GamingNews

Xbox, the FTC and Elephant Mario — quite the week | Kaser Focus

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. If you had told me at the beginning of the week that I was going to be following along as Xbox faced down the Federal Trade Commission and see Mario transform into a bipedal elephant, I would have taken the day so I could go lay down. Don’t even get me started on the part…
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GamingNews

Gaming companies are showing off new products at VidCon 2023

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. This year’s VidCon event is taking place this week in Anaheim, and several of the larger content creators are in attendance. However, several game publishers are also putting in an appearance, taking advantage of the presence of so many creators to show off some of their…
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NewsSpace

Landing in Living Rooms: LEGO Models of NASA Mars Rover and Helicopter

While NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are busy exploring Mars, one-tenth-scale buildable models of them have begun touching down in homes around the globe. Developed in cooperation with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, a new LEGO Technic building set is based on the real rover and helicopter, which have been roaming through Mars’ Jezero Crater since…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI video creation app Captions bags $25M from top VCs

Captions, an AI-powered video creation app for iOS that launched in 2021 and counted more than three million users to date, today announced a $25 million in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with additional funding provided by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and SV Angel. The company has now raised a total $40 million. It was founded by Gaurav Misra, former head of design…
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