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JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Games raises $40M for games we play and watch

Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  Bad Robot Games, the game division of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot entertainment company, has raised more than $40 million to build games that are “as compelling to watch as they are to play.” Galaxy Interactive led the round, with participation from existing investors Horizons Ventures, Iconiq Capital, and Tencent. The financing follows…
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Google demos LaMDA, a next-generation AI for dialogue

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. During a keynote address at Google I/O 2021, Google’s annual developer conference, the company announced LaMDA, a sophisticated language model that Google says is far better at understanding the…
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I Found My Own Stolen Lens for Sale Online and There’s Nothing I Can Do

One night two years ago, someone stole $10,000 of my camera equipment. Just recently, I found one of my more iconic lenses — a pink Handevision 40mm f/0.85 Mark II — for sale online. The police are slow to respond, and eBay won’t help until law enforcement is involved. My name is Nathan Cowlishaw, but my business and brand as a professional tour guide are Nathan Arizona, LLC and Talking…
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Photoshop’s ‘Save As’ Function Has Changed on Mac. Here’s Why

As part of its May 2021 release of Photoshop on Desktop for Mac — version 22.4 — Adobe made a significant change to how the “Save As” command works. Rather than continuing to act as it has across applications on all computers for decades, Adobe altered the basic functionality and has left users baffled. In an update that was pushed out last week, Adobe notes that it has added a new save…
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Google details new AI accelerator chips

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At Google I/O 2021, Google today formally announced its fourth-generation tensor processing units (TPUs), which the company claims can complete AI and machine learning training workloads in…
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MoMA Wants Your Photos for Free, Perpetually, and ‘Any Purpose’

The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is soliciting photographers to share photos on Instagram based on monthly themes. Those who participate will be featured on the MoMA’s social channels, but also give the museum significant rights to use the photos “for any purpose.” In honor of National Photography Month and its new exhibition Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography…
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