December 27, 2017
HQ Trivia arrives on Android in Canada in beta
App-based trivia sensation HQ Trivia is on its way to Android, as the company previously revealed, but a special group of users can access it right now —…
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December 26, 2017
HQ Trivia is coming soon to Android
HQ Trivia is letting Android users pre-register for the live-streamed trivia game built by the makers of Vine, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll. Pre-registering means you’ll get notified…
Read articleDecember 24, 2017
Quiet
he trip began just before the end of school. From the wood-shaving smell of third grade out into the clean fall air, sprung free by my mother who…
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The AI chip startup explosion is already here
All eyes may have been on Nvidia this year as its stock exploded higher thanks to an enormous amount of demand across all fronts: gaming, an increased interest…
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Scaleworks announces pre-holiday surprise with Keen IO acquisition
Scaleworks, a private equity firm based in San Antonio, Texas, apparently couldn’t wait until after the holidays to share the news of its latest purchase. The firm announced…
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Meet Molekule, the sleekest air purifier on the market
Molekule, a San Francisco-based startup with a sleekly designed molecular air purifier started as an immigrant dream twenty years ago and ended up being named one of Time’s…
Read articleDecember 22, 2017
Ubisoft combines AI research and game development at ‘La Forge’
For years we’ve been raging at cheating AI players, bemoaning their bad pathfinding, and laughing at their buggy antics. But AI can be and is being applied creatively,…
Read articleDecember 22, 2017
Pixel art coloring book apps are the newest App Store craze
Has your kid bugged you to let them download Sandbox Coloring? You’re probably not alone. The latest trend blowing up on the App Store is a new twist…
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Inside Fin, the elite human/AI assistant
“I have FOMO for the future”, says Sam Lessin. That’s why his startup Fin is working backwards from a far-off tech utopia. One day, computers with some human…
Read articleDecember 22, 2017
CNN is killing its Snapchat news show only four months after its debut
CNN is giving up on its Snapchat news show, which launch only four months ago. “The Update,” as the program was called, had been designed for Snapchat’s vertical…
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