June 12, 2018
Here’s what Sony announced at E3 2018
Sony wanted its E3 2018 press conference to be an event. Not the “we have 50 new titles to show you” event Microsoft just put on, so much…
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June 11, 2018
Here’s what Ubisoft announced at E3 2018
E3 news is officially coming fast and furious, a day ahead of the show’s official launch. Following a fairly disappointing showing from Square Enix, Ubisoft brought out the…
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Ubisoft partners with HitRECord to crowdsource ideas for Beyond Good and Evil 2
Ubisoft is working with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord crowdsourced content network to come up with ideas for the sequel to its popular Beyond Good and Evil game. The…
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Now Snapchat lets you unsend messages like Faceboook promised
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook messages were retracted from the inboxes of some users, six sources told TechCrunch in April. Facebook quickly tried to normalize that breach of trust by…
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Square Enix didn’t show off much at its E3 2018 showcase
Well, Square Enix just wrapped up a short and uneventful E3 press conference that really seemed to phone it in. No Final Fantasy VII remake details and nothing…
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Media startup Prøhbtd raises $8M to help bring cannabis to the mainstream
Prøhbtd, a startup that CEO Drake Sutton-Shearer said is designed to “build a bridge” between the cannabis industry and mainstream culture, is announcing that it has raised $8…
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Instagram plans June 20th launch event for long-form video hub
Last week TechCrunch reported Instagram will launch a long-form video hub, with a tentative June 20th launch date. Now Instagram is asking reporters to RSVP for a June…
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Chinese electric car startup Byton raises $500 million
Byton, a Chinese electric car startup, has secured a $500 million Series B funding round to fuel the development of smart, connected cars. Investors include FAW Group, Tus-Holdings…
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SoftBank Vision Fund leads $250M Series D for Cohesity’s hyperconverged data platform
San Jose-based Cohesity has closed an oversubscribed $250M Series D funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund, bringing its total raised to date to $410M. The enterprise software…
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By automating code compliance, UpCodes AI is ‘the spellcheck for buildings’
For many architects, the hardest part of their job starts after they finish designing a building, when the onerous process of code compliance begins. Written to ensure the…
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