Month: June 2020

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Your humble Equity team is pretty tired but in good spirits, as there was a lot to talk about this week. But, first, three things to start us off: All that said, here’s what we talked about on
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Photo: Getty Big Oil has spent decades perfecting the art of lying and pursuing a strategy to divide the public so it can continue its polluting ways. It’s been a successful model that has run into a brick wall that is the new climate movement. Advertisement An increasingly diverse, young, and angry coalition is done
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Team up with friends and take on waves of colorful ghosts across a ghoulish haunted mansion. VR arcades and location-based entertainment venues have been hit hard by COVID-19 and the ensuing global lockdown. Vertigo Arcades (Arizona Sunshine LB VR, The Corsaire’s Curse), a spin-off of Vertigo Games (Arizona Sunshine, Until the Fall) dedicated to location-based
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Plume, the Denver-based startup that provides hormone replacement therapies and medical consultations tailored to the trans community, could not be launching at a time when the company’s services are more needed. It’s no hyperbole to say that transgender citizens in the United States are under attack. Whether from government policies that are intended to defund
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Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company’s blog. Terms of deal aren’t being disclosed. The Mapillary team and project will become part of Facebook’s broader open mapping efforts. Mapillary also
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Keep a look out for virtual billboards advertising your favorite products. Thanks in large part to the growing demand for social and mobile gaming, in-game advertising is on a monumental rise. The ability to seamlessly integrate real-world promotional content into an interactive game experience—whether it be an in-game billboard, commercial, or cutscene—offers advertisers the chance
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Over the past two decades, the venture capital industry has exploded beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations. What began as a sleepy industry in Boston and Menlo Park has now expanded to dozens of cities the world over. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that VCs deployed more than $130 billion in 2018 and 2019, and thousands
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Even if you’re a veteran of FromSoftware’s other games like the Dark Souls series, Demon’s Souls, or Bloodborne, you’re still going to have quite a bit of learning to do when you fire up Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. The kicker is that it plays similarly to the aforementioned FromSoftware games, but different enough to throw
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Sigma’s venture into lenses made solely for mirrorless fans just took a leap forward with the brand’s first full-frame, telephoto zoom for L-mount and E-mount cameras in Sigma’s Contemporary line. Announced during an online event on June 18, the Sigma 100-400mm F/5-6.3 DG DN OS brings optically stabilized, long-zoom performance to Sigma, Panasonic, Leica, and Sony
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It’s been more than 25 years since the premiere of The X-Files, the award-winning series starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson that debuted in 1993 and made everyone believe “the truth is out there.” FBI Agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) returned to the spotlight in recent years for a successful revival of the hit
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FP TrendingJun 18, 2020 15:14:00 IST Scientists have recently observed a pattern of fast radio bursts from an unknown source 500 million light-years away. The study was conducted by a team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, and findings of which were published in the journal Nature. Phys.org explains fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short, intense flashes of
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DroneBase, a Los Angeles-based provider of drone pilots for industrial services companies, has raised $7.5 million during the pandemic to double down on its work with renewable energy companies. While chief executive Dan Burton acknowledged that the company was fundraising prior to the pandemic, the industrial lockdown actually accelerated demand for the company’s services. Even
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Photo: Hannah McKay (Pool/Getty Images) Video chat service Zoom will finally add end-to-end encryption to calls placed by users on the free version of its service, weeks after announcing it would only be available to premium users who shelled out for the privilege. Advertisement In April, Zoom faced a shareholder lawsuit alleging that the service
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Battle waves of forsaken souls across the procedurally generated levels of heaven and hell. Released back in 2018 for SteamVR headsets, Sólfar Studios‘ VR rogue-lite shooter In Death made a surprise appearance during yesterday’s UploadVR Summer Showcase in the form of In Death: Unchained. For those unfamiliar with the highly-addicting fantasy combat game, In Death
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