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Admix raises $25M Series B to scale up in-game ads, and prep for Metaverse gaming

TechCrunch

The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited.

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Why, though? Apple’s too-expensive gaming console

The Hustle

Apple’s great… … at a lot of stuff, but it’s never quite broken into the $214B+ video game industry. Macs weren’t designed for games, so studios didn’t develop for them, leaving little incentive for gaming enthusiasts to choose Apple. As of January 2023, ~96% of Steam players gamed on Windows machines.

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Jio Platforms invests $200 million in Google-backed Glance

TechCrunch

Jio Platforms is investing $200 million in Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on Android handsets’ lockscreen, the two said Monday, the latest in a series of bets from Mukesh Ambani’s empire as it looks to expand its offering to more than 420 million telecom subscribers it reaches in the South Asian market.

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Shells Review – Best Personal Cloud Computer

The Crazy Programmer

Virtual desktops are preinstalled copies of operating systems on the cloud. It helps in isolating the desktop environment from the existing system that is accessible on any device. All of the high-end processing tasks and heavy lifting operating system work is carried out on the cloud and not the existing system.

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Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI

TechCrunch

How it works is that it uses clusters of lab-cultivated neurons from human stem cells to form what it calls a “DishBrain” which is then hooked-up to hard silicon to create what it describes as a Biological Intelligence Operating System (biOS).

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Daily Crunch: Used-car marketplace Sylndr lands $12.6M pre-seed round, sets new record for MENA startups

TechCrunch

No, it’s super-Solana : If you’ll forgive the utterly dodgy Superman reference, Rita explores whether StepN, the latest crypto gaming craze, makes any sense. This is a similar antitrust legal battle against the tech giants that Epic Games is fighting itself. Is it a nerd? Is it insane? Buoyed by a new infusion of $6.2 Startups and VC.

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Stuck with Windows 7? Here’s a security game plan

The Parallax

Last week, Microsoft’s Windows 7, once the go-to operating system of nearly 60 percent of all computers , reached the company’s designated end of the road for security patches. Microsoft said in a statement that after supporting the operating system for 10 years, the company is moving on. .

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