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Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B valuation

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Rec Room is a free app described as a “universally accessible online community,” where users create a cartoony virtual avatar to participate in a variety of activities, many of which were designed by the application’s community. ” The metaverse’s been here since 2016, and it doesn’t have arms or legs. Rec Room Image).

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

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“Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016. “In

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

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.” How it works: Rec Room is a free download which lets players use a collection of tools to make virtual rooms, objects, and playable games, such as paintball and laser tag, with a vast amount of community-created content that’s growing all the time. But less than half of its users are now using VR. The company is not yet profitable.

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

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After we opened the museum, the director and curatorial staff were talking about how to how to reach even more people who wouldn’t be able to come to the museum and experience it,” says Jill Roberts, program manager of the Searchable Museum at the Office of Digital Strategy and Engagement (ODSE).

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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Digital transformation: nei progetti a tutto campo la chiave è il change management

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“Il digitale è riconosciuto come forte leva di business”, conferma Alessandra Luksch, Direttore dell’Osservatorio Digital Transformation Academy e dell’Osservatorio Startup Thinking del Politecnico di Milano, che dal 2016 mappa i trend della spesa ICT delle organizzazioni in Italia.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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Last year, Saykara unveiled a new skill for its virtual assistant , called Kara, that documents an entire doctor-patient conversation without interruption. DeLorenzo joined Amazon in May 2016 as the new head of sports for Amazon Video. The aerospace giant’s former HR leader Heidi Capozzi departed in April. .