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Avid Sports Solutions Embraced by Top Collegiate Athletic Programs Across the Country (MESA)

Avid today announced that numerous National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 schools have invested in Avid’s new generation video servers. Tightly integrated int... More

Could ‘Ready Player One’ Awaken the Sleepy VR Market? (Variety)

Steven Spielberg’s virtual-reality fantasy “Ready Player One” may help drive sales of VR headsets — which have dramatically fallen short of previous bullish forecasts — b... More

Testronic Debuts Program to Encourage More Women to Get Into the Games Industry (MESA)

Testronic has launched a new initiative to encourage more women into the games industry. The 50% Initiative is the brainchild of Ann Hurley, Head of New Business – Games West Eur... More

Immersive Virtual Reality Creates a New Currency in Storytelling (Adobe Blog)

In the last 10 years, we’ve learned to rely on connected devices — smartphones to tablets to the Internet of Things — to communicate. And today, digital technology is transfo... More

5G’s Secret Weapon Will Be Low Latency, Empowering Next-Gen VR, Gaming (VentureaBeat)

As the 2018 Mobile World Congress wound down this week, next-generation 5G wireless technology was clearly the show’s biggest story, promising dramatically faster data speeds. Bu... More

Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain: 3 Major Benefits of Combining These Two Mega-Trends (Forbes)

2. Blockchain can help us track, understand and explain decisions made by AI - Decisions made by AIs can sometimes be hard for humans to understand. This is because they are capabl... More

Ad Tech: 2018 Trends to Know in the Digital Advertising Industry (IA)

The digital advertising industry enjoyed years of lucrative and successful ad campaigns that were produced from the droves of user data made available by internet platforms. With j... More

Games Console Market Has Had its Best Year Since 2011 (CNBC)

Consumers spent more on games consoles and related services last year than at any time since 2011, according to a report. This was largely thanks to "Nintendo's record-breaking ... More

OpenText’s Chirag Patel: ‘AI is Still at the Mainframe Level’ (Computing)

"Artificial intelligence is still limited to ‘narrow' AI," said OpenText's Chirag Patel at a recent Computing event. Instead of the general purpose AI that we see from Hollywood,... More

Cisco: Blockchain Will Democratize Innovation Itself (TechRepublic)

Anoop Nannra, Cisco: "When the internet was created, what it did over the last 20-25 years is it's fundamentally democratized access to information. In the blockchain space, with t... More

Tata Communications Powers F1 TV App, Bringing Live Grand Prix Action Directly to Mobile Devices (MESA)

Tata Communications is powering the new F1® TV mobile app, which will transform how people are able to watch and engage with the sport. Starting with the 2018 season, Formula 1 wi... More

AI: The First 50 years … 10 Years Later (Expert System Blog)

Today, AI simulates the result of some cognitive processes using approaches and methods that are different from those that the human brain uses. AI is here to stay. After a long wi... More

Artificial Intelligence System Examples (Expert System Blog)

An artificial intelligence system that can do difficult tasks such as reading, understanding and learning, has for decades been one of artificial intelligence’s biggest challenge... More

Adobe Personalizes Voice (MediaPost)

Speaking with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant will begin to feel more like an interaction with a local grocery store clerk you might see weekly. On Tuesday, Adobe announced enhan... More

3 AI Terms All Business Professionals Need to Understand (VentureBeat)

Rob High, IBM: The value and utility of artificial intelligence is a hot topic today. In fact, a recent report by MIT Sloan Management Review asserts that almost 85 percent of exec... More

Google to Make Major Augmented Reality Push at Mobile World Congress (Variety)

Google is set to make a major push to bring augmented reality technology (AR) to Android at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, Variety has learned from sources familiar ... More

Good News: AI is Getting Cheaper – That’s Also Bad News (NY Times)

On Tuesday, a group of artificial intelligence researchers and policymakers from prominent labs and think tanks in both the United States and Britain released a report that describ... More

Chasing AI Breakthroughs: Q&A with Director of New MIT-IBM Lab (Xconomy)

David Cox ON specific metrics for success with this AI lab: "There are many short-term metrics that one might look at, such as scientific papers published or patents filed, but wha... More

What Blockchain Challenges Mean for Advertising (MediaPost)

John Bates, director of product marketing at Adobe Analytics Cloud: "There are many inefficiencies in the media supply chain because it involves many manual processes across many c... More

A New Reality Awaits: Are AR and VR the Next Big Platforms in Telecoms? (Telecom Tech)

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have the potential to become the next big platforms after PC, web, and mobile. Isolated applications of AR and VR have been around f... More

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