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Why avatar-based social gaming app Rec Room doesn’t consider itself a ‘metaverse’ company

GeekWire

Almost two years after officially attaining “unicorn” status , Seattle startup Rec Room continues to expand the audience for its eponymous flagship app Rec Room , with new physical gift cards, a virtual haunted house, a brand crossover with Mattel’s Masters of the Universe , and perhaps most importantly, the possibility of feet.

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

of Commerce will lead a delegation of companies to the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking place in Las Vegas next Tuesday through Thursday. The delegation of six companies includes robotic barista maker Artly — a Seattle-based startup founded in 2020 in a bid to use tech to make the perfect cup of coffee — and others.

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Virtual graduation: Tech tools help Univ. of Washington host first-ever remote ceremony

GeekWire

University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce gives a commencement speech at the UW’s first-ever virtual ceremony, with students and families watching via livestream. (UW It gathered nearly 7,000 photos of each graduate and applied graphics tricks to show the students with virtual caps in a Star Wars scrolling-type fashion.

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Shut out of bars by the pandemic, Seattle trivia startup Sporcle finds success with games on Zoom

GeekWire

A Zoom screen grab of Sporcle Virtual Trivia participants. Here’s a trivia question for you: In what year did Seattle startup Sporcle , a trivia games company, figure out that it could survive and thrive by taking a large chunk of its business online? Sporcle Image). ” Sporcle, which is No. billion plays since 2007.

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GeekWire 200 update: Top Pacific Northwest tech startups hold their ground atop the list

GeekWire

Companies such as Big Fish Games, Cheezburger Network, and Tableau Software once sat atop the GeekWire 200 , our ranking of the Pacific Northwest’s privately-held tech startups. But both of those growing companies will soon graduate, too — Auth0’s acquisition by Okta is set to finalize this year, and Rover is going public via a SPAC.

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What is synthetic data? Generated data to help your AI strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Long tail’ use cases: As AI becomes ubiquitous in organizations, companies are running out of use cases where the required training data is plentiful and easily available. To simulate the future: When fashions change, historic data might become obsolete overnight. This can slow down the development of new AI models.

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Is Apple’s weird headset the future?

Vox

Every big, new Apple Product Launch follows a template, one the company pioneered and perfected with the iPhone and then the iPad. And in the meantime, Apple will very much remain the company that sells iPhones, which is a very good business to be in. And, more importantly, what does Apple expect us to do once the company announces it?

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