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

GeekWire

We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online. Gaming company or social company? I think in a lot of ways gaming is the new social.”

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Pedal to the metaverse: This Seattle techie found real-world pain driving on a simulated racetrack

GeekWire

.” Chang’s strained back seems like a far cry from the subjects in those “fail videos” which are all over YouTube and social media feeds. With interest in virtual reality devices growing, “so is their reputation for being a source of pain and embarrassment,” the Journal said.

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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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Inside Facebook’s struggle to keep young people

The Verge

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. If it doesn’t correct course, the 17-year-old social network could, for the first time, lose out on an entire generation.

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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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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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The Verge’s Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2021

The Verge

It’s been a very hard year for us all — but especially for moms, who have had to deal with not only the worry about the pandemic itself, but its effect on their work schedules, their kids’ schooling and socialization, and all of the other issues that have come up over the past year. 10 at VELLABOX. Lovepop Mother’s Day card. 13 at LOVEPOP. $13