How game developers win in a soft market dominated by big platforms
Source: Venture Beat During the latest stop of the GamesBeat Global Tour, Aldora CEO Joost van Dreunenbut addressed new ways to monetize and reach customers. Read Full Article
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Vizta DGTL aims to bring realistic graphics and RPG gameplay to Kutur Runway fashion game
Source: Venture Beat Vizta DGTL, a game studio based in Berlin, hopes to set the fashion world ablaze with Kutur Runway, a fashion game that embraces role-playing game mechanics, social platforms and realistic 3D graphics. The Berlin company believes the market opportunities created by early fashion games like Covet Fashion will become bigger with a…
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Interview: Panos Panay on the future of Amazon’s Kindle
Source: The Verge Amazon launched four new Kindles this week, maybe the biggest single launch day in the 17-year history of the company’s wildly successful e-reader. One of them even comes in color! It is very much not a coincidence that the launch happened roughly a year after Panos Panay joined the company. Panay, a…
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Google will once again ban election ads after the polls close
Source: The Verge Google is planning to ban advertisers from running ads related to the US presidential election after polls close on November 5th. Axios reports that this is the second time Google has decided to ban election ads once polls close, after first implementing the policy during the 2020 election. Google says it’s reenacting…
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Google is making it easier to use a password manager inside Chrome on Android
Source: The Verge Google is updating Chrome on Android next month to greatly improve how password mangers operate inside the mobile browser. Chrome on Android will allow third-party password managers to natively autofill forms on websites, improving the experience of apps like 1Password, Dashlane, and others. Google offers its own password manager in Chrome, alongside…
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Qualcomm cancels its miniature Windows on Arm PC
Source: The Verge Qualcomm has canceled its Snapdragon Dev Kit, the miniature Windows on Arm PC that was originally supposed to ship in June. In an email to customers, Qualcomm said the mini PC “has not met our usual standards of excellence” and orders will now be refunded. Qualcomm has been struggling to ship the…
Small but mighty: H2O.ai’s new AI models challenge tech giants in document analysis
Source: Venture Beat H2O.ai has released efficient vision-language models for document AI, challenging tech giants with superior performance in OCR and text recognition tasks. Read Full Article
SambaNova and Gradio are making high-speed AI accessible to everyone—here’s how it works
Source: Venture Beat SambaNova and Gradio partner to simplify AI development, offering faster inference and improved energy efficiency, challenging Nvidia’s dominance in the evolving AI chip market. Read Full Article
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Amazon will stream a live election special hosted by Brian Williams
Source: The Verge Amazon wants Prime Video to be the place you watch coverage of election night. The company announced today that it will be streaming a live election night special on Prime Video hosted by former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. The show will kick off on November 5th at 5PM ET. “Brian Williams…
Perplexity lets you search your internal enterprise files and the web
Source: Venture Beat Perplexity announced Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces, which lets paying users query their own files as well as the internet. Read Full Article