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Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup

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The founding team doesn’t have an awful lot to say about what exactly they’re building, except that it’s a “social layer” for consumers based around interacting with virtual spaces that capture the “spirit” of real-life geographies and cities.

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Daily Crunch: European subscription prices for Amazon Prime will increase in September 

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Oh, and you don’t even need to read the article, but do yourself a favor and look at the pictures in this piece I published this morning: BMF’s microscopic 3D printing powers are magnificent, and I’m awestruck by how far 3D printing has come. The TechCrunch Top 3. too, Frederic reports.

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Curio lets NFT die-hards browse, track and buy all in one browser tab

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” They tried to apply that thinking to their social app and, it didn’t go so well. Curio pulls in information from the OpenSea API and the blockchain itself, with plans to incorporate data from LooksRare soon. “If you try to add incentives to relationships, things get weird,” Bader said.

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Daily Crunch: Hackers pinched LastPass customers’ encrypted password vaults, parent company admits

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If you like the great outdoors : Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform, acquired Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors, to make that next hike a doozy, Paul reports. Carly writes that the company’s owner, GoTo, says hackers stole customers’ encrypted backups.

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AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot

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While the video engine powering the 3D character rending components of this “digital human” version of Einstein is the work of another synthesized media company — UneeQ — which is hosting the interactive chatbot version on its website. So there’s a bit more than AI artifice going on here too.

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Daily Crunch: Adobe snaps up Figma in proposed $20B deal that has some scratching their heads

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If you don’t follow cryptocurrency, this means that Ethereum, one of crypto’s most popular blockchains, has now switched to proof-of-stake consensus, which also means it will now consume a lot less electricity, Romain writes. Spoiler, they dodge questions about social media and national security.

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The five technologies that matter: how the C-suite can deploy each for post-pandemic positioning

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The five technologies that matter the most at this moment in time are Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Robotics, Synthetic Biology and 3D printing. They interact with each other, creating previously unthinkable conditions of technological, biological, material, social and psychological change.