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Sony says its upcoming VR headset PS VR2 for PS5 will have a 4K HDR OLED display, 2000×2040 pixels per eye resolution, 110-degree FoV, haptic feedback, and more — Sexy specs include dedicated eye tracking, over 4 million pixels per eye. — Sony's trickle of information about its future …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
NFT marketplace OpenSea raises a $300M Series C led by Paradigm and Coatue at a $13.3B post-money valuation — OpenSea, one of the most talked about blockchain start-ups in Silicon Valley, said on Tuesday that had it raised $300 million in new venture capital, making it the latest company …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Intel claims its 12th-gen 14-core Intel i9 outperforms Apple's M1 Max and is the fastest CPU ever, although the i9 uses significantly more power than M1 Max — Intel today unveiled new 12th-generation Core processors suitable for laptops, and as part of the announcement …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Microsoft and Qualcomm partner to develop custom chips for AR glasses and integrate their software, such as Microsoft Mesh and Snapdragon Spaces — The news points to Microsoft looking to shrink the HoloLens 2 down to new products that could connect with phones.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Home Hub, a SmartThings controller with a docked tablet, launching in South Korea in H1 2022, and says it joined the Home Connectivity Alliance — The new smart home controller from Samsung looks like something Apple or Google should make — Samsung introduced …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
In the fall, John Deere will start selling its fully autonomous 8R tractor, which can gather data about the soil to improve its algorithms as it operates — The automation, and control of the resulting data, raise questions about the role of human farmers. … SOURCE DATA — TECHNOLOGY
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| Ben Winslow / KSTU: |
Property management software company Entrata cuts ties with its co-founder and former CEO after he sent an anti-Semitic email to Utah tech and political leaders — SALT LAKE CITY — The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silcon Slopes tech firm, has resigned his position after sending an email …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Livepeer, an Ethereum-based decentralized video streaming service, raises a $40M Series B from Tiger Global and others, bringing its total funding to $51M — Livepeer, a decentralized video streaming platform built on the Ethereum blockchain, has raised $20 million in a Series B extension round.
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| Lizzy Lawrence / Protocol: |
Online whiteboard tool Miro raises a $400M Series C led by Iconiq Growth at a $17.5B valuation, up from $725M in April 2020, and says it has 30M users — Whiteboard tool Miro announced today that it has joined the unicorn ranks with a $17.5 billion post-money valuation.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia debuts RTX 3070 Ti, up to 70% faster than 2070, and 3080 Ti, coming February 1 to laptops that start at $1.5K and $2.5K respectively, and teases 3090 Ti — Nvidia is spreading out its RTX technology wider with the unveiling of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti, and 3090 Ti graphics cards.
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| Jabari Young / CNBC: |
Fanatics acquires trading card company Topps' name and its sports and entertainment divisions, sources say for ~$500M, as Fanatics builds out its NFT offerings — - Sports e-commerce company Fanatics has acquired sports trading card company Topps, sources confirmed to CNBC on Monday night.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Fractal Analytics, which offers enterprise AI analysis tools, raises $360M from TPG at a $1B+ valuation ahead of an IPO — Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and San Francisco-headquartered AI startup …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing a Repost button that lets users repost videos from their For You feed to mutual friends' For You feeds — TikTok is testing its own version of Twitter's retweet with the addition of a new “Repost” button that allows users to amplify videos on the platform by sharing them with their own followers.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD unveils Ryzen 6000 laptop CPUs using TSMC's 6nm process, with a Microsoft Pluton security processor and up to double the graphics performance of Ryzen 5000 — Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its new AMD Ryzen 6000 Series mobile processors that blend its Zen 3+ core with AMD RDNA 2 graphics.
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