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Amazon closing its ‘Style’ physical clothing stores, will continue investing in grocery

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Inside Amazon Style, the tech giant’s first-ever physical fashion store. Amazon Photo) Amazon Style is already out of fashion. Shoppers looking for women’s and men’s apparel, shoes and accessories used the Amazon Shopping mobile app to scan QR codes to see sizes, colors, overall customer ratings, and additional product details.

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5 takeaways from SXSW 2022: Web3, holograms, spatial audio, social justice, and tacos

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In one of the first activations I walked into, I was offered a complimentary NFT at the door and proceeded up the stairs to see multiple people in headsets playing a social VR game that was being projected on the walls. Heightened emphasis on social justice & equity.

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

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They can then use those avatars to travel into one of a few million player-created “rooms,” where they can play games, create custom experiences, and socialize with other users. As of this month, Rec Room reports 640% year-over-year growth on mobile, with 29 million active users across all platforms in Q1 2022.

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Zynga and Kenneth Cole team up for Pride Month with High Heels game partnership

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Game maker Zynga and fashion designer Kenneth Cole have teamed up to celebrate Pride Month inside Zynga's High Heels hypercasual mobile game. Read More.

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Seattle startup that helps parents figure out what their kids are doing online lands cash

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The company is led by Karl Stillner and Steve Dossick , who previously co-founded PushSpring, a Seattle startup that developed advertising technology and was acquired by T-Mobile in 2019. The app is meant to complement monitoring tools such as Apple’s Screen Time or Android’s Family Link. Trilogy also backed PushSpring.

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DARPA offers $42 million for ‘revolutionary’ research on social media analysis

Trends in the Living Networks

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (slogan: Creating and Preventing Strategic Surprise) is offering $42 million in funding for “revolutionary&# research into social media in strategic communication. sharing technology (such as YouTube), and further accelerated by the proliferation of mobile technology.

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GeekWire Awards FAQ: What to know if you’re coming to the big show

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South Seattle, WA 98134 Attire: We are geeks, not fashion consultants so come in what’s most comfortable. If you still need fashion help or suggestions, scan the photos from last year’s event. Social : Use #GeekWireAwards when sharing scenes from the festivities to your feeds. When: Thursday, May 18, 5:30 to 10 p.m.

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