Sat.Mar 25, 2023

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Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and other tabletop games help youth build social skills?

GeekWire

Seattle-based Game to Grow released its simple, therapeutic tabletop game Critical Core in October. (Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills.

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Arm wants to improve profitability, proposes big changes to pricing model

TechSpot

British chip designer Arm has put forth a proposal that modifies how they charge for chip licensing, according to a report by Financial Times. With their current model, Arm charges royalties of 1-2% based on the value of the chip, says Sravan Kundojjala, an analyst at TechInsights.

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GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft, OpenAI, and the AI opportunity for startups, with Neo CEO Ali Partovi

GeekWire

Neo’s diverse team of employees and mentors has impacted its startup accelerator and venture portfolio, with 46% of its capital backing startups led by women or members of underrepresented groups. (Neo Photo) This week on the GeekWire Podcast : what AI means for startups. We’re joined by Ali Partovi , a technology investor, entrepreneur, and mentor who is the CEO of Neo , a startup accelerator, mentorship community, and venture firm.

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Tech community mourns the loss of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore

TechSpot

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Intel announced Moore's death following his peaceful passing at his home in Hawaii. He is survived by his wife, Betty, his sons Kenneth and Steven, and four grandchildren.

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Rethinking Supply Chains for Greater Efficiency, Resiliency, and Sustainability

Supply Chains have 3 key priorities: building resiliency, reducing costs and driving ESG performance. Read the new GEP-sponsored report by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services for strategies and digital solutions to achieve these goals.

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Utah’s social media for kids law could be coming to a state near you

Vox

Utah’s kids will have a very different social media experience next year. It might not be a better one. | Georgijevic/Getty Images Utah’s strict new social media laws have some scary implications for the whole country. If everything goes according to the government of Utah’s plan, around this time next year, there will be some big changes on social media platforms for the state’s residents.

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Nvidia GeForce users can now encode more simultaneous streams

TechSpot

Nvidia quietly softened the limits on simultaneous video encoding streams for its consumer graphics cards. The change should give streamers and others working with video more flexibility without needing a workstation or data center GPU.

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AMD unveils new FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.0 details at GDC 2023

TechSpot

During its FidelityFX™ SDK presentation, AMD's Jason Lacroix treated attendees to a more detailed preview of the tool's upscaling features and capabilities. The next iteration of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR 3.0) will give users a two-fold increase in frame performance compared to the existing FSR 2.0 solution. Unfortunately, AMD didn't.

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