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Mozilla goes full incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup lab and early stage investments
After testing the waters this spring with its incubator-esque MVP Lab, Mozilla is doubling down on the effort with a formal program dangling $75,000 investments in front of early stage companies. The focus on “a better society” and the company’s open-source clout should help differentiate it from the other options…
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Don’t worry, it looks like Nvidia Ampere may actually be coming to GeForce cards
Nvidia has seemingly confirmed that its newly-announced Ampere GPU architecture will be coming to both GeForce and data center graphics cards. When it unveiled its 7nm Ampere microarchitecture earlier today, Nvidia focused entirely on the data center, with no mention of PC gaming or the consumer-facing GeForce RTX 3080. Instead,…
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The band that created the Cowboy Bebop theme song held a virtual performance
It’s the early 2000s. You stay up late to watch anime on your TV hoping your parents don’t hear. Next thing you know, you hear the iconic intro to Cowboy Bebop play, and all is well in the world. The Japanese band Seatbelts — which performed Cowboy Bebop’s opening theme,…
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Tetris Effect is out today on the Oculus Quest
Tetris Effect, the trippy musical VR take on Tetris that won plaudits in 2018 from people like… me, is now available on the Oculus Quest headset. The game was originally released for the PlayStation 4 and came to the Epic Games Store on PC last year. Tetris Effect is one…
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Xbox co-founder J. Allard is working on the Intellivison Amico
A reimagined version of Mattel Electronics’ Intellivision is scheduled to be released this fall. To help put the finishing touches on the Amico game console, Intellivision Entertainment — a separate entity than Mattel that owns the Intellivision bra… Source
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France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate speech content within 24 hours
France’s lower chamber of the parliament has voted in favor of a controversial law against hate speech on social networks and online platforms. As I described last year, online platforms will have to remove illicit content that has been flagged within 24 hours. Otherwise, companies will have to pay hefty…
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