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EA will crowdfund the prize pool for Apex Legends Global Series Championship to as much as $3M

May 18, 2021
Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  Electronic Arts said it will tap players to crowdfund the prize pool for the Apex Legends Global Series Championship to as much as $3 million. The prize pool will rise from $1 million based on fan purchases of special bundles in the free-to-play battle royale game Apex Legends, which has been downloaded more than 100 million…
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Data and AI operations startup Coiled nabs $21M

May 18, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Coiled, a DataOps and AIOps platform that seeks to increase access to scalable computing, today announced that it raised $21 million in series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Alongside the…
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SAS flexes AI ambitions with Viya platform expansion

May 18, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. During its Virtual SAS Global Forum 2021 event, SAS today announced an expansion for its SAS Viya platform, which is used for analyzing data and building AI models. The platform will now be available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, along with existing support for Microsoft Azure. In addition, SAS pledged to…
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Google demos LaMDA, a next-generation AI for dialogue

May 18, 2021
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 context of conversations than leading models today. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that LaMDA, which was built for dialogue…
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Photoshop’s ‘Save As’ Function Has Changed on Mac. Here’s Why

May 18, 2021
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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