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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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Russian Fisherman Shares Scary Photos of Deep-Sea Creatures

Roman Fedortsov is a Russian fisherman who has been working on trawler for 18 years. For the past several years, he has been shooting and sharing photos of the strange and scary deep sea creatures pulled up in his nets from the dark depths of the ocean floor. Fedortsov lives in the large port city of Murmansk. After high school, he enrolled in a marine-focused university. His specialization is 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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