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Exabeam becomes one of the first vendors to join a cybersecurty ecosystem emerging around the Snowflake cloud platform. https://bit.ly/36tA7lj

To ensure AI has a positive impact on society, we need to look beyond user experience to a new practice of 'citizen experience' design. https://bit.ly/36w4pDT

In the future, successful game tech companies will look less like Autodesk and more like Snowflake with a content focus. https://bit.ly/3r7T2Kb

The rollout will have a widespread impact on businesses and will affect the number of iOS devices available for personalized advertising. https://bit.ly/3ozmhDW

To adapt to new privacy laws, advertisers will need to develop new data-collection strategies and prioritize transparency. https://bit.ly/2NHJtDm

Enterprise mental health care platform Modern Health uses AWS to handle ever more complex and higher volumes of sensitive data. https://bit.ly/39tbhnw

With a new administration in the White House, we have the chance to finally fix privacy in America. Here's how. https://bit.ly/2YqaX2m

Classiq raises $10.5 million to advance development of quantum algorithms that can run on multiple quantum computing systems. https://bit.ly/2M9kVmy

Richard Bartle has his eye on the metaverse, and he hopes it will be a place where we can be our best selves. https://bit.ly/3pyzHBB

AppOnboard has raised $20 million for its game creation tool that doesn't require that users know how to program. https://bit.ly/39rDOtB

The World Economic Forum is launching the Global AI Action Alliance today with over 100 organizations participating. https://bit.ly/3cx46Nd

Cyberpunk 2077 introduced another take on virtual reality when it launched late last year. Braindancing (the downloading of data from an experience to view it through someone else)  saw players experience an event from another person’s point of view. It went deeper than what we experience in the real world with virtual reality headsets like […] https://bit.ly/3sYBYIx

Google spelled out what Apple's Identifier for Advertisers changes mean for itself as well as game and app developers. https://bit.ly/3iYZOPF

Ukko, a startup developing food allergy treatments using AI, has raised $40 million in a venture capital round. https://bit.ly/2M8q6TE

Major game events have played a significant role in creating excitement, even when the pandemic forced organizers to host events online. https://bit.ly/3qUe5jf

Xsolla is expanding its monetization help for developers with a commerce solution that takes mobile games beyond the app stores. https://bit.ly/2LWXjS3

Trinamix is introducing a 3D imaging solution that helps prevent fraud when someone tries to log into a system using facial recognition. https://bit.ly/3pnclid

Join this VB Live event to learn how open banking is fueling both opportunity for FIs and better financial outcomes for consumers. https://bit.ly/3sVkA7n

Reviewing large stacks of legal or financial documents can be a chore, but Contract Intelligence promises to cut analysis time by 80%. https://bit.ly/3iKx9xG

IMVU has relaunched as Together Labs and raised $35 million. The company is also launching WithMe to target user-generated content. https://bit.ly/3c45NBo

Wingcopter, a delivery drone manufacturer in Germany, has raised $22 million in venture capital to expand its health care operations. https://bit.ly/3obEPKl

My co-hort Jeff Grubb and I rank every game in the core Mario series. What does "core" mean? It's whatever we say it means. https://bit.ly/3sSwu1T

As cashierless technology becomes normal, it could be used problematically for purposes beyond payment, particularly shoplifting detection. https://bit.ly/2MglMRV

GUEST: PlayStation has continued its domination of gaming industry TV advertising into the new year, racking up over 425.7 million ad impressions from mid-December to mid-January — 44% of the industry’s total. Overall, 16 brands aired 51 spots more than 4,000 times during our measurement window, resulting in 962.7 million TV ad impressions. Once again, sports […] https://bit.ly/3ochCYC

Facebook, New York University, and Stanford researchers propose Porcupine, a program that encrypts code with high efficiency. https://bit.ly/3sRbdFS

Ernest Cline's Ready Player Two has a new vision for the metaverse and the latest example of science fiction and reality intertwining. https://bit.ly/3sO2fJf

Learn how taking your mobile game to new platforms can help you create community, improve discoverability, scale, and more. https://bit.ly/2LWDom3

Resident Evil: Village is heading to PC and consoles on May 7. Publisher Capcom also revealed for the first time that it will release the survival-horror adventure for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in addition to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. This game picks up the story of Resident Evil VII, with players once again […] https://bit.ly/3p9Uyea

Valtix has raised $12.5 million in venture capital from Cisco Investments, The Syndicate Group, and venture firm Northgate Capital. https://bit.ly/2KC2TIP

TripActions, a business travel and expense management platform that offers real-time data and insights, has raised $155 million. https://bit.ly/3oerO2Z

Hitman 3 is having some day-one issues with its data-transfer tool. This is preventing fans from continuing their progression. https://bit.ly/3bX3K1M

AlphaICs has raised $8 million in funding for artificial intelligence processors for edge computing applications such as cars and wearables. https://bit.ly/3sLAscr

Donald Trump has given a full pardon to Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer who stole trade secret on self-driving cars. https://bit.ly/3p3PKXX

Blizzard announced today that a new mini-set of 35 cards, called Darkmoon Races, is coming to Hearthstone on January. https://bit.ly/39GLaYY

Google's new Product Discovery Solutions for Retail aims to address ecommerce challenges during the pandemic with AI and machine learning. https://bit.ly/39I1OYm

StackPulse, an automated incident response platform aimed at site reliability engineers, emerges from stealth with $28 million in funding. https://bit.ly/3p04s28

Researchers developed an AI framework that can predict the motion of objects from visual and tactile data. https://bit.ly/2LKwi42

Idera, which develops a range of SQL database tools, has acquired Apilayer, an Austrian startup that develops cloud-based API products. https://bit.ly/2XRH2Qv

The new company is the result of a merger between RichRelevance and Manthan Software, giving retailers real-time data analyisis. https://bit.ly/3irVlEI

Savage Game Studios has raised $4.4 million to create two game studios in Helsinki and Berlin. The company is making a mobile game shooter. https://bit.ly/39GvR2G

Games grew 19% to $174.9 billion in 2020. Will it keep going? We're going to study that at our upcoming game conference, Driving Game Growth. https://bit.ly/3nTLWa4

We had so much fun making a tier list of Nintendo's consoles last week that we are back at it again with a topic that's a bit more silly. https://bit.ly/2XNuFFh

Incoming White House science and technology leader Dr. Alondra Nelson addressed the relationship between AI development an inclusion. https://bit.ly/3nOUD5O

DALL-E brings AI one step closer to human-like creativity, and the images it generates could seed all kinds of new ideas. https://bit.ly/35MDbc1

Greenpark Sports is a new community that is mixing sports like basketball with video games like League of Legends. https://bit.ly/3qkR5cU

With Alexa Custom Assistant, Amazon looks to woo brands with tools that enable them to create their own bespoke intelligent assistants. https://bit.ly/38M1Wab

Oqton, a startup developing an operating system that integrates engineering software with manufacturing hardware, has raised $40 million. https://bit.ly/3bIdg8Q

Microsoft said it has learned a lot from the open source realm, adding that it is now the "accepted model" for cross-company collaboration. https://bit.ly/3oO5fmu

Swimm helps engineering teams share knowledge and understand other people's code by synchronizing codebases to smart documents. https://bit.ly/2LQMSic

DJI is building an engineering team to work on self-driving car technologies, according to job posts and people familiar with the matter. https://bit.ly/35BPRlK