GitHub released its annual Octoverse report today to reveal trends found in one of the largest developer communities on the planet such as a spike in open source project activity following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. GitHub is now used by 56 million developers worldwide, up from 44 million in 2019 and 31 million […]
Continue ReadingDigital games earned $3.9 billion worldwide between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, said market researcher SuperData. That represented a 10% decline from a year ago and it suggests even games aren’t immune from changing consumer habits during the pandemic. Changes in consumer buying patterns led to a drop in Black Friday and Cyber Monday digital […]
Continue ReadingIn October, holographic display maker Looking Glass Factory welcomed Sony to the 3D monitor business with a blog post inspired by a classic Apple ad, positioning itself as an innovative David to Sony’s Goliath. But given the enterprise focus of both Looking Glass’ $3,000 monitors and Sony’s $5,000 Spatial Reality Display, it wasn’t clear that either company […]
Continue ReadingDauntless developer Phoenix Labs keeps growing, as it announced today the establishment of new studios in Montreal, Quebec and Los Angeles, California. Phoenix Labs added 50 employees during 2020, and it expects to have over 250 workers by the end of 250. This staff will help support the new studios and work on new games. […]
Continue ReadingBizzabo, a platform that helps businesses run hybrid online and offline events, has raised $ 138 million in a Series E funding round led by New York-based VC firm Insight Partners. The increase will come when the COVID-19 crisis leaves a likely indelible mark Trillion Dollar Events and Conference Many companies are preparing to keep […]
Continue Reading(Reuters) – The Facebook-backed cryptocurrency scale has been renamed "Diem" to gain regulatory approval by emphasizing the independence of the project. Plans for Libra, Flown from Facebook for the first time last yearwere slimmed down in April after regulators and central banks raised concerns that they could improve financial stability, undermine control over monetary policy […]
Continue ReadingApple has named the App Store’s best games and apps of 2020, and Genshin Impact is the winner of the iPhone Game of the Year award. The game had a $100 million budget and it enabled Chinese game studio MiHoYo to become recognized on a global stage — and reap an estimated $250 million in […]
Continue ReadingGenshin sure has an impact on the bottom line of MiHoYo. Mobile analytics company Sensor Tower said today that Genshin Impact raised an estimated $ 393 million in the first two months after launching September 28. However, the company also found that its second month spending didn't keep up with the first month ($ 245 […]
Continue ReadingI wrote about how a few months ago I'm more excited about the RTX 3080 than about the Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5. But after the introduction of the first RTX 3000 cards, the new consoles and the high-end Radeons from AMD, it's the cheaper GPUs that I have my eye on now. And […]
Continue ReadingNvidia AI researchers introduced AI to generate speaking heads for video conferencing from a single 2D image that can be used to achieve a wide range of manipulations, from rotating and moving a person's head to motion transmission and video reconstruction. The AI takes the first image in a video as a 2D photo and […]
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