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Facebook Sets its Sights on Yelp with a New App Called Local (Quartz)

The new app will still track events, and even offer curated suggestions for local events you might want to attend. But its main focus now is on surfacing places to visit, partially... More

IBM’s Quest to Design the ‘New Helvetica’ (Co.Design)

IBM is no stranger to icons. Over the years, it’s created quite a few: the mainframe computer, the ThinkPad laptop, the Selectric typewriter, the Eye-Bee-M logo. The company hope... More

HBO Launches Steven Soderbergh’s Interactive Storytelling App ‘Mosaic’ Ahead of TV Premiere (Variety)

Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s latest project, “Mosaic,” is launching first as an app that lets viewers choose the narrative outcome of a murder mystery. HBO on Wednesday d... More

What’s Holding Back VR? (TechCrunch)

The nature of the technology, for starters. VR is not a tweak to an existing platform; it is a tectonic shift in how we interact with information and each other. It engages our sen... More

Apple to Ramp Up Work on Augmented Reality Headset (Bloomberg)

Apple Inc., seeking a breakthrough product to succeed the iPhone, aims to have technology ready for an augmented-reality headset in 2019 and could ship a product as early as 2020. ... More

OpenText Further Enables Enterprise AI with Release 16 Enhancement Pack 3 (MESA)

OpenText today announced the availability of OpenText Release 16 Enhancement Pack 3. This release delivers improved analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities via OpenText ... More

Millicom Deploys TiVo’s Next-Generation User Experience Platform in Colombia, with Plans to Expand Across Latin America (SSN)

TiVo announced that Millicom, a leading provider of cable and mobile services for more than 57 million customers in Latin America and Africa, has selected TiVo’s next-generation ... More

IBM’s Watson Puts the AI in Air Travel (TechWire Asia)

Even the best safety record of any airline can, of course, be worked on, and Korean Air has taken a technological step to improve its safety record even further, by utilizing machi... More

The A-E of eSports (Irdeto Perspective)

D: Digital dialogue with millennials-Now here’s why the brands are really buzzed. Advertising dollars! eSports fans are overwhelmingly young and online who typically don’t watc... More

Cisco Spark Assistant Bringing Voice Commands to Meeting Hardware (TechCrunch)

Anyone who has used modern meeting software knows it’s still fraught with challenges trying to get everyone into the meeting, futzing with the hardware or software and smoothly i... More

Can Blockchain, AI Accelerate the Arrival of the IoT Economy? (Forbes)

The collective network of connected devices known as the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is growing. Gartner estimates that there will be 8.4B IoT devices by 2020. The bulk of this growth... More

Is VR the Future of Content? Here’s What Netflix and Dolby Have to Say (NDTV)

"VR is a very differentiated thing, and there are areas where VR has a very strong impact, like gaming for example," says Mathias Bendull, Head of Consumer Audio Playback, Broadcas... More

Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy (HBR)

There is a fundamental disconnect between the wealth of digital data available to us and the physical world in which we apply it. While reality is three-dimensional, the rich data ... More

Artificial Intelligence Investing Gets Ready for Prime Time (Forbes)

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines that teach themselves. Much of AI’s growth has occurred in the last decade. The u... More

The eSports Industry is Booming – Can Blockchain Supercharge It? (Forbes)

The growth of a multiplayer game and its viability for esports depends heavily on the community. A key problem for most gaming communities is toxicity. Toxic communities are filled... More

Apple Sees its Mobile Devices as Platform for Artificial Intelligence (Reuters)

Later this week, Apple is set to begin taking pre-orders for its new smartphone, the iPhone X – which starts at $999 and uses artificial intelligence (AI) features embedded in th... More

Facebook Finally Adapts to 4K Video (TechCrunch)

If you’re sick of your beautiful videos looking crummy on Facebook, there’s good news for you. After some super HD videos started popping up on the social network, Facebook now... More

Adobe is Bringing its AI Platform Sensei Into the Banking Industry (CNBC)

Adobe will allow banks to use its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technology to provide marketing analytics and automated personalization for customers, it was an... More

Adobe Answers Facebook with ‘Sidewinder’ Volumetric Video Technique (UploadVR)

Earlier this year Facebook debuted a technique for capturing volumetric content from a 360-degree camera — meaning you can move freely around inside the footage to see the action... More

Microsoft’s Mixed-Reality Tech is Finally Gaining Traction with Brands (Digiday)

Although its application programming interface has been open to developers since March 2016, Microsoft’s HoloLens, a mixed-reality headset, has not received the same attention fr... More

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