YouTube this morning introduced a new app for creators, YouTube Create, that will offer a suite of easy-to-use and free tools that will allow them to make both Shorts and longer videos. The tool aims to address some of the challenges creators face, including the […]
Day: September 21, 2023
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth hands-on: Broader horizons and deeper combat
How many times am I going to buy this game? I’m still waiting on the answer to that, but I recently played two demos for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the (poorly named) second chapter of what’s set to be a three-part remake of the 1997 […]
Navigating public-private partnerships with Uber, Cruise, and the Mayor of Atlanta
Tech companies say they will help cities reach their ambitious decarbonization goals, but increasing public trust and working closely with government partners is key, panelists said during a roundtable on sustainability in cities at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. These issues were thrown into sharp relief for […]
Libra’s co-creator had geopolitical motivations to build the digital currency
Concerns while building Libra weren’t limited to China, though.
Here are the 6 finalists of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2023
During the last two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2023. These 20 companies were selected as the best of the Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for a chance to take home the Startup Battlefield Cup and […]
Auctoria uses generative AI to create video game models
Several years ago, Aleksander Caban, the co-founder of Carbon Studio, a Polish VR game developer, observed a major problem in modern game design. He had to create rocks, hills, paths and other basic elements of video game environments manually, which often turned out to be […]
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth hands-on: Broader horizons and deeper combat
How many times am I going to buy this game? I’m still waiting on the answer to that, but I recently played two demos for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the (poorly named) second chapter of what’s set to be a three-part remake of the 1997 […]
Founder Glen Schofield leaves Striking Distance Studios
Glen Schofield has decided to leave Striking Distance Studios, the game studio that he founded.
Amazon Devices Event 2023: Everything you need to know about Alexa, Echo, Fire TV and more
Amazon kicked off its annual Fall Devices Event today, revealing its generative AI plans, a slew of Alexa and Echo announcements, Fire TV streaming news, along with updates to Amazon’s smart home gear like its Blink and Ring cameras and a new, yet very expensive, […]
OpenAI unveils DALL-E 3, allows artists to opt out of training
OpenAI today unveiled an upgraded version of its text-to-image tool, DALL-E, that uses ChatGPT — OpenAI’s viral AI chatbot — to take some of the pain out of prompting. Most cutting-edge, AI-powered image generation tools today take prompts — descriptions of images — and turn […]