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Hidden away on the exhibition floor at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, I found a short line next to the big booth for Amazon Lumberyard, that cross-platform 3D game engine that public cloud infrastructure provide Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled last month. The line was for a virtual reality (VR) demo of […]... →

Minecraft in all its blocky glory is setting up shop on mobile virtual reality on the Gear VR. I had a chance to demo the game at an Oculus media event during GDC in SF this week and there was a decent amount of hype surrounding the wildly popular game making its mobile VR debut. Microsoft is already set to launch a version of the game for the Rift sometime this spring. The mobile VR… Read More... →

I’m too disorganized for real-time strategy. I’ve had my fill of fast-paced flight games. I’d don’t want to play another minigame collection ever again. But I’ve found that I love all of these games in virtual reality, and it’s not just about novelty. On Monday, Oculus VR held an event as part of the Game Developers […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Sony engineer Chris Norden expressed frustration that the media does not understand the extra processing box that comes packed with the upcoming PlayStation VR headset. So he took the time during a presentation today to finally explain it to us. The PlayStation VR’s processing unit (PU) is not an extra GPU or CPU, […]... →

GUEST: March 15, 2016 brought us a milestone in artificial intelligence 10 years earlier than experts expected: AlphaGo, the AI-based computer created by Google DeepMind, beat world champion Go player Lee Sedol at the game. Go is among the most ancient of games — simple in concept, yet spectacularly complex to master. The final score in […]... →

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The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today approved the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill. In an amendment to the bill filed by Senators Heller and Cantwell, the Senate committee instructs the FAA to create rules for delivery drones within the next two years. It’s worth noting that the bill is still working its way through the… Read More... →

Munchery, the on-demand meal delivery startup with over $117 million in funding, has lost Pascal Rigo, who came on board to Munchery as chief customer experience officer just five months ago. Rigo had formerly spent three years at Starbucks as SVP of food, after the coffee giant bought La Boulange, the bakery chain Rigo founded in 1996. Rigo resigned because he didn’t share… Read More... →

VB EVENT: Google and Amazon may be top dogs in their respective industries, but they both face challenges when it comes to mobile. Google is the largest ad company in the world, and it earned that status by dominating search. It sells ads to brands wanting to reach Google’s users. Lately, though, people are spending more time […]... →

Digital document signatures have really expedited sales. No longer do we have to print out the document, sign it, and either scan or fax it back to the original sender. But while this capability may be a godsend, there’s one problem a new startup called GetAccept wants to highlight: It still is not enough for actually closing the […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s counterintuitive to think that covering your eyes and ears with a screen and speakers can lead to awesome interactions with your friends, but Sony has demonstrated that it’s true. PlayStation VR engineers took the stage at the Game Developers Conference today to show off a multiplayer experiment built around social interactions. […]... →

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, aka the Woz, shared his feelings about the Apple Watch today in a Reddit Ask Me Anything session. His feelings were, well, not the most positive. Here’s how he put it: I worry a little bit about — I mean I love my Apple Watch, but — it’s taken us into […]... →

The maker movement is hot. Worldwide, there are about 2,000 maker spaces and 26% of cities in the U.S. have them. I sat down with Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan to learn about what’s driving the movement and where it’s headed. “I think it’s a bunch of things,” Kaplan said. “One, access to all these technologies is getting super cheap. It used to be you had to… Read More... →

17 и 18 марта 2016 впервые в самом сердце мира технологий – в Сан-Франциско – пройдет конференция Droidcon. Участников ожидает более 50 ведущих экспертов в области Android разработки, выставка высоких технологий и устройств, а также Startup Alley. Среди спикеров представители Google, Intel, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram и других компаний. Традиционно Droidcon является крупнейшей конференцией, посвященной всем аспектам операционной системы Android для мобильных устройств, телевидения, автомобилей, и... →

В мае 2016 года мобильные алгоритмы Google начнут придавать ещё большее значение такому сигналу, как степень адаптивности сайта к мобильным устройствам. Это означает, что влияние сигнала на позиции сайтов в мобильной выдаче заметно усилится, а его значимость для поисковой системы – повысится. «В прошлом году мы начали использовать адаптивность сайта к мобильным устройствам в качестве сигнала ранжирования в мобильной выдаче. Сегодня мы сообщаем, что в мае приступим к постепенному запуску обновления результа... →

A number of startup studios are in the midst of a years-long experiment, providing back-end assistance, office space, and mentoring to talented, ambitious people in order to create a startup with them, often based around their expertise. Betaworks was the first to try it, opening its doors roughly nine years ago. Others, including New York-based Expa; Science, based in L.A., and Roniin… Read More... →

Last week I sat down with apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak to hear about his newest creation, Silicon Valley Comic Con. The event, which will be held this weekend at the San Jose Convention Center, will play host to celebrities like Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, and Stan Lee. Woz and his team says they expect almost 30,000 attendees throughout the weekend. The convention will also feature… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: A Google Update Brewing...... →

I bought an Apple Watch six months ago. This was no casual purchase. As an Apple fan, a watch collector and with more than 20 years of experience in the design innovation space, I had extremely high expectations of the purchase. While I have enjoyed the stylish Apple Watch’s features and functions, I have occasionally felt frustrated with the overall experience, for two, admittedly… Read More... →

В Иране заблокировали международную версию российского поисковика «Яндекс» — yandex.com, свидетельствуют данные ресурса blockediniran.com. При этом региональные сайты компании, в том числе yandex.ru, доступны, пишет «Коммерсантъ» со ссылкой на пресс-атташе посольства России в Иране Максима Суслова.... →