Did you miss today’s livestream? Watch the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit on demand now. In my previous blog post, I ranted a little about database technologies and threw a few thoughts out there on what I think a better data system would be able to do. In this post, I am going […]
4 Things That Make Fracked A Different Kind Of VR Shooter
Fracked is built on top of a lot of VR shooters that have come before it. But, at the same time, it’s also quite unlike anything else we’ve seen. nDreams’ latest is a fleet-footed spectacle that has its own ideas about how to deliver super-fast action in VR. Here’s four things it’s doing differently to […]
A Township Tale – We're Not Ready To Review It Yet
A Township Tale already has something few other VR games can claim to enjoy – a fan-run wiki. No, really, I meant to type wiki. See, the mere fact that Alta’s part survival, part town-building universe needs an online encyclopedia tells you a lot of things. First, it suggests the game has genuine depth, and […]
How Verizon delivers a ‘phygital’ customer experience with data, AI
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Watch now! Verizon exists at the intersection of online and offline — approximately 100 million customers rely on the telecommunications giant for their mobile, TV, and internet capabilities. Ronan Dunne, CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, said in a talk at VentureBeat’s […]
AI has become a design problem
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. AI is facing new calls for regulation now that it has emerged from the laboratory and is becoming more widely deployed across our daily lives. The public does not trust the technology. Nor should they. The […]
The data lakehouse: A database wishlist and a rant
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. I wrote The Security Data Lake in 2015. At the time, the big data space was not as mature as today — and the intersection of big data and security wasn’t a well understood area. Fast […]
Put a first-party data strategy to work for your customer experience
Presented by Tealium Businesses have long relied on data collected through third-party cookies to fuel their targeted top-of-funnel marketing campaigns. In the era of big data, third-party cookies offered a compelling, data-driven way for marketers to target and measure otherwise anonymous users. But privacy concerns brought about significant browser changes that eliminate support for third-party […]
BASALT Minecraft competition aims to advance reinforcement learning
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. Deep reinforcement learning, a subfield of machine learning that combines reinforcement learning and deep learning, takes what’s known as a reward function and learns to maximize the expected total reward. This works remarkably well, enabling systems […]
A guide to: Celebrities in esports – football, basketball and sports – Esports Insider
Celebrities in esports hail from a wide variety of backgrounds from musicians to actors, but none so prevalent as those from the world of traditional sports —especially footballers. Famous athletes and sports team owners that have or continue to invest in or become involved in esports recognise the link between fandoms and competition, whether live […]
Treat Yo Self To A Giant Mountain Dew Body Pillow, Because You're Worth It
Why seek human comfort when you could have a gigantic Mountain Dew body pillow instead? That’s right; Mountain Dew is taking its marketing to a new, comfortable level with a humongous body pillow modeled after the sugary, high-fueled soft drink. Do you need one? No. Should you get one anyway? Absolutely. And you can do just […]