camera as a piece of technology that enables me to push my creative process. However, that being said, it doesn’t mean that all cameras are the same. Each system from the various companies out there brings with them both pros and cons…
AI & RoboticsNews

Informatica modernizes iPaaS platform using microservices and AI

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. At its online Informatica World event today, Informatica announced a cloud platform that employs microservices and an AI engine to combine data management capabilities and enable data and application programming interface (API) integration. The Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is a revamped…
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MobileNews

Apple TV+ announces ‘Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong’ documentary

Apple TV+ has announced its latest original film: “Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong.” The company describes this as the “definitive” documentary about Armstrong. The documentary is produced under Apple’s first-look agreement with Imagine Documentaries and will be directed by Sacha Jenkins, Julie Anderson, Sara Bernstein, and Justin Wilken. Brian Grazer and Ron…
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