Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. The “great resignation” is rippling through the American workforce — with millions of people quitting their jobs. Virtual reality training is one of the things that might put a halt to that. In a research report dubbed […]
Cloud security provider Orca Security nabs $550M
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Los Angeles, California-based Orca Security, which provides security for public cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, today announced that it extended its series C round to $550 million at a $1.8 billion post-money valuation. […]
Identity protection provider Aura raises $200M at a $2.5B valuation
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Burlington, Massachusetts-based identity protection company Aura today announced it raised $200 million at a $2.5 billion post-money valuation, bringing its total sum raised to $650 million. CEO Hari Ravichandran said that the funds will be put toward […]
PlayStation Plus October 2021 free games: Good news for bored PS4 and PS5 subscribers
Playstation Now offers ‘hundreds of games on demand’ We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Following a week of heavy debate surrounding […]
Andrew Bosworth Will Be Facebook’s New CTO in 2022
This week marks Facebook’s next big step towards its metaverse future as current Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mike Schroepfer has announced he’ll be stepping down next year after 13 years at the company. Taking his place will be head of Facebook Reality Lab (FRL) Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, continuing Facebook’s work in virtual reality (VR) and […]
Speedata’s chip for analytics workloads gets a $55M boost
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Speedata, a semiconductor infrastructure company developing hardware accelerators for analytics and databases, today announced that it raised $55 million in a series A round led by Walden Catalyst Ventures, 83North, and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Pitango First, Viola […]
DeepMind proposes new benchmark to improve robots’ object-stacking abilities
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Stacking an object on top of another object is a straightforward task for most people. But even the most complex robots struggle to handle more than one such task at a time. That’s because stacking requires a range of different […]
FIFA to be renamed EA Sports FC according to new trademarks
Amidst rumblings that FIFA is undergoing a name change, newly discovered trademarks may reveal EA’s plans. EA has been using the FIFA name and brand for its football games since 1993, so it’s shocking to hear that it’s considering dropping the name. This isn’t hearsay or a rumour; EA itself recently said that it is […]
Unplugged Launches In October On Oculus Quest
Hand-tracked VR air guitar game, Unplugged, launches very soon on Oculus Quest. The music title, developed by Anotherway and published by Vertigo Games, hits the standalone headset on October 21. While anyone with an Oculus Quest can play the game, there is a PC VR version coming later this year that is limited to the […]
Lone Echo II Launch Trailer Debuts Ahead Of Oct 12 Release
Facebook debuted a new trailer for Lone Echo II a few days out from its release on October 12. You can check out the epic new trailer embedded above, which features a mix of new footage and some a better looks at sequences we saw peeks of in the gameplay trailer at the Oculus Gaming […]