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Amazon Luna cloud game streaming opens to Prime members on Prime Day
Amazon Prime Day is coming and Amazon Inc. is offering numerous benefits to Prime members, including no-invite priority access to Luna, the company’s cloud game streaming service. Before now, to get into the early access program, members had to request an invite, but on June 21 and 22, the two-day Amazon Prime Day, Prime members ...
Niantic partners with Hasbro to make Transformers AR mobile game
Niantic Inc., best known for “Pokemon GO,” announced today it has teamed up with Tomy Co. Ltd. and Hasbro Inc. to launch a new augmented reality title set in the Transformers universe. The game, titled “Transformers: Heavy Metal,” will bring the transforming robots to life in the real world through mobile devices the same way ...
Sustainable mineral blockchain company Circulor closes $14M funding round
Sustainable supply chain traceability technology company Circulor announced Thursday it closed $14 million in new funding led by the Westly Group. The Series A funding round was joined by Salesforce Ventures, BHP Ventures, Future Positive Capital, 24Haymarket, Sky Ocean Ventures and other existing investors. Circulor uses blockchain distributed ledger technology to deliver end-to-end traceability in supply chains in ...
Mythical Games raises $75M to launch ‘playable NFTs’ and blockchain gaming tech
Los Angeles-based gaming company Mythical Games today announced that it raised $75 million in a new funding round to launch its Blankos Block Party open-world multiplayer game as well as a blockchain platform with nonfungible tokens. The studio seeks to use the NFT technology as a platform for players to earn playable characters through what ...
Android 12 Beta 2 update gives users greater control over privacy
Google LLC announced today the release of Android 12 Beta 2, which comes with feature updates to security and privacy for users that allows them to understand and control how apps access their data, microphone and camera. The first Android 12 Beta was announced during Google I/O 2021 in May and focused on a new ...
Blockdaemon raises $28M to scale up enterprise blockchain infrastructure
Blockdaemon Inc., a distributed ledger blockchain infrastructure node management startup, today announced it closed a $28 million funding round led by Greenspring Associates. The Series A round was joined by cryptocurrency lender BlockFi Lending LLC, Goldman Sachs, Warburg Serres, Uphold Inc., Voyager Digital Ltd., Illuminate Financial and Hard Yaka. “This funding represents a significant milestone ...
Sentry updates app monitoring with custom dashboards and ticket automation
Sentry, provider of application monitoring tools, today announced new capabilities for its enterprise tools with the addition of customizable dashboards and automated ticket creation for its Jira and Azure DevOps integrations. “Enterprises often have multiple teams contributing to a growing number of applications, driving a need for tools that foster cross-team collaboration and visibility into ...
At WWDC, Apple announces iOS 15, iPadOS 15, WatchOS 8 and much more
Apple Inc. opened up its annual Worldwide Developers Conference today with a wealth of announcements, including preview features for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, WatchOS 8, MacOS Monterey and much more. “For many customers, iPhone has become indispensable, and this year we’ve created even more ways it can enhance our daily lives,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s ...
Shipa launches Kubernetes DevOps app management platform
Shipa Corp., a Kubernetes application development and management platform, today announced the launch of Shipa Cloud that will assist developers, DevOps teams and platform engineers with the management and support of cloud-native applications. Shipa Cloud provides a secure developer-centric platform for managing operating applications on Kubernetes. This includes the automatic creation and deployment of all ...
NortonLifeLock adds Ethereum mining capability to its antivirus software
NortonLifeLock Inc., the provider of Norton 360 antivirus software, announced Wednesday the launch of a new feature for the software called Norton Crypto, which is designed to allow users to obtain cryptocurrency safely through a process called mining. Beginning today, select customers of Norton 360 in Norton’s early adopter program will be invited to mine ...