Amazon spent more than a year looking for a home for its second headquarters -- only to instead open two large satellite offices.
Amazon plans to split its second headquarters -- HQ2 -- evenly between two cities, people familiar with the matter said Monday.
Amazon has announced plans to open a second headquarters in North America and today launched a request for proposal (RFP) from local and state governments as it looks to pin down a site for the project. The new facility, announced as “Amazon HQ2,” will receive more than $5 billion for construction and is expected to …
The IBM Watson Immersive AI Lab in Austin, Texas employs Oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment to turn "terabytes into insights."
The IBM Watson Immersive AI Lab in Austin, Texas employs Oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment to turn "terabytes into insights."
The IBM Watson Immersive AI Lab in Austin, Texas employs Oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment to turn "terabytes into insights."
John Underkoffler was the science advisor for the landmark 2004 film Minority Report, and he designed the gesture-controlled user interface that Tom Cruise used in the film to solve crimes in the sci-fi story. In 2006, Underkoffler started Oblong Industries to build the next generation of computing interfaces, and in 2012, the company began selling …
John Underkoffler is the CEO of Oblong Industries, and he is perhaps best known as the science advisor for the landmark sci-fi film Minority Report. Long before the body suit of Ready Player One, Underkoffler helped envision Minority Report’s scene where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gesture controls to manipulate a transparent computer. He talked …
Dean Takahashi is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he has covered games for 21 years. He has been at VentureBeat since 2008. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a complete list of VentureBeat articles written by Dean Takahashi, in reverse chronological order.
Guest Voice had a big year in 2017. Amazon Alexa passed 10 million unit sales, and there are over 24,000 skills in the store. Google is right up there with Amazon in terms of innovation. The addition of the Google Mini, to go along with the original Google Home, made waves in the consumer tech space …