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Sony details PlayStation VR2 for PS5: a 4K HDR OLED display, 2000×2040 pixels per eye, 110° FoV, eye tracking, haptic feedback, inside-out cameras, 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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| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Sources: Meta has stopped developing a new OS for its VR devices and upcoming AR glasses; the multiyear project involved hundreds of employees — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has stopped development of a new software operating system to power its virtual reality devices …
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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 Core i9 outperforms Apple's M1 Max and is the fastest CPU ever, although the i9 uses significantly more power than the M1 Max — Intel today unveiled new 12th-generation Core processors suitable for laptops, and as part of the announcement …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus unveils the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED with a 17.3" foldable screen, Intel's 12th-gen CPUs, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, and more, coming in Q2 for a TBD price — There's a more traditional 14-inch OLED Zenbook coming as well — Each year, it seems that more companies are trying out devices with foldable screens.| Lizzy Lawrence / Protocol: |
Online whiteboard tool Miro raises a $400M Series C at a $17.5B post-money 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart says it plans to expand InHome, its grocery service that delivers directly to customer's refrigerators, from 6M US households to 30M by the end of 2022 — Walmart is expanding its service that will deliver your groceries directly to your refrigerator, the company announced today.
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Popcorn Time, an open-source streaming service for pirated content launched in 2014, shuts down; in 2015, Netflix warned investors about Popcorn Time's rise — The tool made stealing movies and TV shows a little too easy and drew fury from Hollywood. — Popcorn Time, the once-popular app …
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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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon says it sold over 150M Fire TV devices worldwide, announces Ford and Stellantis deals to bring Fire TV to their in-car entertainment systems — Amazon is touting a major milestone for Fire TV, claiming it has sold more than 150 million of the streaming devices worldwide.| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC funding reached $643B in 2021, up from $335B in 2020 and ~$300B in 2019, with $29.4B in seed funding, $201B in early stage, and $413B in late stage — Venture funding in 2021 broke records across the board, Crunchbase data shows, with investment last year up more than 10x what it was a decade earlier.
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Profile of LumaFusion, a $30 video editing app for iOS and iPadOS that claims 930,000 users, amid speculation that Apple could bring Final Cut Pro to iPad — Bigger video-editing companies haven't committed themselves to bringing advanced tools to Apple's tablet. LumaFusion's creators did—and it's paid off.| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
If the metaverse takes off, it will take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games — In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird. — Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
As companies race to find practical applications for quantum computers, the short term focus is on boosting machine learning — Companies are jostling to be the first to find a practical application for quantum computers — The race is on to find the first practical use for quantum computing.
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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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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Xage, which helps secure critical physical infrastructure using a zero trust system, raises a $30M Series B led by Piva, bringing its total funding to $54M — Xage (pronounced Zage) is a startup working to keep critical infrastructure like oil and gas pipelines, water supplies and electrical grids up and running securely.
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