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Flashback: Microsoft’s ‘Skinput’ research project in 2010 foreshadowed an AI gadget of 2023

GeekWire

“Skinput,” from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, circa 2010. As shown in the video below, from 2010, Skinput was a research project that projected light onto a user’s skin, using sensors to distinguish among the waves that run through the arm or hand to detect different inputs.

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Carbon Robotics raises additional $8M as maker of AI-powered weed zapper eyes new ag-tech product

GeekWire

“As an AI robotics company, we’re big believers in the power of software and hardware together to create value.” billion in 2010 and spent time at Uber and Facebook before embarking on another entrepreneurial journey.

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US video game spending hit a 10-year high in June

The Verge

Video game spending in the US reached its highest point since 2010, according to a new NPD Group report , with sales through June reaching $6.6 billion on hardware, software, and accessories. US NPD VG - Year-to-date tracked spending across Video Game hardware, software, accessories and game cards reached $6.6

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Intel divests McAfee after rough marriage, will now secure hardware

Network World

The chip maker will focus internal operations on hardware-level security. billion to acquire McAfee in 2010, which was a head-scratcher at the time. McAfee will now again become a standalone security company, but Intel will retain a minority 49 percent stake. For Intel, dumping majority ownership in McAfee amounts to a loss.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. The 2010s: Autonomy’s unravelling September 2010: Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is named CEO of HP.

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Pain points: Seattle-area dental diagnostics company gets FDA approval for tooth-tapping tech

GeekWire

The company is developing a hardware tool called InnerView that lightly taps a tooth to spot micro-movements. The co-founders appointed dental hardware executive Robert Hayman to lead the company as CEO and chairman. It was acquired by Philips in 2010.

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

For the study’s sake, “classic” was defined as any video game released before 2010, for any platform, as per the gaming database maintained at MobyGames. 2010 also happens to mark the point when the video game market began to shift from largely revolving around physical media to digital distribution via virtual storefronts like Steam.

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