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Adobe, Nimble Collective to Integrate Adobe Creative Cloud on the Nimble Virtual Studio Platform (SCN)

Nimble Collective is collaborating with Adobe to integrate Adobe Creative Cloud on Nimble's Virtual Studio Platform, delivering on its promise to democratize the animation technolo... 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

Microsoft, LiveTiles launch AI Partner Program (ARN)

LiveTiles and Microsoft have a launched a new program to help Australian partners lift their artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and deployment opportunities in the market. C... More

CBS Sees ‘Unbelievable’ Upside as Sports Betting Starts to Grow (AdAge)

When the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on sports betting earlier this year, many people wondered whether widespread access to gambling would help or hurt the TV networks ... More

The Evolution and Future of AI (Adobe Blog)

One of the other things that companies should do is build teams that repeatedly identify the highest value AI projects and then execute against them. Although this sounds really ea... More

Gamefly Shutting Down Video Game Streaming Service This Month (Variety)

Gamefly plans to shut down its video game streaming service at the end of August, according to the company’s support line and messages being sent to the service’s users, Variet... More

Vubiquity Wins Verizon Managed Services Deal for All On-Demand Content (MESA)

Vubiquity today announced its managed services and technology platforms will provide the processing and packaging of Verizon’s vast video on-demand (VOD) and Pay Per View (PPV) p... More

NBCU Producing Weekly Premier League Snapchat Show (B&C)

NBCU Sports and Snapchat have made a deal for a new weekly show about the British Premier League. Produced by NBCUniversal’s Digital Lab, Premier League: Extra Time will debut ex... More

Marketers Plugging Into Massive Momentum for eSports (CMO)

For the uninitiated, e-sports might seem like a passive pastime—perhaps a group of “Call Of Duty” fans gathered around a computer to watch others compete in the popular title... More

Google Cloud Signs New Partnerships to Support Blockchain, AI (Gigabit)

Google Cloud has opened its 'Next '18' Partner Summit by announcing new deals to support blockchain and artificial intelligence initiatives. The provider will host blockchain servi... More

How the IoT Boom Provides New Opportunities for Developers (Wipro Blog)

The Internet of Things has been joining the digital and physical worlds for years. Today, everything we think of as “smart” technology can be attributed to IoT. If you’re dev... More

Google Announces Cloud Build, its New Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Platform (TechCrunch)

It used to be that developers built applications with long lead times and development cycles. There was always plenty of time to prepare, but in today’s continuous delivery/conti... More

Microsoft’s Next-Generation Xbox Will Focus on ‘XCloud’ Game Streaming (The Verge)

Microsoft is currently developing its next-generation Xbox, with recent reports suggesting the console will launch in 2020. While the hardware will undoubtedly surpass the capabili... More

Artificial Intelligence Will Be Hollywood’s Next Big Star (Deadline)

Arvin Patel, TiVo: While there’s no denying the promise of AI as the next big thing, how we consume content is one area where we may see its impact sooner rather than later. As c... More

IBM Stakes an Early Claim on ‘Blockchain-as-a-Service’ (TheStreet)

In IBM's eyes, blockchain is one emerging technology that's poised to explode. The computing giant staked an early claim in the burgeoning technology, rolling out its IBM Blockchai... More

Blockchain’s Inflated Expectations Get Real (MediaPost)

Gartner correctly tags Blockchain as just going over the peak of “inflated expectations” in its Hype Cycle report. The analyst firm just announced in a recent study that fewer ... More

Disney’s First VR Short ‘Cycles’ Debuts Next Month (Engadget)

Walt Disney Animation Studios is set to share its first VR short, a film called Cycles that took four months to create. The short will make its debut at the Association for Computi... More

OTOY’s RNDR Brings Sophisticated Graphics Rendering to Masses Via Blockchain (VentureBeat)

We all love the special effects in our favorite films, games, and animated TV shows. But it’s still a pretty complex process to create these fanciful scenes that are better than ... More

How Blockchain Will Underpin the New Trust Economy (Tech World)

Over the next two years, enterprises are expected to ramp up their efforts to test blockchain technology as part of a new method of establishing trust in a digital economy. New res... More

‘Fortnite’s’ Rocket Launch Was a Success Thanks, in Part, to Amazon Web Services (Variety)

Online game events can be disastrous. Just ask “Pokémon Go” developer Niantic, whose inaugural Pokémon Go Fest was plagued by connectivity issues. Better yet, ask any MMO pla... More

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