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GamesBeat Decides 163: When will PlayStation 5 preorders begin?
On this GamesBeat Decides podcast, Imran Khan and Blessing Adeyoe from Kinda Funny join to talk about Xbox Series X and PS5...
The RetroBeat: Watch the first trailer for the Console Wars documentary
The documentary about Sega and Nintendo's '90s console wars with SNES and Genesis will be available on CBS All Access on...
AI Weekly: What ML practitioners are doing about climate change
Projects are underway to use AI to address climate change and its impact from groups like Climate Change AI and Climate...
Standalone VR headsets are finally ready to make a big leap forward
Snapdragon XR2 mixed reality chips launched last December, but haven't yet appeared in headsets. That will soon change,...
Tell Me Why review — A parable for diverse perspectives
Tell Me Why is a narrative adventure from Life Is Strange 2 developer Dontnod Entertainment, and it tells the story of...
Gary Marcus: COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for AI
COVID-19 may be a "wake-up call" for the environment and global equality, but Gary Marcus thinks it should serve as a wake-up...
Apple allows game streaming on iOS, but demands approval and a 30% cut
Apple loosened its restrictions in the iOS app store for streaming games from services such as Microsoft xCloud, Google Stadia,...
WildWorks’ Animal Jam online playground hits 125 million registered players after a decade
After a decade, WildWorks' Animal Jam has 3.3 million monthly active users and a lifetime total of 125 million registered...
ProBeat: The TikTok acquisition is not going to happen
ByteDance being forced to sell TikTok never made sense, and the reasons against a deal keep mounting thanks to Donald Trump and...
Researchers claim masks muffle speech, but not enough to impede speech recognition
New research investigates the acoustic effects of various mask types, which has implications for speech recognition systems.Read...
NPA News
Let’s get past the SVB drama
Hi all!
Given all the SVB hype over the past few days, let’s focus on what we can control and celebrate the Boston Startup Ecosystem for what it is. It’s incredible, it’s resilient, and they want to make the world a better place!
Top 10 Hardware VCs and excellent Startup Accelerators
Hi all!
… did you miss us in January? We were changing our newsletter setup a bit and decided to start in February.
Mass beats California for IPOs this year.
We hope you all had some fantastic Holidays and are like us now, preparing to party well into 2023 tonight. What a great year at NPA!
Boston produces the most startup founders
Boy, are we late this month, but we were pretty busy. Keep a lookout for some very exciting NPA news. We have been working on this for ~12 months, and it’s finally coming all together.
Lots of fresh dough for Boston startups
If you like tech and independent journalism, you might already have heard of Nicholas Thomson, the CEO at The Atlantic.
Showtime, Awards and Parties- you in?
Join us at the Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up on Friday, Sept. 16th, at Polar Park in Worcester, MA.
Climate-tech startups keep on thriving
Even with the decrease in VC funding in 2022, climate-tech startups raised more in the first six months of this year than they did in the first half of 2021.
Over $3B in new startup funding
Hi all, and happy summer!
I wish you all lots of sunshine and great fun.
Remember IPOs? Companies have raised just $4.9 billion via US IPOs this year, less than 6% of the record sum raised in the first half of 2021.
The solution to Supply Chain challenges
Summer has finally hit the NorthEast, and the various outdoor events we attended around Boston and Western Massachusetts have been fantastic.
China is falling but we got a $1 Billon new fund
The interest in Zero Emission Aviation continues to accelerate. In the past two years, we saw billions of dollars in new investments.