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The DeanBeat: Apple v. Epic — a briefing on the antitrust arguments and interesting facts
Epic Games has argued that Apple's actions have stunted Epic's efforts to create the foundations for the Metaverse, or the...
Twitter expands election misinformation rules to include posts that claim victory prematurely
Twitter said it will label or remove misinformation aiming to undermine the U.S. election, including posts claiming victory...
Congress probes how AI will impact U.S. economic recovery
Congress heard testimony today about how the U.S. government should fund and regulate tech like AI that can eliminate jobs in...
Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
The newest version of Microsoft's DeepSpeed library includes optimizations for training trillion-parameter machine learning...
Riders Republic is Ubisoft’s multiplayer extreme-sports compilation
Riders Republic is Ubisoft's new massively multiplayer extreme-sports game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC. It is...
Hyper Scape launches turbo mode September 15
Ubisoft announced that its Hyper Scape battle royale game will get a turbo mode that speeds up the gameplay on September...
Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and misinformation
Google says its automated systems are becoming better at recognizing breaking news and detecting false and misleading...
Immortals: Fenyx Rising (formerly Gods & Monsters) is Ubisoft’s Zelda: Breath of the Wild
We played 2.5 hours of Immortals: Fenyx Rising, and the game is extremely like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in many...
Aiden Pearce returns in Watch Dogs: Legion as playable character
Aiden Pearce, the star of the first Watch Dogs game, will return as a playable character in Watch Dogs: Legion arriving on...
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game is coming back
During its Ubisoft Forward event today, the publisher announced that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game will become available...
NPA News
Vulture Capitalism in Supply Chain
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Robotics funding, first 2022 exit and more supply chain woes
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $175 million in investments for clean energy technology projects for 68 research and development projects.
2022 NPAs Boston Startups to Watch & more
Cleantech investment exploded in 2021 — the first half of the year alone saw over $60 billion flow to climate-tech startups. That momentum could continue this year. It’s estimated that 14% of VC dollars will go to climate techs.
2021 turns out to be a record year
It’s been super busy the first couple of weeks of 2022, which clearly delayed the release of our January newsletter.
Go check out this Web3 thing below. They are either all participating in psychedelic drug trials and upped the dosage, or I am just not buying it, but feel free to convince me otherwise.
Santa is charging for delivery this year
As the year comes to an end, we want to thank and congratulate all the 2021 NPA’s Startups to Watch for their incredible accomplishments during this challenging Covid year.
China hands US the lead.
Here is your chance to put a New England Startup with Hardware content on a winning pedestal for 2022. See more below.
And oh geeze, it’s just six weeks until Christmas! Start buying presents now as there won’t be much left in December.
how girls will rule robotics.
Boom! Starry to go public via Blank-Check deal valued at $1.66B.
NPA’s 2021 Startups to Watch are killing it!
September 20th was Special! Locus Robotics announced that it has acquired Waypoint Robotics.
$17.4 billion funding for Massachusetts startups
Massachusetts startups raised a record $17.4 billion in VC funding during the first six months of 2021.
New CEOs, Mega Rounds and good ol’ Ops News
Just when my airline awards account hit rock bottom, I saw this CNN report on a 2021 finalist of the Crystal Cabin Awards. Just when my airline awards account hit rock bottom, I saw this CNN report on a 2021 finalist of the Crystal Cabin Awards. The name sounds interesting, “Chaise Longue Economy Seat”, but geez, imagine being at the bottom row and the dude in the top row lets one rip.