Category: Gaming
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Impulse bets shuttling satellites between orbits is big business, and raises $150M to scale up
Impulse Space has raised a massive new tranche of funding as big-name investors bet that moving satellites around in orbit will soon be a high demand service. The startup, which was founded by Tom Mueller three years ago, announced the $150 million Series B round on Tuesday. Impulse is developing a line of orbital transfer…
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Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a ‘warrior class’ excited to enact ‘violence on others in pursuit of good aims’
Palmer Luckey raged against America’s adversaries, endorsed completely autonomous weapons, and hinted at an Anduril IPO. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. After a three-minute hype video, complete with HD footage of drones colliding and military vehicles exploding, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey stepped onto the stage at Pepperdine University in…
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Peak XV trims fund size and fees as Indian market overheats
Peak XV, the largest India and Southeast Asia-focused venture firm, is reducing the size of a handful of its funds and lowering fees as it seeks to become “deeply aligned” with its limited partners. The firm, which secured capital commitments totaling $2.85 billion in mid 2022, informed its backers on Tuesday evening that it is…
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Motier Ventures unveils La Maison, a community space for the French tech ecosystem
On Tuesday evening local time, Motier Ventures, an early stage tech investment firm based in Paris, unveiled a startup hub called La Maison. This relatively new investor in the French tech ecosystem is the family office of the Houzé family — the owners of upmarket fashion retailer the Galeries Lafayette Group. As the Galeries Lafayette…
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Microsoft HoloLens 2 discontinued with no successor in sight
Microsoft was ahead of the game in the world of enterprise AR. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. In the wake of big augmented reality announcements from Meta and Snap, Microsoft has confirmed that its HoloLens 2 has been quietly discontinued. Interested parties can still pick up a unit until…
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Acceleron Fusion has raised $15M to take another stab at cold fusion, filing reveals
Where most startups aim to recreate the superheated, super-pressurized conditions inside of a star, Acceleron takes a different approach. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Fusion startups have been on a fundraising tear lately, and a young startup, Acceleron Fusion, is joining the pack, having raised $15 million of a…
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Runware uses custom hardware and advanced orchestration for fast AI inference
Sometimes, a demo is all you need to understand a product. And that’s the case with Runware. If you head over to Runware’s website, enter a prompt and hit enter to generate an image, you’ll be surprised by how quickly Runware generates the image for you — it takes less than a second. Runware is…
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Aspect Build gets $3.85M to help developers create software with Bazel
Monorepos are becoming an increasingly popular way to manage source code, but they require a slightly different toolset. Google developed its own internal build and test tool on top of its monorepo and then, in 2015, open sourced it as Bazel. Nine years on, there is a thriving ecosystem of Bazel-adjacent startups like NX and…
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Pinterest rolls out genAI tools for product imagery to advertisers
The new capability, rolling out Tuesday, will help advertisers who want to enhance their Pinterest Product Pins (ads) and attract more clicks, according to Pinterest. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Image inspiration and shopping site Pinterest is the latest tech company to roll out generative AI products to its…
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OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers
It’s been a tumultuous week for OpenAI, full of executive departures and major fundraising developments, but the startup is back at it, trying to convince developers to build tools with its AI models at its 2024 DevDay. The company announced several new tools Tuesday, including a public beta of its “Realtime API”, for building apps…