Auto Safety Agency Expands Tesla Investigation

The federal government’s top auto-safety agency is significantly expanding an investigation into Tesla and its Autopilot driver-assistance system to determine if the technology poses a safety risk. The agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said Thursday that it was upgrading its preliminary evaluation of Autopilot to an engineering analysis, a more intensive level of … Read more

SuperTeam Games raises $10M to make cross-platform blockchain sports games

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. SuperTeam Games has raised a seed round to create sports games enhanced with blockchain technology. Griffin Gaming Partners, one of the biggest venture funds specializing in games, led … Read more

F.D.A. Advisers Meet on Covid Shots by Novavax

Addressing the committee, Martha Dawson, the president of the National Black Nurses Association, said that some patients will feel more comfortable using protein-based vaccines, a technology that has been in use for decades. “I encourage the F.D.A. to give us another, more traditional medical intervention in this fight,” she said. In clinical trials, the Novavax … Read more

Bright Gambit announces its first five indie games

Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Watch now. Bright Gambit is an indie support initiative founded by a collective of games industry veterans. Its goal is to create more opportunities for growth, where there’s the most need. And today it is announcing five games. The … Read more

U.S. Retakes Top Spot in Supercomputer Race

The United States has regained a coveted speed crown in computing with a powerful new supercomputer in Tennessee, a milestone for the technology that plays a major role in science, medicine and other fields. Frontier, the name of the massive machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was declared on Monday to be the first to … Read more