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Invisibly calls for a "data dividend," which lets users collect points by giving Invisibly access to their web usage. https://bit.ly/3lfyAY7

This finding indicates the difficulty and complexity of understanding key cloud native security risks, along with how to counteract them. https://bit.ly/3xhhdJ0

Gamification will prove to be the lever for the movie industry’s adoption of blockchain, further cementing the bond between film and gaming. https://bit.ly/3zTpBQA

With its broad access to data, AI can create a personalized customer experience at a much greater scale than that of a human sales team. https://bit.ly/2VpDoPG

Maliyo Games has launched the #GameUp Bootcamp with Google to train game developers in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. https://bit.ly/3BWb2NW

Facebook today open-sourced Droidlet, a platform for building robots that leverage natural language processing and computer vision. https://bit.ly/3rKuB7h

Localization is already a hard job. Now imagine doing it for a text-heavy game set around 1900 featuring two distinct cultures. https://bit.ly/3rJMsek

Diginex's business model is SAAS that incorporates some of the latest technologies, like a blockchain and some machine learning models. https://bit.ly/3j6KcdA

Hundreds of Activision Blizzard employees walked out today to protest the its initially harsh response to allegations of sex discrimination. https://bit.ly/2TGeDhQ

That's No Moon Entertainment has raised more than $100 million in investment from CrossFire creator Smilegate. https://bit.ly/3rEhpAT

LogicGate, a provider of software-as-a-service solutions for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management, raised $113 million. https://bit.ly/3zHxDfi

CEOs receive 57 phishing emails a year, but other C-suites and non-executives like sales and IT employees are getting hit just as hard. https://bit.ly/3f75Htv

InVia Robotics, which is developing a subscription-based warehouse automation platform, has raised $30 million in funding. https://bit.ly/3zHjsqv

Password management platform 1Password has raised $100 million in an Accel-led round of funding at a $2 billion valuation. https://bit.ly/3y8hvmP

Element, the company behind an end-to-end encrypted team messaging app powered by the Matrix protocol, has raised $30 million. https://bit.ly/3l0Whn1

Splitgate got off to a hot start on consoles, and now developer 1047 Games is raising money to help it scale up its servers. https://bit.ly/3BO8CRE

The first of the two Great Ace Attorney games would sit rather low on my personal rankings for the series. https://bit.ly/3eXeii2

Lacuna enables cities to iterate and experiment with digital twins as dynamic policy enforcement mechanisms to better manage traffic flow. https://bit.ly/3750VIx

Ninjala has had more than 7 million downloads in the past year. GungHo Entertainment is pushing to make it bigger with live operations. https://bit.ly/3kWeUsq

The most successful forms of mobile ad formats have their roots in what advertisers have learned in the past, present, and future of mobile. https://bit.ly/3BOGuhc

Ex-Blizzard president Mike Morhaime issued an apology to the women of Blizzard who have suffered alleged sexual discrimination https://bit.ly/3x9DUPm

Cloud-native RPA architecture is driving key innovations in the public space while Automation Anywhere takes the RPA world by storm. https://bit.ly/3y6hDTw

Matt Baker, senior vice president of strategy and planning for the Dell EMC, explains why all workloads are not heading into the cloud. https://bit.ly/3y23VBh

The data analytics landscape is littered data stores (search, graph, columnar, row) and processing and storage projects. It can be confusing. https://bit.ly/3BxNXAZ

Alphabet has spun out a new independent company called Intrinsic to "unlock the creative and economic potential" of industrial robotics. https://bit.ly/2TxAcRL

Airbnb CTO talks about cutting-edge technologies, graph neural networks, and innovation in AI during Transform 2021. https://bit.ly/3BzR7UM

Electronic Arts announced during today's EA Play event that Lost in Random is launching on September 10 for consoles and PC. https://bit.ly/3eMyCCM

The brand new Apex Legends: Emergence is coming from Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts on August 3. https://bit.ly/2WcIy2b

Open source API and identity access management platform Gravitee has raised $11 million in its first round of funding. https://bit.ly/2W8T4Yd

Counter-Strike is getting an art contest that is worth $1 million. Valve is using this promotion to encourage support for Steam Workshop. https://bit.ly/3f1D3dl

Epic Games has acquired the 3D content marketplace Sketchfab, as it needs a ton of art to fill up the metaverse. https://bit.ly/3kWkURZ

Sentiment analysis allows customer service reps to determine the emotional state and intent of customers, creating a tailored experience. https://bit.ly/3zmcUgK

Ubisoft released its earnings report for the quarter ending on June 30, reporting $383.82 million (€326 million) in net bookings. https://bit.ly/2UXyQQw

Titan has raised $58 million to build an investment management platform to take on the likes of Fidelity and other traditional funds. https://bit.ly/2V56vIg

OpenSea raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion value from A16z to scale its open nonfungible tokens marketplace. https://bit.ly/2Ut1BVm

Ubisoft has announced Tom Clancy's XDefiant today, a new free-to-play shooter. https://bit.ly/3ikDsbi

The procedural road adventure game Road 96 will debut on August 16 on multiple stores on the PC and the Nintendo Switch. https://bit.ly/2TnyUJ1

Cybersecurity is a red-hot sector, and venture capital firms are looking at the market and trying to predict what's in store for the future. https://bit.ly/3wRQRgp

CircleCI's Rob Zuber discusses why he goes beyond technology metrics to include Velocity, Morale, and Business metrics for his engineers. https://bit.ly/3Bbpr8J

The shortcomings of natural language understanding can make or break your AI and neural machine learning strategy. Here's how to deal. https://bit.ly/3rlqn60

Is this the end of water-cooler talk? Five ways organizations can preserve critical elements of office culture post-pandemic. https://bit.ly/3zbmS4w

Hungryroot uses AI-powered grocery delivery, matching consumer preferences to the weekly boxes they receive through an AI-powered algorithm. https://bit.ly/3etPwWN

The pandemic -- and its impacts on workers and the supply chain -- has pushed farmers to invest in automation. https://bit.ly/3euFTqI

OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team in what might be a reflection of economic and commercial realities. https://bit.ly/3euMuBI

Ubisoft announced today in separate blog posts that Riders Republic and Rainbow Six: Extraction are delayed. https://bit.ly/3epnXxW

Josh Shen is helping the State Department understand games and create programs that use citizen diplomats to spread the word on gaming. https://bit.ly/3ksMgi4

Transformers, a major innovation in AI and machine learning, have practical real-world applications -- and implications. https://bit.ly/3wDOspD

In a new study, researchers demonstrate a flaw in neural machine translation systems that can prompt them to generate toxic outputs. https://bit.ly/3eo8JJu

Learn how benefits directly impact employee happiness, and offer a powerful ROI, in this free VB Live event. https://bit.ly/3ieje3c

IBM chief data scientist John Thomas makes the case for building AI factories to increase adoption of best data science practices at scale. https://bit.ly/3B8mANU