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Amazon is Launching a New Alexa App (CNBC)

Amazon is starting to roll out a totally redesigned Alexa app for Apple’s iPhone, tablets and phones running Google’s Android platform, and its own Fire tablets. While Alexa is... More

MLB to Launch Oculus VR Live Streams (SportsPro)

Major League Baseball has launched a new Oculus Quest-supported virtual reality platform that allows subscribers to the league’s MLB.tv subscription service to live stream out-of... More

Fox Sports Adding ‘Virtual Fans’ to Empty Baseball Stadiums (TechCrunch)

Fox Sports is convinced it’s found a technological solution that’s totally good and fine and not at all a nightmare-inducing horror show of artificial humanity. Fox News showca... More

All the Films in This Online Festival Were Made With Adobe Stock (Muse)

Thirteen diverse creators from across the globe contributed shorts to this online film festival. They had five days to conceive, develop and complete their productions. None of the... More

CTA: 2020 a Tough Year for Most Video Device Sales (HD Guru)

The Consumer Technology Association this week issued its mid-year 2020 U.S. Consumer Technology Sales & Forecasts showing that after an initial sales spike for TVs and video device... More

The Brain Behind the Google Pixel Camera is Building a Universal Camera App for Adobe (The Verge)

Marc Levoy, the researcher who used software to turn Google’s Pixel camera into a powerhouse, has joined Adobe to build a universal camera app, Adobe announced. At Adobe, it soun... More

U.S. Video Game Spending Hit a 10-Year High in June (The Verge)

Video game spending in the US reached its highest point since 2010, according to a new NPD Group report, with sales through June reaching $6.6 billion on hardware, software, and ac... More

Adobe CIO Stoddard: AI Bots Can ‘Cut Toil,’ Reduce Demands for IT Help (VentureBeat)

While average people know Adobe mostly as the company behind Photoshop, their consumption of digital and printed content created by Adobe apps is incalculable, thanks largely to it... More

Fox Sports Launches Redesigned App (TechCrunch)

As the sports world slowly begins to emerge from the pandemic shut down with MLB scheduled to start this week, Fox Sports is launching its redesigned sports app today for Android a... More

Adoption of Veritone’s AI-Powered Public Safety Solutions Grows Across the U.S. (MESA)

Veritone announced that the company is experiencing rapid adoption of its AI-enabled public safety solutions. Hosted securely in the cloud and accessible from any browser, the Ver... More

Producers Look to Video Games for Their Next Hit (MCN)

With networks turning over every bit of popular intellectual property to see what might work on television, video games are an increasingly hot source for development.... More

Genpact is Moving Beyond Virtual Collaboration to Virtual Community Building (People Matters)

Sanjay Srivastava, Chief Digital Officer, Genpact shares how COVID-19 has accelerated consumption of cloud-based services and is fundamentally changing the way we do business.... More

Sohonet Debuts ‘Work Your Magic From Home’ Guide (MESA)

Sohonet has debuted a new work-from-home ebook, which looks at how media and entertainment teams can make home-working a success, and offers advice on how to effectively reimagine ... More

Pai: 5G Will Be Game Changer for Gaming (MCN)

FCC chairman Ajit Pai said he thinks the entertainment category that will see the most 5G-fueled growth is gaming. That was one of his main messages in a virtual speech where he sa... More

Sony Invests $250M in ‘Fortnite’ Maker Epic Games (Variety)

Sony is making a strategic investment of $250 million in Epic Games, the maker of massive hit game “Fortnite,” to acquire a minority interest in the gaming company. The compani... More

Adobe Tests an AI Recommendation Tool for Headlines, Images (TechCrunch)

Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors. This tool was built as part of the Adobe Sneak... More

Digital Nirvana Introduces MediaServicesIQ Custom AI Workflows Portal (MESA)

Digital Nirvana announced the launch of MediaServicesIQ, a comprehensive suite of cloud-based microservices that leverage advanced AI and machine-learning (ML) capabilities to stre... More

Adobe Launches Stock Film Fest to Demonstrate ‘Resourcefulness’ Amid Pandemic (THR)

Adobe is getting ready to launch its first virtual Stock Film Fest, which was formed amid the novel coronavirus pandemic to demonstrate "resourcefulness, innovation" and that "crea... More

AWS, Google, Mozilla Back National AI Research Cloud Bill in Congress (VentureBeat)

A group of more than 20 organizations, including tech giants like AWS, Google, IBM, and Nvidia, joined schools like Stanford University and Ohio State University today in backing t... More

PlayStation Unveils Indie Games Initiative (THR)

The company published a blog post detailing its plan to "make PlayStation the best place to develop, find and play great indie games."... More

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