MultiVersus gets a closed alpha and EVO tournament
MultiVersus is getting a closed alpha next week and will be at EVO this year......»»
Microsoft rolls out night mode for Xbox Insiders
The new feature can be found in the settings menu for Xbox Insiders participating in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring, an “invite only” program that allows members to test future Xbox OS builds. As highlighted in a quick demo from The Verge’s Tom Warr.....»»
Canopy raises $15M Series A after posting 4.5x customer growth in H1 2021
Canopy's leaders expect focused fintech products to win out over large bundles of services. Canopy Servicing announced this morning it recently closed a $15 million Series A. The startup sells software to fintechs and others, allowing custo.....»»
Two months after its Series A, Pintu gets $35M in new funding led by Lightspeed
Just two months after its last funding announcement, Indonesian crypto assets platform Pintu has closed a $35 million Series A+. The new round was led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from returning investors like Alameda Ventures, Blockcha.....»»
Amazon"s MMO New World is delayed again, release date pushed one more month
The announcement was made on Twitter, where the development team wrote a letter to fans thanking them for participating in the closed beta and explaining why the release had to be pushed. The team will take players' feedback from the beta "to make Ne.....»»
Baleon Capital closes first fund to provide capital infusion to healthcare startups
Baleon Capital will invest in pre-Series A and Series A companies focused on health and medical care in the United States. Baleon Capital, a one-year-old venture capital firm started by investment veteran Jon Kaiden, closed its first fund t.....»»
Thick smoke over Athens as suburbs battle wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters, water-bombing planes and helicopters battled forest fires near Athens on Tuesday that saw villages evacuated and part of a major motorway closed, officials said......»»
HyperX Cloud Alpha gaming headset is down to $70
The HyperX Cloud Alpha are among the best budget headsets you can buy right now for gaming and they perform just as well when listening to other media. They're down to $70 on Amazon from the regular $90-$100......»»
White-label SaaS shipping startup Outvio closes $3M round led by Change Ventures
Outvio, an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. Also participating were TM.....»»
Unreal Engine 5 impresses in latest technical demos
Whereas the Alpha Point demo features real-time lighting and reflections alongside more than 100 million triangles, the character rendering test features 170,000 triangles on the man’s body in addition to 31,000 triangles on the face and 3.5 millio.....»»
German startup Aleph Alpha raises $27M Series A round to build ‘Europe’s OpenAI’
With Microsoft now being an investor in OpenAI the field now more open for new insurgents into the open-source AI arena. Now a German company hopes to take on the next AI mantle and produce something akin to the success of the GPT-3 AI model. German.....»»
Alpha variant of COVID-19 spread via "super-seeding" event in UK, research finds
The rapid spread of the Alpha variant of COVID-19 in the UK resulted from biological changes in the virus and was enhanced by large numbers of infected people 'exporting' the variant around the country, in what the researchers call a 'super-seeding'.....»»
The Incredible Physics of Simone Biles" Yurchenko Double Pike
Calculating angular velocity and the moment of inertia isn’t quite as hard as competing in the Olympic gymnastics tournament—but it’s pretty darn tough......»»
Rivian raises another $2.5B, pushing its EV war chest up to $10.5B
Rivian announced Friday that it has closed a $2.5 billion private funding round led by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Ford Motor and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. Third Point, Fidelity Management an.....»»
Index Ventures’ trio of new funds leads to $3 billion, and more TikTok
Index Ventures has closed a trio of new funds: a $900 million early-stage fund, a $2 billion growth-stage fund and a previously announced $200 million seed-stage fund. The close gives Index $3 billion in new capital, its largest tranche yet, to deplo.....»»
Indonesian B2B marketplace GudangAda raises more than $100M in new funding
GudangAda, a Jakarta-based marketplace that brings wholesalers closer to retail stores and other buyers, announced it has closed a Series B of more than $100 million. The company says the round was oversubscribed, passing its initial target of $75 mi.....»»
Mural raises $50M Series C after tripling its ARR in the last year
This morning Mural, a startup that builds digital collaboration software with a focus on visual presentation, announced that it has closed a $50 million Series C. The new capital, co-led by prior investors Insight Partners and Tiger Global, values th.....»»
Employment Hero gets $140M AUD Series E led by Insight Partners, grows valuation to $800M AUD
Four months after announcing its last round, Employment Hero has closed another $140 million AUD (about $103 million USD) in funding. The Series E was led by Insight Partners, the venture capital firm known for its ScaleUp program to help tech compan.....»»
Indian food delivery startup Swiggy raises $1.25 billion led by SoftBank and Prosus
It took SoftBank several years, but the Japanese investment giant is now ready to bet on India’s food delivery market. Swiggy said on Tuesday it has closed a $1.25 billion financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Prosus Ventures. The new f.....»»
Tom Clancy’s XDefiant is a free-to-play shooter, closed beta starts next month
Tom Clancy's XDefiant will let players play as members of factions from across the Tom Clancy universe......»»
17 million gallons of sewage discharged from treatment plant; some LA beaches closed
An incident at the Hyperion sewage treatment plant in Playa del Rey has caused 17 million gallons of sewage to be discharged into the ocean......»»