Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Watch now. Bright Gambit is an indie support initiative founded by a collective of games industry veterans. Its goal is to create more opportunities for growth, where there’s the most need. And today it is announcing five games. The … Read more
Ahead of the 2020 elections, Connecticut confronted a bevy of falsehoods about voting that swirled around online. One, widely viewed on Facebook, wrongly said that absentee ballots had been sent to dead people. On Twitter, users spread a false post that a tractor-trailer carrying ballots had crashed on Interstate 95, sending thousands of voter slips … Read more
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Watch now. Village Studio has raised $2.3 million to create cross-game Playken avatars based on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Web3 platform was founded by games industry veterans Will Luton (SEGA, Rovio), Cyril Barrow (Rovio, EA) and Tak Fung (Microsoft, … Read more
The United States has regained a coveted speed crown in computing with a powerful new supercomputer in Tennessee, a milestone for the technology that plays a major role in science, medicine and other fields. Frontier, the name of the massive machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was declared on Monday to be the first to … Read more
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Watch now. If you think of the metaverse as a mostly ephemeral concept, then you might not imagine what role physical movement and expression will play in its development. But as the panelists at the GamesBeat Summit session “Building … Read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission revealed on Friday that it had begun looking into Elon Musk’s purchases of Twitter stock in early April and whether he properly disclosed his stake and his intentions for the social media company. In a regulatory filing, the agency said it had approached Mr. Musk on April 4. At the … Read more
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Watch now. Sad Cat Studios announced that it’s delaying its upcoming title, Replaced. According to the studio, several members of the team live in regions around the Belarus-based Sad Cat, and they have been negatively affected by the war … Read more
From Santa Barbara, Calif., to Hefei, China, scientists are developing a new kind of computer that will make today’s machines look like toys. Harnessing the mysterious powers of quantum mechanics, the technology will perform tasks in minutes that even supercomputers could not complete in thousands of years. In the fall of 2019, Google unveiled an … Read more
The massive, beautiful tree canopies in the Western U.S., which may grow perilously close to power lines, can quickly spark destructive wildfires. In fact, 70% of electrical outages are caused by vegetation, and this number has increased by 19% year over year from 2009-2020. The second-largest wildfire in California’s history, The Dixie Fire, sparked when … Read more
The company relies on automated systems to spot violent content, but people are still uploading and sharing the Buffalo video.