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It’s not an overstatement to say that Facebook has had a . Rocked by , battered in the markets, and beset by PR controversy on all sides, the social giant’s image has taken a hit. Observers from all ends of the media industry are wondering what is for one of the most successful companies in […]

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It’s no secret that and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of the most important subcategories of technology at the moment. As the driving force behind everything from self-driving cars to targeted marketing campaigns and surgical robots, these two interconnected fields are playing an unparalleled role in the development of today’s most exciting technologies. That means […]

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, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, had more than 4,500 exhibitors. But a sex toy startup from Oregon called was not one of them. Lora DiCarlo made a sex toy, , that uses micro-robotics to create a “biomimicry” effect which it argued is better than a vibrator. The female-run company, formally […]

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We in the West love our apocalyptic science fiction, in which cartoonishly evil authorities ruthlessly oppress all who so much as wonder about its absolute power, enforced via ubiquitous surveillance technology. Think The Hunger Games, Blade Runner 2049, V for Vendetta, just to pick a few. Well — to trot out that infamous William Gibson […]

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PlayStation continued its trend of spending big through the month of December, accounting for almost half of all gaming industry advertising on TV. Xbox and Nintendo were a distant second and third, respectively, as consumers headed to the stores for holiday giving. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention […]

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Beat Saber is a massive runaway success in the VR community, due in large part to the customization afforded in  (). Not only can you  that users have mapped to create an infinite library of music (we’ve done song  where viewers can pick a song for us to play live) but you can also download and install custom […]

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Cashierless stores are all the rage. You need look no further for evidence than Amazon’s rapidly expanding chain and the tens of millions of VC dollars startups like and have snatched up in the past year. Some, like , offer plug-and-play systems designed to accommodate warehouse-style installations — i.e., stores up to 100,000 square feet. […]

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There’s perhaps no retail task more time-consuming than taking stock of merchandise. Inventory tracking — that is, figuring out which products are in stock, which stock is likely to run low in the next week, and so on — is a never-ending battle, as shoppers spend an estimated 40 billion hours picking things off store […]

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is ringing in the new year by celebrating its successes in the old one. In a , developer Against Gravity revealed its app had been installed on over 1 million VR headsets by the end of 2018. Rec Room is a social VR platform available on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows VR and PlayStation VR. It’s […]

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Romero Rodrigues Contributor More posts by this contributor Brazil’s fintech boom offers new vertical opportunities for investors Brazil’s tech-sector bright spots beckon as it begins to emerge from long economic crisis In late October following a significant victory for Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential elections, the stock market for Latin America’s largest country shot up. Financial […]

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