Amazon seeks to settle EU antitrust probe with set of offers – TechCrunch
Amazon has offered to limit its use of marketplace seller data and makes changes to ‘Buy Box’ rankings in a bid to settle antitrust concerns in the European Union, the…
Nintendo is buying an animation studio to help create its own ‘visual content’ | Engadget
Nintendo has acquired the Japanese CG production company Dynamo Pictures and plans to rebrand it as “Nintendo Pictures,” the company announced. Its aim with the new subsidiary is to develop…
Former staff and internal documents detail Celsius’ implosion; its own compliance unit warned of poor oversight and misrepresentation of financial information
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The Morning After: Hasbro can 3D-print your face onto your favorite action figure | Engadget
The Hasbro Selfie Series is a collaboration between the toy maker and 3D printing specialists Formlabs, can customize an action figure with your own face. Hasbro You can scan your…
Meta’s ‘Make-A-Scene’ AI blends human and computer imagination into algorithmic art | Engadget
Text-to-image generation is the hot algorithmic process right now, with OpenAI’s Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini) and Google’s Imagen AIs unleashing tidal waves of wonderfully weird procedurally generated art synthesized from…
UK-based stock trading app Lightyear has raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed and is launching in 19 European countries including Germany and France
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Jury convicts ex-CIA engineer for leaking the agency’s hacking toolset | Engadget
Joshua Schulte, the former CIA engineer arrested for what’s being called the biggest theft of classified information in the agency’s history, has been convicted by a federal jury. Schulte was…
Manifold Bio’s molecular ‘barcodes’ could break through pharma’s in vivo bottleneck – TechCrunch
In the creation of a new drug, there comes a point where you have to finally put the molecule in a real creature — one at a time — and…
Robin raises $30M to expand its office reservation software – TechCrunch
Thanks to the pandemic, teams are more distributed than ever. For some companies, that’s led to a disconnect between lower-level employees and leadership, the latter of whom are generally skeptical…
Bobidi rewards developers for testing companies’ AI models – TechCrunch
In the rush to build, test and deploy AI systems, businesses often lack the resources and time to fully validate their systems and ensure they’re bug-free. In a 2018 report,…