Games/Interactive

In a first, IBM’s Watson Media will enhance the Grammy awards’ digital workflow and user experience with artificial intelligence. IBM Watson Media has partnered with The Record... More

The signs of esports’ spread in Las Vegas are everywhere you look: On a recent Friday night, glowing computer monitors supplant neon beer signs as the scant source of bar light a... More

For all the hype, blockchain has yet to go mainstream in the enterprise. That may well change in 2018 as the technology's reputation for trusted transactions continues to grow amon... More

Publishers still reeling from the Facebook news feed-pocalypse might find comfort in Snapchat. The disappearing messages app is stepping up efforts to curry favor with publishers. ... More

Just a few months after launching, Facebook’s Watch video platform has been surprisingly popular with the social-media service’s users — with 40% of U.S. Facebook users sayin... More

Tata Communications announced that it has been chosen by Ultracast to power the international expansion of the company’s 360° video and virtual reality (VR) platform. The compan... More

Global esports event company ESL has announced that Facebook will be the exclusive broadcast partner for its two main competitions. Both the CS:GO Pro League and the ESL One circui... More

Verizon and the NBA have entered into an expanded deal covering distribution of live games on NBA League Pass — as well as highlights packages and other original content — acro... More

Every day there’s another article about AI and its power of personalization. They’re not wrong. As customers hand over more and more data and the technology to decipher that da... More

Disney executive Kyle Laughlin announced today that the entertainment giant has hit reset on its game strategy and formed new relationships with four development partners. Disney w... More

It's January and that means it's time to make some big, bold, and quite possibly totally off the mark predictions for the coming year. What will 2018 have in store for gamers, t... More

Adam Winfield, SAP: Just 19% of millennials agreed with the statement “generally speaking, most people can be trusted” in a 2014 Pew Social Trends survey. For context, Boomers ... More

The Dallas Mavericks, the U.S. basketball team, will begin accepting cryptocurrency payments during their next season, according to owner and investor Mark Cuban. Cuban was asked a... More

In 2018, I expect we'll see a number of firsts, including AI systems which can explain themselves directly ('first person') instead of being externally assessed ('third person'); t... More

Companies are racing to be the first to get lightweight augmented reality glasses into consumers’ hands. Amazon, which pioneered the smart speaker, hasn’t said much publicly ab... More

Chuck Hollis, Oracle: Growing up during the 1960s and ‘70s, I was immersed in the popular science culture of that era. From the discovery of DNA to early computers to moon landi... More

Google typically keeps a low profile at CES. Not this year. As techies swarm Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, the world's biggest internet company is squarely... More

Toyota said Tuesday it will introduce Alexa, Amazon's cloud-based voice assistant, in some Toyota and Lexus vehicles in 2018. The feature will be available in all Toyota and Lexus ... More

Wazee Digital today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Amblin Partners to use Wazee Digital Core for archive management and Digital Media Hub for distributing glo... More

NBC will present more than 50 hours of virtual-reality coverage from the 2018 Winter Olympics next month in South Korea — available live to viewers in the U.S. It will mark th... More