Games/Interactive

 

Globecast Boosts Live Content Monetization with Digital Media Hub (Rapid TV News)

Targeted at facilitating cross-platform live content publishing for sport and live events, Globecast believes that by aggregating multiple virtualised and cloud-based technologies ... More

How IBM Watson Took Center Court at The U.S. Open (GeoMarketing)

"To ensure fans are keeping pace throughout the tournament, IBM’s AI technology will help fans follow matches and navigate their time on the US Open grounds. While we're seeing t... More

PWC Survey: 84% of Companies Actively Engaged in Blockchain (Blokt)

The hype around blockchain has finally started to yield results. A new survey from PwC claims that a vast majority of companies are actively engaged in experimenting with blockchai... More

Dolby Vision HDR is Ready for Testing on Xbox One (Engadget)

Microsoft promised Dolby Vision HDR support for the Xbox One and starting today, testers with an Xbox One S or Xbox One X (and a compatible 4K TV) can try it out with Netflix strea... More

Adobe Announces Open Platform for Experience Design with Adobe XD CC (MESA)

Adobe announced that Adobe XD is opening its platform to enable users to customize their tools with an ecosystem of community and partner-built plugins. Leveraging Adobe XD APIs, d... More

PwC Launches 2-Year Digital Skills Course to Train 1,000 Employees on Everything From Drones to Blockchain (Digiday)

PwC is launching a two-year training program to boost the digital skills of its own employees. Beginning in January, PwC’s intermediate to advanced skill-building program, called... More

The eSports Industry is Growing – Now Web Infrastructure Needs to Keep Up (ReadWrite)

Like traditional sports, e-sports can be costly. A prime component of e-sports infrastructure is video streaming, which enables competition. Viewers are able to share the videos an... More

CBS Sports Launches a Google Home Action for Fantasy Football Players (Digiday)

Instead of asking your friends or your cousins who to add to your fantasy football team, CBS Sports would like you to ask your Google Assistant. The broadcaster has launched a Goog... More

IBM Gives Tennis Players a Competitive Edge with Watson at the 2018 U.S. Open (SCN)

IBM today announced that IBM Watson will now partner with tennis players and coaches to enhance their game strategy and better prepare for matches more efficiently. As a partner of... More

Report: $19.5B Spent on Video Games in U.S. During First Half of 2018 (GamesIndustry.biz)

The NPD Group has reported US consumers spend $19.5 billion on video game products in the first six months of the year. This marks an increase of 40 per cent when compared to spend... More

PwC: Regulatory Uncertainty is Largest Impediment to Blockchain Adoption (Forbes)

Regulation is proving to be the most formidable barrier to the development and deployment of blockchain solutions in business contexts, a new PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of 600 g... More

MLS and Twitter Introduce Live Match Camera Operated by Tweets (The Drum)

Major League Soccer (MLS) is going to new lengths to build the appeal of its product, both on an off the field. Most recently, it has allowed fans on Twitter the opportunity to con... More

New York is the Capital of a Booming Artificial Intelligence Industry (Bloomberg)

From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, there’s increasing demand for highly skilled workers in artificial intelligence and machine learning. But a limited pool of talent has allowed... More

IBM Researchers Propose ‘Factsheets’ for AI Transparency (VentureBeat)

There’s no consistent, agreed-upon way AI services should be “created, tested, trained, deployed, and evaluated,” Aleksandra Mojsilovic, head of AI foundations at IBM Researc... More

Twitch Prime Ditches Ad-Free Viewing As It Woos YouTube Creators (FastCompany)

Watching people play Fortnite on Twitch will soon involve exposure to advertising even if you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber. Amazon is removing universal ad-free viewing as a Pri... More

CBS All Access Goes Live on Amazon Prime Video Channels (Deadline)

After seeing subscription gains for Showtime when the network’s stand-alone app entered the Amazon’s Prime Video Channels arena, CBS has reached a similar deal with the tech gi... More

Three Things AI Could Do for Your Content Production (Videomind)

IDC forecasts global Artificial Intelligence (AI) spending will likely cross US$46 billion in 2020. Like in many areas, AI is disrupting the media industry, as large amounts of dat... More

Microsoft’s Walmart Partnership Isn’t About Retail — It’s About Streaming (VentureBeat)

It’s now less about the hardware and more about the back-end technology that will be able to support live-streaming across the country. Even with high-speed connections and respo... More

5 Emerging Technologies that 5G Will Positively Disrupt (Forbes)

Immersive Gaming. 5G has many implications when it comes to gaming, and especially when it comes to gaming with AR and VR. For example, 5G is likely to make VR less cost-prohibitiv... More

How Close are We to the End of the Gaming Console? (Washington Post)

The measuring stick for success among the big three gaming companies of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo has long been a question of how many consoles they have sold. But all three hav... More

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