Guidelines to keep your company healthy and strong while transitioning back to the office and navigating the inevitable changes in your team culture. https://bit.ly/3gyLBr0
The new trailer for the massive “Sorcery Update” for Blade & Sorcery reveals that it will hit both Steam and Oculus Home for Rift platforms on June 4. https://bit.ly/2McUdFZ
SpaceX launched two Americans into orbit from Florida in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. https://bit.ly/2TWFvHc
The technological building blocks for online elections are already available. Here’s what else we need in order to move to digital voting. https://bit.ly/2XJGOub
Pico Interactive is making its Neo 2 line of standalone headsets available worldwide. The base model is $700, while the Tobii eye-tracking variant is $900. https://bit.ly/3gyAvSW
Amazon has discontinued the Alexa-powered Echo Look as it migrates the connected camera's key features to other apps and devices. https://bit.ly/2XdP6eL
Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz confirmed he has raised a new round of funding, and he also said that he will step down as the CEO. https://bit.ly/3cddnG7
HP unveiled the HP Reverb G2 VR headset with high-resolution specs that the company hopes will make it appealing to enterprise users and consumers. https://bit.ly/2ZNOyOG
Vesta, which provides an AI-powered platform for payment fraud detection and prevention, has raised $125 million in venture capital. https://bit.ly/36AUjAq
Match-3 games like Candy Crush Saga are the most prominent subgenre in the U.S. iPhone game market, accounting for 21% of the market's revenue. https://bit.ly/2TLt0yp
Animal Crossing: New Horizons surpassed all other games as the leader in social engagement during March as shelter-in-place rules began. https://bit.ly/2ZJiKu0
As the pandemic rages on, mobile gaming and apps are a kind of salve. So much so, 2020 will be a blockbuster year for smartphone content. https://bit.ly/2ZGa0ox
The coronavirus pandemic has paused the electric vehicle revolution, forcing producers of lithium into survival mode with output cuts. https://bit.ly/2XwGr6h
Facebook researchers propose AI that can insert people into existing images, and even change the hair and clothing styles of those inserted people. https://bit.ly/3ejInWs
In a global announcement streamed on YouTube today, XRspace finally revealed how it is bringing social VR to the public during a time of social separation. https://bit.ly/2LZl9c7
Alice&Bob has raised $3.3 million to accelerate research on technology to make this next-generation computing method more stable. https://bit.ly/2ZAwAij
Launching small, independent innovation teams that are free to fail can lead to fast development of disruptive products and keep your company competitive. https://bit.ly/2TFM8Od
Quest Quest's new hands-free hand-tracking is here. How does it work? We try it out with Walt of the Wizard, a VR game with hand-tracking. https://bit.ly/2A1AcPL
It’s time for the VC industry to remember its task is to build the future, not to focus on safe “PE like” investments and top-up rounds. https://bit.ly/2LY7cex
It might be challenging to find bright spots in financial news these days, but seismic economic shifts always give way to new markets and opportunities. https://bit.ly/2TB4zDE
When I saw the New York Times article suggesting Twitter is breaking new ground by letting its employees work remotely, I wanted to set the record straight. https://bit.ly/3eh9IbE
Major social media companies have replaced many of their human content moderators with AI during the pandemic. And the results aren't encouraging. https://bit.ly/2A10VvO
Facebook announced that its $1,000 enterprise-edition Oculus Quest, part of its Oculus for Business platform, is now available for all companies. https://bit.ly/3egz6P8
Pac-Man turns 40 years old today, and MyArcade is celebrating with an attractive (and functionable) collectible that you can display and play. https://bit.ly/3bTzGAr
Activision is launching the Call of Duty Endowment Fearless Pack and an exclusive Warzone T-Shirt in honor of National Military Appreciation Month. https://bit.ly/3ggnyNm
Nvidia posted revenues of $3.08 billion for the first quarter ended April 26, up 39% from a year earlier as datacenter revenues soared. https://bit.ly/2Tqj251
Take-Two Interactive had a record fourth-quarter for net bookings thanks to a huge increase in microtransaction spending as players shelter-in-place. https://bit.ly/3cLeG06
In a series of blog posts, Facebook detailed the various AI and machine learning systems behind its ecommerce systems, including Marketplace. https://bit.ly/2AN1xpr
During Build 2020, Microsoft debuted a number of privacy- and fairness-focused enhancements to Azure Machine Learning, including the WhiteNoise toolkit. https://bit.ly/3cM2hcn
Apple responded to the Attorney General and FBI Director's accurations of failure to cooperate in a terror investigation, calling them out for false claims. https://bit.ly/3bIrfba
IronSource is adding creative insights to its user acquisition platform so that advertisers can examine how each creative asset performs. https://bit.ly/3bGf52I
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, IBM claims to have achieved state-of-the-art AI model accuracy using phase-change memory. https://bit.ly/2WGhHJo
Remote working has surprised me in positive ways, but I'm still dubious that an all- or largely-remote workforce is as simple as some would like to think. https://bit.ly/2WJNfyp
Humans and AI work better together than alone in tasks like finding galaxies or breast cancer metastisis, according to work from Microsoft Research. https://bit.ly/3bG7voG
China's foreign ministry said on Saturday the United States needed to stop the "unreasonable suppression" of Chinese companies like Huawei. https://bit.ly/2TdqX5A
Shoppable ads aren’t brand new, but in our new COVID-19 reality, they're newly urgent. Getting them right is a critical competency for advertisers. https://bit.ly/2yWbGzw
Hugging Face launched about 1,000 AI models for translation, the first venture into translation for the startup that seeks out and shares cutting-edge NLP. https://bit.ly/3dPaCft
Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its Instagram photo-sharing app, https://bit.ly/2z2PK5I
I love Japanese role-playing games like the Final Fantasy and Persona series, but I just never got into Dragon Quest. That has finally changed. https://bit.ly/2LzLDk5
Turtle Beach is seeing increased demand for its gaming peripherals like headsets for gamers as isolated players upgrade their gear. https://bit.ly/2LJCzcN
Electric carmaker Tesla plans to introduce a new low-cost, long-life battery in its Model 3 sedan in China later this year or early next. https://bit.ly/3fU8a9t
Ghost of Tsushima is one of Sony's last big exclusive games on the PlayStation 4, and developer Sucker Punch showed off more gameplay. https://bit.ly/3cAAFGS