What Is Mixed Reality? (+How It Differs From Augmented Reality)
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Realme X2 will sport a 32MP selfie camera
The Realme X2, arriving next week on September 24, will boast a 64MP quad camera setup at the back. Today, the company confirmed that the X2 will come with a 32MP selfie shooter. Realme also shared a poster on Chinese social network Weibo showing off the X2’s rear design, which you can see, is similar…
Macron announces €5 billion late-stage investment pledge from institutional investors – TechCrunch
President Emmanuel Macron announced in a speech ahead of France Digitale Day that the French government has convinced institutional investors to invest more heavily in late-stage VC funds and asset managers in one way or another. Institutional investors have committed to investing $5.5 billion (€5 billion). “We’ll have €2 billion that will go in so-called…
Colorcon, which develops colorants, coatings and films for pharmaceutical giants, has a new $50 million fund – TechCrunch
Colorcon, a 58-year-old company that develops, supplies and supports specialty products for the pharmaceutical industry — think food colorants, nutritional coatings, the film on time-release medications — is getting into the business of funding startups. It isn’t bringing aboard any traditional venture investors or taping off a corner of its Harleysville, Pa., offices so a…
Twitch acquires gaming database site IGDB to improve its search and discovery features – TechCrunch
Amazon-owned Twitch has made a small but strategic acquisition designed to improve its search capabilities and better direct viewers to exactly the right content. The company is acquiring IGDB, the Internet Games Database (no relation to Amazon’s IMDb), a website dedicated to combining all the relevant information about games into a comprehensive resource for gamers…
Facebook’s new policy Supreme Court could override Zuckerberg – TechCrunch
A real check to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s control is finally coming in the form of an 11 to 40-member Oversight Board that will review appeals to its policy decisions, like content takedowns, and make recommendations for changes. Today Facebook released the charter establishing the theoretically independent Oversight Board, with Zuckerberg explaining that when it…
The portrait of an avatar as a young artist – TechCrunch
LaTurbo was early to exploring these questions of identity and experimenting with telepresence. She has shape-shifted across media types, spending time in everything from AOL and chat rooms, to MMOs, virtual worlds and social media platforms. In this conversation she shares her thoughts on how social networks have breached our trust, why a breakup is likely,…
The benefits and challenges of scooter sharing and beyond
Micro-mobility solutions such as scooters, bike shares, and other vehicles have flooded our cities, but many companies face mounting criticism. Rather than profiting from the “build-break-build” ethos, micro-mobility companies are being forced to navigate, sometimes at great cost, complex public and private stakeholder relationships. Striking those ideal collaborations, including between private and public sector organizations,…
This young litigation finance startup just secured $100 million to chase cases it thinks will win – TechCrunch
If you haven’t heard much about litigation finance, that may change soon. The practice dates back decades, though it’s been picking up momentum since 2006, when Credit Suisse Securities founded a litigation risk strategies unit that it later spun off. What is litigation finance? In a nutshell, the idea is to fund plaintiffs and law…
IT firm manager arrested in massive Ecuador data breach case affecting 20M people
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Ecuador offiicals have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after a massive data breach exposed the personal information of more than 20 million individuals, including 6.7 million children. The 18GB cache of data was attributed to a leaky Elasticsearch server, but it has since been plugged. In response, local…
