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Roblox virtual pet adoption creators start their own studio, Uplift Games

Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  Adopt Me is the most popular game inside the user-generated content platform Roblox. Now the creators of Adopt Me are starting their own studio. Uplift Games is a remote-first studio with 40 employees. It will continue to work on Adopt Me, but the developer is also building new, unannounced projects. Adopt Me launched in 2017. It is…
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EA Play digital event set for July 22

Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  Electronic Arts announced today that it will broadcast EA Play event on July 22. This is essentially EA’s E3-without-E3 show. The publisher has been doing its own thing separate from the big trade show in recent…
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Xiaomi’s Under-Display Camera Tech Also Doubles as Rear Camera

Let’s Go Digital Xiaomi has been granted a patent to develop an under-screen smartphone camera that can rotate and therefore act both as a selfie and traditional rear-facing camera. Only founded in 2010, Xiaomi is a Chinese manufacturer whose smartphone line might be its most well-known in the west, but it that has developed many other innovative products from smart clocks to electric scooters.
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Edge AI chipset developer Sima.ai raises $80M

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Sima.ai, a company developing embedded edge hardware for machine learning applications, today announced that it raised $80 million in a series B round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. The startup says that the funds will be used to commercialize its first-generation system-on-a-chip product, as well as…
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How Does Luminar AI Compare to Lightroom Classic in 2021?

I wanted to see how Luminar AI works when compared to Lightroom in 2021, and to do so I took one image — a photo of a lavender field in the south of France — and processed it in both. First, let’s start with Lightroom. I chose to do some basic development to get the…
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TTArtisan Launches 90mm f/1.25 Lens for Leica M-Mount

TTArtisan has announced a new Leica M-Mount rangefinder lens that, even upon close inspection, looks remarkably similar to a Leica optic. The company promises smooth transitions between objects and bokeh for a “dreamy picture” with ideal depth of field and background blur. As reported by Photo Rumors, the TTArtisan 90mm f/1.25 is a manual rangefinder lens that looks as close to a true Leica…
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