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It will likely take at least 18-24 months to stabilize the supply chain. Until then, many companies will be affected (some more, some less). https://bit.ly/3nDTfEl

The Call of Duty Endowment unveiled its #CODEMedicalHeroes campaign to raise $3 Million to employ veterans in high-paying jobs. https://bit.ly/3nAOgo0

Global cloud services infrastructure spending grew to $41.8 billion in Q1 2020, a 35% year-on-year (YoY) rise. https://bit.ly/3xFHJgG

At GamesBeat Summit 2021, Iron Galaxy co-CEOs Chelsea Blasko and Adam Boyes talk about how they've created a culture of anti-crunch at the studio. https://bit.ly/3e3Cuzq

Geoff Keighley talks with Electronic Arts studios chief Laura Miele about how making games is hard and it keeps changing. https://bit.ly/3eG6vEC

Returnal is a good game that is held back by pacing issues due to a lack of smaller goals that break up its roguelite structure. https://bit.ly/3u4Jamx

Bobby Kotick reflects on running Activision Blizzard, whic is valued at $70.9 billion and has more than 10,000 employees. https://bit.ly/3ntzi38

Jira Work Management, a new Atlassian product built specifically for enterprise teams, is now generally available. https://bit.ly/3vsnXTG

Akeyless, a secrets management and authentication platform, recently raised $14 million in a series A funding round. https://bit.ly/3eCgZEV

Pricefx launched market simulation, which leverages AI to predict consumer behavior and more in response to product price changes. https://bit.ly/3e1S66J

Amazon made its DeepRacer available in open source, enabling developers to custom-program remote-controlled cars. https://bit.ly/3dWWSSF

SaaS data backup service Rewind has extend support to Trello, with plans to include Jira, GitLab, Xero, Bitbucket, and Zendesk in the future. https://bit.ly/3vk06Wn

Respawn and Oculus Studios won an Oscar for the best documentary short subject film Colette. The win is a victory for VR. https://bit.ly/32Q19kx

Prescient Devices, a startup creating an IoT development platform, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. https://bit.ly/3tUy4Aq

Cybersecurity analytics company ThetaRay announced that its AI-based anti-money laundering (AML) analytics will be available in the cloud. https://bit.ly/32LADca

Attackers stole credentials from an organization in an attack targeting the Pulse Secure VPN appliance and the SolarWinds Orion platform. https://bit.ly/3eBm5S2

There is a remarkably close affinity between low-code/no-code and business process management. https://bit.ly/3vjQr28

Thistle Technologies gets $2.5 million seed funding to help IoT vendors develop ways to securely and easily update their connected devices. https://bit.ly/2QtjiSJ

JavaScript for programming machine learning offers several advantages over Python and R, namely privacy, speed, and staying on the device. https://bit.ly/2S562Et

Malicious bots make up 25% of all web traffic are used in content scraping, account takeover, and denial-of-service attacks, said Imperva. https://bit.ly/32LIRRq

This week, Europe released its proposal for regulating AI. US regulators and industry leaders must make the next move. https://bit.ly/3ay2AbO

Taiwan's chip companies are ramping up to fill the global chip shortage, and to address the high demand for buying and selling bitcoins. https://bit.ly/3awhtew

Unsupervised, a company developing a platform that leverages self-supervised machine learning to spot trends, raised $35 million. https://bit.ly/3vfXZml

Call of Duty: Warzone is getting a new but familiar map. Now players can fight in the battle royale on Verdansk in 1984. https://bit.ly/3nkNNGA

Comcast has demonstrated internet speeds greater than 4 gigabits per second (Gbps) in both directions using a Broadcom chip. https://bit.ly/3elsdh6

Electronic Arts announced today that it has partnered with Industrial Toys to make a new Battlefield game for mobile devices in 2022. https://bit.ly/2QIKFbb

Sony's answer to Xbox Game Pass may be a ... video pass? Here's how the company may use its entertainment strength to compete. https://bit.ly/2QN09Lr

Cyrebro, a cloud-based security operations center (SOC), today announced it has raised $15 million in a venture equity round. https://bit.ly/2QLZQAx

CRM sales platform Pipedrive has launched new smart documentation features designed to automate and expedite sales deals. https://bit.ly/3v6ui7a

Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Warzone has crossed into new territory with 100 million downloads in the past year.  https://bit.ly/2Pb4Xd4

Synthesia, a startup developing AI that can generate videos of avatars for marketing purposes, has raised $12.5 million. https://bit.ly/3x9odZB

Pragma has raised $12 million to build a backend-as-a-service for game studios so they can focus on making games. https://bit.ly/32xxUmo

Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops -- Cold War will get new Season Three content on April 22. https://bit.ly/3dvgi0I

Zoom has announced a new $100 million venture fund designed to "stimulate growth" of its fledgling ecosystem of third-party app integrations. https://bit.ly/3xaCghB

Affogata, a company developing a platform to help brands manage their online reputations, has raised $5.5 million in funding. https://bit.ly/3sBauqS

The new Stretch robot from Boston Dynamics doesn't do backflips or dance, but it may become the company's most successful commercial product. https://bit.ly/32u0165

GameRefinery analyzed the top 200 grossing iOS games in the U.S. and China to learn the best ways to monetize on mobile. https://bit.ly/3txcNwp

Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance signals the tech giant's AI strategy in Azure, self-driving cars, and other products beyond health care AI. https://bit.ly/3v0XUTv

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke with the press during GTC 21 about everything from the Grace AI CPU to the Omniverse. https://bit.ly/3n3ROPy

Secure Access Service Edge is less than two years old but is already moving the needle when it comes to forging a new market. https://bit.ly/32BlyKh

I’ve been spending a lot of time enjoying the Sega Genesis during 2021. That includes revisiting one of my favorite games from my childhood, 1991’s QuackShot. Sega created QuackShot as something of a follow-up to Castle of Illusion. But while Castle of Illusion stars Mickey Mouse, QuackShot is a Donald Duck joint. It’s also a […] https://bit.ly/3dpXAI4

Harness announced new integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to ease multicloud software deployments and track cloud costs. https://bit.ly/3e3jXC8

Jeff Grubb and I decided to watch this event again, almost 13 years after it first aired, and try make sense of Nintendo's strategy. https://bit.ly/3mTu0xt

By this time next year, hundreds of automated trucks powered by PlusDrive will be on the road, hauling commercial cargo. https://bit.ly/2PX9OPv

Bigeye, a startup providing data quality monitoring solutions, has raised $17 million in venture capital funding. https://bit.ly/3e0I8B8

Learn about what makes a successful company culture and how to strengthen your culture to align with your organization’s values and goals. https://bit.ly/2Q94oRj

The USC Games Expo will debut more than 70 student-made games on May 15 in a livestreamed online-only event at noon Pacific time. https://bit.ly/3sj9SpF

Sales in cloud and digital transformation were the key drivers behind SAP's "stellar" first-quarter results this year. https://bit.ly/3acCB9v

Touchcast is using Nvidia's Maxine to add AI to video conferencing, such as curating content by themes and using mixed reality sets. https://bit.ly/3seC9h7

Data sharing is only going to become more powerful, and the data is only going to become richer, with higher fidelity. Learn how. https://bit.ly/2OJDr63