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Why Dynamic UIs of the Future Will Satisfy Every User (Videonet)

Anthony Smith-Chaigneau, NAGRA: For many years, the UX design standard has been to use a graphical user interface (GUI). This is most notable on computers where users interact with... More

Why Apple Cares About Mobile Game Developers (GamesBeat)

If you build it, they will come. For years, it seemed didn’t really embrace the game developers who flocked to the iPhone and filled the App Store with games that consumers downl... More

NAB Show: ‘Stranger Things 2’ VFX Masters to Share Secrets (MESA)

NAB Show, the world’s largest annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage, and distribute entertainment across all platforms, will feature “The VFX Wizardry... More

NBA Seeks eSports Dominance with Creation of New League (The Drum)

The NBA has become the first professional sports organisation in America to fully embrace the burgeoning field of eSports with the launch of a dedicated league next month. Teams... More

Artificial Intelligence Could Be a Game Changer for the Cable Industry (Digital TV Europe)

Video: Jacques-Edouard Guillemot, SVP executive affairs at Kudelski Group, explains how AI can enable cable operators to drive their business more effectively and automate meaningf... More

IBM CEO Rometty Proposes ‘Watson’s Law’: AI In Everything (Forbes)

IBM is a big company, obviously. The negative side of that breadth for IBM is the perception (held by some) that it is a big (tough to manoeuvre) ship with so much tradition and hi... More

IBM, Apple Team Up to Eliminate AI Roadblocks with New Watson Services (Forbes)

Apple and IBM revealed an enhancement to their existing collaboration at the Think 2018 conference with Watson Services for Core ML and the newly designed IBM Cloud Developer Conso... More

How the Media Biz is Embracing Blockchain Technology (Variety)

Outside of the ICO-fueled blockchain startup mania, big media companies are also looking into the technology. In addition to investing in blockchain startups via its VC arm, Comcas... More

Testronic Opens First Asia Office (GamesIndustry.biz)

Testronic has secured a footing in the East with the opening of a new office in Asia. Thailand becomes the fourth nation in which the QA specialist has established operations, w... More

Disney’s Latest Research Project Can Turn Scripts Into Virtual Reality (Variety)

Disney Research has been working on a way to turn natural language scripts into virtual reality (VR) pre-visualizations. While currently focusing on VR story creation, the tool cou... More

Amazon Pulls Back the Curtain on SageMaker AI Service (VentureBeat)

Amazon peeled back the curtain on its SageMaker AI service today, unveiling how its customers are able to train machine learning models at massive scale while keeping costs down. T... More

This SAP-Built Mobile App is Taking the $1.7 Trillion Fashion Industry by Storm (Forbes)

What does innovation look like in the digital age? If you ask Alicia Tillman, CMO for enterprise software company SAP, her answer might surprise you. Not only was SAP an official t... More

Amazon Launches GameOn Service for Game Developers (CNBC)

Amazon on Monday is introducing a cloud service that will help developers add competitions and giveaways into video games. GameOn, as the service is called, is outside Amazon's ... More

Twitter is Emphasizing the On-Demand Side of Live for New Shows Ahead of NewFronts (Digiday)

Twitter wants to promote more on-demand viewing as it seeks new deals for live shows ahead of this year’s NewFronts presentations. The company is seeking more live shows with ... More

NAB Show: ZOO Digital to Release Enhanced Security for TV, Movie Content Using Facial Recognition (MESA)

ZOO Digital will be demonstrating a new security feature that incorporates machine learning and facial recognition at NAB 2018. The feature is an industry first and will address a ... More

Google Cloud Chief Scientist: ‘AI Doesn’t Belong to Just a Few Tech Giants in Silicon Valley’ (VentureBeat)

Silicon Valley may be behind much of the development of AI in the modern world, but it’s vital that everyone feel included in the technology, said Fei-Fei Li, Google Cloud chief ... More

Microsoft’s Xbox Unit Seeks to Lure Game Makers to Cloud (Bloomberg)

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox video-game business is creating a unit that will focus on getting partners to use the company’s Azure cloud-computing services to run their internet-base... More

Facebook Instant Games Platform Opens Up to All Developers (Variety)

Facebook is giving games another shot: The social network officially opened up its Instant Games platform to all developers Wednesday, allowing them to build and monetize games for... More

Live-Stream NCAA March Madness Games in VR for $2.99 Each (Variety)

College hoops fans will be able to immerse themselves in the action of up to 21 games from the NCAA March Madness tournament in virtual reality. The March Madness Live VR app wi... More

Wazee Digital, BASE Media Cloud Drive Cloud Media Access for Formula E (MESA)

Wazee Digital and technical partner BASE Media Cloud today announced their first joint customer: Formula E. Wazee Digital and BASE Media Cloud have combined their cloud-based servi... More

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