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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

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Rec Room , the virtual reality community and gaming platform, a mainstay of VR and mixed reality platforms including the Meta Quest and, more recently, the Apple Vision Pro. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

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Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.

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Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon; Tomo adds CMO; Gopuff taps more Seattle talent

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The following month the company launched an in-app marijuana ordering option after Apple made changes to App Store rules. Scener co-founder Joe Braidwood departed the virtual watch party platform to join San Diego-based Vektor Medical. Kimberly Boler, also based in New York, recently joined Leafly as general counsel. Joe Braidwood.

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How this Future For Us co-founder landed a grant from Serena Williams, and what?s happening next

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This Friday, May 22, Future For Us has turned its second annual conference into a remote event rebranded as Virtual Assembly. A benefit to taking their message virtual is the opportunity to further expand their geographic reach. “We Computer types: Apple Macbook Pro. How do you make time for family?

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GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power virtual event

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We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. billion; Xevo acquired by Lear for $320 million; Xnor AI acquired by Apple. Winners of the 2020 GeekWire Awards make their acceptance speeches on the live-streamed event.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

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It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s a joke.

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The next privacy crisis

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Apple CEO Tim Cook called AR “a big idea, like the smartphone.” When players logged on to catch virtual monsters, many discovered parts of their neighborhoods they’d never thought to visit. They forged in-person connections by sharing virtual experiences, but those connections could also allow for real-world harassment.

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