Taking a scan of an injured brain often produces a map of irretrievable losses, revealing spots where damage causes memory difficulties or tremors. But in rare cases, those scans can expose just the opposite: plots of brain regions where an injury miraculously relieves someone’s symptoms, offering clues about how doctors might accomplish the same. A … Read more
We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 – 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Thousands of artificial intelligence experts and machine learning researchers probably thought they were going to have a restful weekend. Then came Google engineer Blake … Read more
Unlike a piano or organ, early synthesizers, like the Moog and ARP, could generate only one note at a time. Shaping a particular tone involved setting multiple knobs, switches or dials, and trying to reproduce that tone afterward meant writing down all the settings and hoping to get similar results the next time. The Prophet-5, … Read more
Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. The next game from Her Story’s Sam Barlow has a release date, and it’s very soon. Immortality is out in a little more than a month. The new … Read more
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year into her job as chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan hasn’t quite made the splash that many expected. She was appointed by President Biden to shake up an agency that has long quivered at the power of the tech giants, but her record has lacked a signature action … Read more
Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Tencent‘s Lightspeed Studios has unveiled its vision for the next decade, the Lightspeed universe. It’s all about enabling the next phase of growth and development for the game … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — Google placed an engineer on paid leave recently after dismissing his claim that its artificial intelligence is sentient, surfacing yet another fracas about the company’s most advanced technology. Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer in Google’s Responsible A.I. organization, said in an interview that he was put on leave Monday. The company’s … Read more
Intel shared the details of 13 papers with innovations in chip manufacturing for the upcoming VLSI Symposium chip design conference. The work was done by Intel Technology Development, Intel Labs and Intel Design Engineering teams. Intel exec Ben Sell talked about four of the disclosures with the press this week, and Intel is unveiling more … Read more
Why, then, do companies keep adding functions that are handy for a tiny number of people and ignored by the rest? And is there a better way to design products? Cliff Kuang, a designer in the tech industry and an author of a book about the history of product design, singled out three culprits behind … Read more
Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. The Summer Gaming Brouhaha is officially upon us. After last week’s State of Play, we now transition this week to the Summer Game Fest and its accompanying conga … Read more