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Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal — On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its next high-end Xbox console, codenamed Project Scarlett, is coming Fall 2020 and will support 8K gaming, be 4X as powerful as the Xbox One X — Project Scarlett arrives in fall 2020 — Microsoft is revealing the first details about its next-generation Xbox hardware today.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's xCloud console streaming service to let users stream their Xbox One library, including Xbox Game Pass, to many platforms; preview coming in October — Microsoft has been teasing its project xCloud game streaming service since October, and we're now starting to hear more details on how it will work.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which gives access to PC and Xbox games for $15/month and includes Xbox Live Gold — Xbox Live Gold is also included in the subscription — Microsoft first unveiled its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription earlier this year, with access to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass games.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft acquires Psychonauts-maker Double Fine Productions, demos a trailer for Psychonauts 2 which is coming to Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, and PC — As it did last year, Microsoft used its Xbox E3 keynote to announce its moves in bulking up its in-house gaming content.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Vectra, which uses AI to analyze network traffic and help companies detect cyberattacks, raises $100M Series E led by TCV, bringing the total raised to $220M+ — Alongside the wave of acquisitions that took place in the past few weeks, the cybersecurity industry has seen a number of startups raise substantial funding rounds.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
UK-based Privitar, which provides data privacy software for large organizations including HSBC and UK's NHS, raises $40M Series B led by Accel — Privitar, a software startup that helps enterprises and other organizations engineer privacy protection into their various data projects …
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| Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: |
A look at EverQuest, the 20-year-old game that served as the model for many other MMORPGs, inspired over a dozen spin-offs, and is still running to this day — A game born in an era of dial-up Internet is still doing well after all this time—how?! — Twenty years ago …
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| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Aurora partners with Fiat Chrysler to develop and deploy self-driving commercial vehicles including Ram trucks and Fiat Professional models — Days after abandoning merger talks with France's Renault, Fiat Chrysler is shifting its focus to a new partnership: teaming up with Silicon Valley tech startup Aurora …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Spacemaker, which uses AI to help architects, urban planners, and developers make design decisions, raises $25M Series A co-led by Atomico and Northzone — By 2050, the world will be home to nearly 10 billion people, some 2.5 billion more than the planet's population today — and two-thirds of those will live in cities.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Q&A with Stadia chief Phil Harrison on Google's commitment to the service, possibility of subscribing to libraries of individual publishers, free multiplayer — While Google does not have a show floor presence at the gaming conference, Stadia head Phil Harrison did sit down for his “only E3 interview” on Sunday.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Election Systems & Software says it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots, amid election security concerns — Voting machine maker ES&S has said it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots in a jurisdiction.
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