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

GeekWire

On a video call from the hospital where he and his wife welcomed a baby boy over the weekend, CEO and co-founder Nick Fajt was excited about the 5-year-old startup he’s been raising into a unicorn in Seattle, where a majority of top tech companies operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. Gaming company or social company?

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

From games to crypto mining to AI In 1993, long before uncanny AI-generated art and amusing AI chatbot convos took over our social media feeds, three Silicon Valley electrical engineers launched a startup that would focus on an exciting, fast-growing segment of personal computing: video games.

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Tech Moves: Hiya adds startup vets; Bellevue College taps former governor as interim president; and more

GeekWire

3D content platform Unity Technologies appointed Scott Pitasky as chief people officer. Former Bellevue College President Jerry Weber was relieved of his duties in early March following a decision to alter a mural on campus depicting Japanese internment, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal. LinkedIn Photos). Snohomish, Wash.-based

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KITABOO partners with Amazon Polly for creating interactive children’s eBooks

Kitaboo

You can also create speech-enabled interactive eBooks in standard formats like MP3 and OGG, and make them available locally with apps, from the cloud, or devices for offline listening. KITABOO also offers an intuitive interface, an offline reader, book download capabilities, annotation tools, and search and social learning.

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Beyond Books: The Evolving Landscape of Academic Achievement in Publishing

Kitaboo

Around 46,736 academic journals are published worldwide every year. The number of academic journals published per year has grown 28.7% Historically, academic achievement in publishing was largely gauged by the prestige of the journals where research was published. over the last 10 years.

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Top Technology News for 15 June 2016

CTOvision

Autodesk looks to future with investments in 3D robotic drones and IoT as a service. Social Security wants to completely start over - FCW.com. US Accuses Chinese Software Developer of Stealing Source Code - Wall Street Journal. Scientists find mirror molecules in interstellar cloud. A chiral link to life’s origins?

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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