
Echo Arena open beta launches May 5 on Oculus Quest

Magic Leap warns users to update headsets over battery issue

India orders coronavirus tracing app for all public and private sector employees

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Emotion detection is a hot ask in marketing, but the tech just isn’t ready yet

Roblox believes user-generated content will bring us the Metaverse

UC Berkeley researchers open-source RAD to improve any reinforcement learning algorithm

Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio: Self-supervised learning is the key to human-level intelligence

Valve ends support for SteamVR on Mac

Tesla tumbles after Musk tweets that stock is too high

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Here’s why an affordable 5G iPhone is the only right move for Apple

LinkedIn’s AI generates candidate screening questions from job postings

U.S. Congress calls on Jeff Bezos to testify over Amazon’s ‘misleading’ seller data statements

AI Weekly: Animal Crossing, ICLR, and the future of research conferences online

Opinion
ProBeat: Why surveillance drones may become a staple of daily life

How mobility data could help governments track lockdown compliance

Activision Blizzard donates $2 million to Call of Duty Endowment for veterans jobs

The DeanBeat: Learnings from our first online-only event

Geoff Keighley launches Summer Game Fest to capture gaming’s biggest unveils

Google releases AI tool for processing Paycheck Protection Program loans

Niko Partners: How the pandemic affected games in China

Canalys: Cloud spending hit record $31 billion in Q1 2020, but growth continues to slow

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Knowing when to scale your SaaS business in a pandemic — and beyond (VB Live)

Google and Facebook: Digital ad market is avoiding coronavirus disaster

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Typical Entertainment’s Thunder Rally is pure multiplayer mayhem

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The fallacy of ‘normal’: How the coronavirus will reboot venture capital

Google open-sources AI that searches tables to answer natural language questions

Apple: Coronavirus hurt Q2 2020 earnings, but teams rose to challenges

GDC goes all-digital for its rescheduled August event

Apple’s Q2 2020 revenue hits $58.3 billion despite retail shutdown

VB Live
Why financial services need to make customer advocacy a priority (VB Live)

Amazon reports $75.5 billion in Q1 2020 revenue: AWS up 33%, subscriptions up 28%, and ‘other’ up 44%

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Adjust CTO Paul Müller: Hypercasuals have permanently changed the app marketing playbook
SearchUnify Announces Colubridae ’20 to Elevate Search Experience

OpenAI’s Jukebox AI produces music in any style from scratch — complete with lyrics

Guest
Gaming sees explosive growth in social video as people stay home

Microsoft rebrands Visual Studio Online as Visual Studio Codespaces, cuts pricing by over 60%

PwC’s workplace contact tracing app won’t share info with public health officials

Vida Health raises $25 million to treat chronic health conditions remotely

Researchers develop smart contact lenses to monitor and treat diabetes
