Veterans of Xsolla and MyGames Venture Capital (MGVC) today announced the launch of a Narwhal Accelerator. This new accelerator aims to connect up-and-coming gaming companies and startups to support, resources and investment funding. Dmitrii Filatov, formerly Xsolla’s funding lead and MGVC’s executive producer; and Grigory […]
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Apple weighs taking commissions on sideloaded apps in EU, report says
Apple is determined to take a slice of in-app purchases, no matter how users access apps or make their payments, it seems. After dropping commissions to 27% following a court ruling that said Apple had to allow app developers the ability to point to their […]
Court rules in favor of a web scraper, Bright Data, which Meta had used and then sued
Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm, Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long history of suing data scraping businesses, claimed […]
Resolution Games announces first Dungeons & Dragons VR game
Resolution Games announced today it’s collaborating with Wizards of the Coast on the first D&D virtual reality game.
Insta360’s auto-swiveling Link webcam has fallen to its best price to date
Who says webcams can’t be fun? | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge At this point, I think it’s pretty safe to say that remote work is here to stay in at least some capacity, even if Meta, Apple, Google, and a host of […]
Self-driving vehicle company Aurora cuts 3% of its workforce
Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle technology company aiming to launch a “driverless” self-driving trucks business by the end of 2024, laid off dozens of workers this week, according to sources familiar with the action. The Pittsburgh-based company, which also has facilities in California, Colorado, Texas […]
Wired headphones are about to have a mini revival
It’s been over seven years since Apple found the “courage” to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone, in turn forcing wireless headphones into the limelight. To this day, listening to hi-res lossless music on a phone usually means a hunt for a rare […]
Google shows off Lumiere, a space-time diffusion model for realistic AI videos
Lumiere was trained on a dataset of 30 million videos, along with their text captions, and is capable of generating 80 frames at 16 fps. The source of this data, however, remains unclear at this stage.
Google announces new AI-powered features for education
Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK. AI-powered features Google already allows teachers to add questions to a YouTube video as part […]