GamingNews

GameStop may begin selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare early

October 24, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches tonight for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 when the clock strikes midnight. But you probably don’t have to wait until October 25 to start playing the military shooter. If you purchase it digitally, Activision plans to unlock the game at 6 p.m. Pacific time (9 p.m. Eastern). But if you preordered the physical edition from GameStop, do you have to wait until…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Incode raises $10 million to verify identities with AI

October 24, 2019
Incode, a San Francisco startup developing what it describes as an omnichannel biometric identity platform, today announced that it’s raised $10 million in seed funding from undisclosed investors. Founder and CEO Ricardo Amper said that the newfound capital will enable…
GamingNews

Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard after years as Xbox services boss

October 24, 2019
Blizzard Entertainment is getting a new executive from Microsoft. Mike Ybarra is taking on the role of executive vice president and general manager at the Overwatch and World of Warcraft publisher. This comes two weeks after Ybarra left his long-time position on…
AI & RoboticsNews

National Grid Partners invests in 3 more AI and energy infrastructure startups

October 24, 2019
National Grid Partners, the investment arm of big power company National Grid, announced it has invested in three new startups in artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, bringing its portfolio of investments in the past year to 18 companies. NGP has invested in CNIguard, SparkCognition, and Uniphore. To date, NGP has invested $125 million of its $250 million venture fund in emerging…
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MobileNews

Motorola Solutions’ ViQi is an intelligent assistant for first responders

October 24, 2019
First responders and emergency personnel often have their hands full in the field. To help deliver them the information they need without requiring them to divert their attention from the task at hand, Motorola Solutions, the data communications and telecommunications equipment provider that spun off Motorola Mobility in 2011, is launching what it describes as a virtual assistant for first…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI can help doctors spot brain hemorrhages faster

October 24, 2019
The process relied on a convolutional neural network that pored over 4,396 CT scans. That’s a comparatively small number of samples, but the abnormalities were detailed “at the pixel level,” according to UCSF. In other words, they were far less likely to…
MobileNews

Apple TV+ could be $9B business, 5G iPhone to drive AAPL in 2020

October 24, 2019
In a new investor note today, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty expressed optimism about how Apple TV+ and Apple’s other services will perform over the coming users. Huberty specifically predicted that Apple’s Services business will grow by 20% next year. As detailed by CNBC, Goldman Sachs predicts that that Apple TV+ could be a $9 billion revenue business by 2025 for Apple. That’s if…
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