Month: March 2021
Apple sues 11-year veteran MacBook designer for allegedly stealing trade secrets for a journalist
Apple is suing Simon Lancaster, a former product design architect at the company, accusing him of selling trade secrets and details on unreleased Apple products to an unnamed media correspondent. Lancaster apparently did this in hopes of gaining publicity for his next venture after leaving Apple. AppleInsider first reported on…
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Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale marks a potentially transformative moment for the art world
Today, the auction of an NFT digital art collage from a relatively unrecognized digital artist ended with a purchase price above $69 million. The work, called “Everydays — The First 5000 Days,” chronicled several years’ worth of daily sketches from the artist Mike Winkelmann — known online as Beeple. Unlike…
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Does your VC have an investment thesis or a hypothesis?
David Teten Contributor More posts by this contributor Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund Stéphane Nasser Contributor Venture capitalists love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. And yet, when you…
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Skyrim comes to Xbox Game Pass Skyrim the Board Game
Starting on March 12, Xbox Game Pass owners will be able to download Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Wolfenstein: The New Order and over a dozen other games at no extra cost. Nearly all of Bethesda’s games of the past 10 years will be coming to Game Pass,…
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Xbox boss says Microsoft’s Bethesda deal was all about exclusive games for Game Pass
Microsoft completed its $7.5 billion Bethesda acquisition earlier this week and initially hinted that “some new titles in the future” would be exclusive to Xbox and PC players. That some language left some wiggle room for the possibility of future Bethesda titles to appear on Sony’s PlayStation 5, Nintendo’s Switch,…
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PS5 bundle, RTX 3070, and RX 6800 XT pop up on Newegg Shuffle for a limited time PS5 internal storage concern
Today’s Newegg Shuffle, running from 1pm to 4pm EST, March 11, is a bit light, but it’s the first time we’ve seen the PS5 in a couple of weeks, so now’s your chance to put your name in a hat for the chance to pick up the hard to find…
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