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Noice raises $5M for ‘playful’ social platform for gamers

Venture Beast

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Noice has raised $5 million for what the startup is teasing as a “playful” social platform for gamers.

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Instagram may soon ask users to verify themselves with video selfies

The Verge

Instagram is asking some users to provide a video selfie showing multiple angles of their face to verify that they’re a real person, according to screenshots posted to Twitter by social media consultant Matt Navarra. Multiple users have reported being asked to take a video selfie to verify their existing accounts.

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An interactive Doja Cat music video can introduce you to programming

The Verge

The Doja Cat codable music video. Girls Who Code, the nonprofit organization that aims to get more women and girls interested in the field of computer science, has debuted what it calls the “first ever” codable music video. HUGE NEWS: We just made the first ever codable music video with @dojacat. Photo by Girls Who Code.

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Spotify becomes latest to experiment with a TikTok-style video feed

The Verge

Spotify is testing a new TikTok-style video feed in its beta iOS app that shows fullscreen video clips as songs are played, TechCrunch reports. The feature was first spotted by Chris Messina , who posted a video of the feed in action. NewSpotify pic.twitter.com/hpOEZ8v9bl — Messina.eth (@chrismessina) November 24, 2021.

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Reality check: Microsoft, David Bowie, Bill Gates, and a creepy video game called ‘Omikron’

GeekWire

Suggesting that Bill Gates had anything to do with it is like calling Apple CEO Tim Cook the mastermind behind Facebook because the social network runs on iPhone. I’ll just leave this nice little video game. Omicron #videogame #davidbowie #1999 pic.twitter.com/MyvOHoMbE4 — Gracie Chameleon (@cheli23) November 30, 2021.

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Prescription video game company goes public via SPAC

The Verge

Akili Interactive’s first product is a video game for ADHD. Akili Interactive, the company behind the first video game to get approved as a medical treatment, announced today that it will go public through a merger with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp, which is run by former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya.

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That’s a bomb sweater: Microsoft’s ‘Minesweeper’ soft-wear is a throwback to vintage video game

GeekWire

Just in time for the 2021 holidays, Microsoft is releasing an ugly sweater that throws the style clock back to 1990. The video game, which involves uncovering squares on a grid and avoiding getting blown up by mines, was first released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 in 1990 and included in the standard install of Windows 3.1

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