Month: February 2021
Former Asana employees want to take on Discord with a positive platform for creator communities
In a creator-economy world, if you’re only as good as your last YouTube video, then your next YouTube video had better be bigger and louder than the last. Vibely, a new startup co-founded by Asana alumni Teri Yu and Theresa Lee, wants to turn the constant, and often exhausting, beast…
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Google closes game development studios, but promises Stadia will go on Google Stadia
Google’s run in game development was short but sweet. The company announced that it plans to shut down its internal development studio and divert all resources to enticing third-party developers to launching games on Google Stadia. Google only began making its own games in the last two years, and now…
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Netflix and a famed film author already optioned movies about GameStop, Reddit and Wall Street
It looks like we’ll be spoiled for choice when it comes to movies about the WallStreetBets / GameStop saga: Deadline is reporting that both MGM and Netflix have plans to make one, before the dust has even settled (via Kotaku and Polygon). If you weren’t paying attention to the stock-spikes,…
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Daily Crunch: Google shutters internal game studios
Google rethinks its gaming strategy, Microsoft rolls out its quantum computing platform and UiPath is now valued at $35 billion. This is your Daily Crunch for February 1, 2021. The big story: Google shutters internal game studios When Google announced its Stadia cloud platform, it also said it was forming…
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Intel Alder Lake-P specs appear online showing a 14-core, 20-thread design Intel
Intel’s next mobile processor, the 12th-generation chip codenamed Alder Lake, is a couple months away, but details about the CPU series are starting to appear online including a new benchmark result showing a 14-core, 20-thread design for one of the Alder Lake-P CPUs. The new benchmark comes courtesy of Geekbench…
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Robinhood plummets back down to a one-star rating on Google Play
Investment app Robinhood has plummeted back down to a one-star rating on Google Play, thanks to a flood of thousands of new negative reviews. The latest low rating comes just days after Google salvaged the app’s rating by removing nearly 100,000 reviews, following a flood of negative ratings after the…
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