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Snap quietly acquired 3D-scanning startup Th3rd last year

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Snap quietly acquired Amsterdam-based 3D-scanning studio Th3rd in the second quarter of last year, at a time when the company was looking to bolster its AR-powered commerce ambitions. Yesterday, Snap announced it would start offering its AR tools to enterprise customers. In July 2021, it acquired 3D and AR commerce company Vertebrae.

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AM Ventures extrudes $100M to support industrial 3D printing

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Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. It lists Headmade Materials , LightForce Orthodontics and Conflux Technology among some of its marquee investments. Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. M&A volume climbed from $3.26

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Similarly, clothing brand Under Armour recently produced an ad that used AI-generated 3D models of the British boxer Anthony Joshua, based on videos they took of him in the past. But what we’re learning from public announcements like these might just scratch the surface of gen AI use cases for the enterprise.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

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Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI technologies — that answers may not be truthful, generated images may lack compositional integrity, and outputs may be biased — but he’s moving ahead anyway. You can then move on to editing very quickly, looking for errors and confabulations.”

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How enterprises get ahead using hybrid cloud for innovation overlay

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A 2022 survey of innovation and business strategy conducted by the International Monetary Fund found that 40% of innovation-oriented companies (SMBs to large enterprises) reduce costs as a result of new product innovations which, on average, account for 20% of all sales. With the promise of 2.5

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We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji

DevOps.com

The post We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji appeared first on DevOps.com. In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.