The follow-up to the genuinely superb OnePlus 7 Pro is right around the corner even with delays and setbacks due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Despite that, the rumor mill has been in full flow with the OnePlus 8 series.
Leaks have actually been kept to a minimum, which is one thing that OnePlus actually manages to do better than most manufacturers. By that, we mean the physical device…
Supply chain integrity platform provider Overhaul today announced that it has raised $17.5 million, which CEO Barry Conlon said will be used to bolster its product offerings and grow its Austin-based team, as well as its European headquarters in Ireland. The funds will also…
BackboneAI, a startup providing a data automation platform for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $4.7 million in seed funding. CEO Rob Bailey says the round will be used to scale the company’s product for data collection within and among organizations, which he…
Promethean AI lets neophytes use their voice to create amazing game environments in minutes
March 11, 2020
Promethean AI enables people with no programming or digital art experience to create amazing game environments with voice commands.
If you doubt this, check out the video embedded in this post. The Ugandan animation students in it were neophytes at creating elaborate scenes for games. But Andrew Maximov, CEO of Promethean AI in Los Angeles, flew to Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, and gave a…
Amazon scientists are prototyping algorithms that use crowdsourcing to identify product data, the company reports in a blog post. The researchers believe these algorithms could be used to predict human judgments of product quality on Amazon, which might improve people’s…
European Twilio rival MessageBird has launched a new all-in-one, AI-powered contact center as it enters the billion-dollar customer service software market.
Inbox, as the product is called, is a cross-channel customer service platform that’s pitched as the “Slack for…
In a recent study, researchers at Google proposed Efficiently Learning an Encoder that Classifies Token Replacements Accurately (ELECTRA), an AI language training technique that outperforms existing methods given the same amount of computing resources. This week, months after its publication, the coauthors released the codebase (and pretrained models) for TensorFlow, laying the groundwork for…
A preprint paper coauthored by scientists at Facebook AI Research describes Rewarding Impact-Driven Exploration (RIDE), an intrinsic reward method that encourages AI-driven agents to take actions in an environment. The researchers say that it outperforms state-of-the-art…
Blockchain Game Partners is building a blockchain-based infrastructure dubbed Gala to enable games where players own their own content and platforms don’t fleece developers for the games that they create.
It’s the brainchild of Eric Schiermeyer, the founder and CEO of…
Twenty years ago, I remember interviewing Joe Kucan, an emerging star of video game acting, for his role as the villainous Kane of Command & Conquer. His bald head and mean face epitomized why the player had to save the world from this evil.
And now he’s coming back. Kane and all of his vivid video game cinematics will be available in Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection, which…
