Month: May 2020
Microsoft and Mojang Studios have sold 200 million copies of ‘Minecraft’
Fads come and go, but the Minecraft craze has yet to abate. Mojang Studios — the game’s creator — and Microsoft announced today that 200 million copies of the sandbox game have been sold since its launch in 2011. To put that into perspective, Grand… Source
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Uber lays off 3,000 more employees in latest round of COVID-19-inspired cuts
Uber is laying off 3,000 employees in the latest round of COVID-19-inspired cost-cutting, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an email to staff. The news, which was first reported over the weekend by The Wall Street Journal, comes as the ride-hailing company has seen an 80 percent drop in its ride-hailing…
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The first Vision Fund is officially done investing (and spent $100M every day of its existence)
There is a flurry of news out of SoftBank this morning, which announced its Fiscal Year 2019 (ending March 31, 2020) financial results overnight. It’s been a bad year for the Vision Fund, with huge losses at WeWork and Uber due to corporate incompetence, intrigue, and of course, COVID-19. But…
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Lenovo’s $400 digital picture frame is half-off if you pre-order it
At CES 2020, Lenovo showed off its new Smart Frame, an elegant $399 digital picture display the company said it would release in August. While the device is still coming out later this year, Lenovo is opening up pre-orders early. While supplies last,… Source
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‘Tetris Effect’ is now available on Oculus Quest
It’s been a year since the release of Oculus Quest, and to celebrate, it’s getting a bunch of new updates that’ll make its VR offering more fun and more useful. The biggest news is that hand tracking is now moving out the experimental features sectio… Source
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Oculus surpasses $100 million in Quest content sales
Despite a handful of devices and years of sales, Facebook has never shared unit sales of any of their VR headsets. This Today, Oculus released a new sales figure as the company reaches the 1 year anniversary of the release of the Quest headset. We didn’t get unit sales but…
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