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Facebook claims its tool to combat AI bias -- Fairness Flow -- is being used across the company. But experts say it's likely insufficient. https://bit.ly/3m6WiEx

Windfall, a startup developing a data science platform for nonprofits, has raised $21 million in venture capital. https://bit.ly/3cDT3kR

We're not ranking the games. Instead, we're looking at some titles of Kingdom Hearts, a franchise known for absurd names. https://bit.ly/3wgTvxh

Graffiti Games has raised $1.5 million for indie game publishing. The money will help it launch titles such as Blue Fire. https://bit.ly/3rCob8k

Sandbox & Co. has acquired children's game and entertainment (edutainment) company Fingerprint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. https://bit.ly/3u5zYxM

According to Canalys, companies are spending record sums on cybersecurity, and yet the number of successful attacks is higher than ever. https://bit.ly/3m1K14f

Facebook plans two new undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America in a project with Google. https://bit.ly/3w80GHZ

Atari is cashing in on the NFT craze with the sale of the Atari Capsule Collection of Pong and Centipede NFTs. https://bit.ly/31wF61z

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful type of AI technology that can learn strategies to optimally control large, complex systems. https://bit.ly/2P8o5bK

Industry clouds are collections of cloud services, tools, and applications optimized for the most important use cases in a specific industry. https://bit.ly/2QB4b9p

Magic: Legends and Black Legend are disappointing so far, but Bravely Default II saves The D20 Beat's day. https://bit.ly/3rpuI6s

DataOps would allow various teams handling data to collaborate better with the team deploying data into applications. https://bit.ly/3u7aVKV

A company that is looking to explore data streaming capabilities does not need to go "all-in." In fact, it’s best if you don’t. https://bit.ly/3rqB8SJ

Where are RPGs heading in 2021 and beyond? In this first in a series of interviews, GamesBeat talks to Nexon about what it sees ahead. https://bit.ly/2PbZRgC

Today's ID@Xbox showcase emphasized Game Pass with news that 20 more games on coming to the service in the near future. https://bit.ly/3smMDMl

Yandex plans to expand its autonomous delivery service to the U.S. and elsewhere. Here's how it hopes to accomplish this. https://bit.ly/3fjiVE7

At a time when U.S. agencies and companies are fighting major hacking campaigns, a different kind of cyber threat is reemerging. https://bit.ly/31ms3zP

One of the big issues that exists within AI generally, but is particularly acute in health care settings, is the issue of transparency. https://bit.ly/39csr8k

Immutable X, a platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), is adding four major games from Japanese developers to its blockchain-based platform. https://bit.ly/2PugZy1

Gaming Community Network (GCN) and Van Wagner have teamed up to create national collegiate esports tournaments across multiple games. https://bit.ly/3tVbYxa

Enterprise leaders rated business intelligence (BI) applications on security, analytics, and product strategy in a SoftwareReviews survey. https://bit.ly/2Pqbbp4

Anthony Castoro, Jace Hall, and Rick Fox have raised $7.5 million for the HiDef game studio to make metaverse games. https://bit.ly/3d7tYO2

AnyRoad, a platform that helps brands manage and measure customer experiences, has raised $10 million in a fresh round of financing.  https://bit.ly/3civden

Helpshift has teamed up with Unity and Discord to provide smaller game developers and publishers with more automated tech support. https://bit.ly/3vWgQUP

Google Cloud announced the Network Connectivity Center to integrate management of on-premise IT, as well as cloud-based services. https://bit.ly/2PmhGsU

75F offers an internet of things-based system that aims to reduce buildings' energy costs by 50%. https://bit.ly/2PgR6S6

Discord is going through a sales process now that could result in a purchase of the platform for more than $10 billion. https://bit.ly/3vTGLw7

Optimizely acquires Zaius to gain a customer data platform that will drive personalization of digital business processes. https://bit.ly/3vPAdyJ

Flex Logix, a startup developing AI accelerator hardware, has raised $55 million to bring its chips to market. https://bit.ly/395ggu0

Celonis CEO Alexander Rinker says the low-code movement is set to help process mining overtake robotic process automation (RPA). https://bit.ly/3r23h2o

A total of 65 investors with £589 million, or $816 million, to invest in game startups are showing up this week at the Game Finance Market. https://bit.ly/3vPCGcC

The Verbeeg Jamboree shows how Tuque Games is putting their own stamp on Dungeons & Dragons with Dark Alliance. https://bit.ly/3s7NVup

GUEST: AI is facing several critical challenges. Not only does it need huge amounts of data to deliver accurate results, but it also needs to be able to ensure that data isn’t biased, and it needs to comply with increasingly restrictive data privacy regulations. We have seen several solutions proposed over the last couple of years […] https://bit.ly/3r0Kch7

Atlus announced today that Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster will launch on May 25 (or May 21, if you're willing to spend). https://bit.ly/3f0QwTs

RPA is having a watershed moment, but certain security challenges around the technology remain unaddressed. https://bit.ly/38ZndwO

The software industry has been successful in deploying AI in production, but hardware is still in its infancy in terms of AI productization. https://bit.ly/3r4sMQH

Amazon today launched S3 Object Lambda, a new service that helps enterprises to transform data as it's being served across applications. https://bit.ly/3r4qxwF

Hitman Sniper Assassins is a new followup to the Hitman Sniper game from the studio that made Lara Croft Go. https://bit.ly/3lvT1hw

Sony revealed the controllers today for PlayStation 5's upcoming VR device (which still does not have an official name). https://bit.ly/3cQoJT3

The White House task force looking into the recent hack of Microsoft Exchange met this week with representatives from the private sector. https://bit.ly/30URBnp

Lego Brand Group said it has hired former Spotify executive Cecilia Qvist to run its venture capital arm, Lego Ventures. https://bit.ly/2OLv367

A new study shows that the anonymized public X-ray datasets used to train AI algorithms can reveal patient identities. https://bit.ly/3rWsFYt

Incredibuild, a company developing grid computing software, raised $140 million in venture capital funding. https://bit.ly/3bVomHx

Torch.AI, a startup developing a platform to normalize and analyze disparate data, has raised $30 million in venture funding. https://bit.ly/3vBFmKI

Intel's new Rocket Lake-S parts may compete well in gaming even with fewer cores thanks to a new architecture and efficiency improvements. https://bit.ly/3qU3nZC

Applied Materials has launched a new generation of optical semiconductor wafer inspection machines that incorporate AI. https://bit.ly/3ll21Ge

Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of COVID-19 relief funds destined for U.S. cybersecurity defenders, angering some lawmakers. https://bit.ly/2P2BLEr

Companies have lifted hiring freezes and they’re recruiting again -- here are some of the businesses looking for fantastic talent. https://bit.ly/3tjngLx

Informatica allies with Nvidia to extend serverless computing framework for processing large amounts of data to GPUs. https://bit.ly/3ctXJZc

DeepSee.ai, an enterprise workflow automation platform, raised $22.6 million in venture capital financing. https://bit.ly/3qXHclH