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Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more — And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
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| Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iOS 16 webpage now lists iCloud Shared Photo library as “coming later this year”; the feature was also removed from the latest iOS 16 betas — Apple announced iCloud Shared Photo Library as part of iOS 16, but it appears that the feature won't arrive in the iOS 16 release on September 12.
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation — With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyoncé as if painted by Vincent van Gogh …
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet's Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January — Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that's previously experimented with diabetes-detecting contact lenses …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ says Google spends “enormous numbers” to be the default search engine on browsers and all US phones in its antitrust case's first substantive hearing — Alphabet Inc.'s Google pays billions of dollars each year to Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and other telecom giants …
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| Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: |
Some ex-staff say Patreon laid off its entire cybersecurity team this week, raising user concerns; Patreon says the move will have “no impact” on its security — Patreon laid off its security team this week, according to several former employees, sparking cybersecurity concerns among users …
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| Ornella Hernandez / Blockworks: |
Web3 game publisher Revolving Games raised $13.2M+ from Pantera Capital, Animoca Brands, Polygon, and others, bringing its seed funding to $25M+ — - $2.4 billion has been invested in GameFi in 2022 — Web3 devs “should look to build on what has worked for over a decade in Web2,” said CEOs| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon acquires Cloostermans, a Belgian mechatronics company that makes tech to move and stack heavy palettes as well as robotics for packaging product orders — Amazon has made a string of startup acquisitions over the years to build out its robotics business; now, the e-commerce leviathan …
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| Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post: |
Streaming television is going through an existential crisis as users cancel services and creators fear having their show or movie deleted on an executive's whim — Missing archives, less ambitious programming, higher prices: Creators and subscribers say they're seeing the fallout from television's big revolution| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Isovalent, the creator of open-source networking and security solution for cloud environments Cilium, has raised a $40M Series B led by Thomvest Ventures — There's no question that Kubernetes has become the new enterprise standard when it comes to building and operating modern applications.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
France-based Gravitee.io, a popular open-source API management service, raised $30M led by Riverside Acceleration Capital, bringing its total funding to $41M — Gravitee Topco Ltd., the creator of a popular application programming interface management service, is feeling richer today after closing on a $30 million funding round.
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| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Quentin Tarantino and Miramax settle their copyright infringement lawsuit over Pulp Fiction NFTs and say they may collaborate to release more NFTs in the future — Last fall, movie director Quentin Tarantino announced that he would auction ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs to the public.| CoinDesk: |
Chainalysis says it helped the US government recover about $30M stolen from Axie Infinity by the North Korea-linked hackers Lazarus Group earlier in 2022 — Hackers stole over $600 million from Axie earlier this year. — Crypto analytics firm Chainalysis announced Thursday it helped …
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