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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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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Sony says its upcoming VR headset PS VR2 for PS5 will have a 4K HDR OLED display, 2000×2040 pixels per eye, 110° FoV, eye-tracking, 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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Sources: Meta has stopped developing an OS for its VR and AR devices; the project had been ongoing for several years and involved hundreds of employees — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has stopped development of a new software operating system to power its virtual reality devices … | 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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| 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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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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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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| 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.
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Popcorn Time, an open source streaming service for pirated content launched in 2014, has shut down; in 2015, Netflix warned investors about Popcorn Time — The tool made stealing movies and TV shows a little too easy and drew fury from Hollywood. — Popcorn Time, the once-popular app … | 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart says it plans to expand InHome, its grocery service that delivers directly to customer's refrigerators, from 6M households across the US to 30M in 2022 — Walmart is expanding its service that will deliver your groceries directly to your refrigerator, the company announced today.
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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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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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| 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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| 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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon says it has sold over 150M Fire TV devices worldwide — Amazon is touting a major milestone for Fire TV, claiming it has sold more than 150 million of the streaming devices worldwide. And it announced deals with Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis to bring Fire TV to the automakers' in-car entertainment systems.| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
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.| 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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