Month: July 2024

Dead Rising has always played second fiddle to Capcom’s vastly more popular and successful Resident Evil franchise. Yet, while Dead Rising might not be as famous or beloved as Resident Evil, its quirky characters, oddball tone, endless hordes of zombies, and tension-building ticking clock made it feel unique and helped it develop its own fanbase.
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Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. This week we’re looking at an AI startup that wants to help people get creative with video; Kudos, which raised $3 million to help get rid
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Canadian private equity firm PartnerOne has acquired HeadSpin in a fire sale, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. And most of its former employees received nothing for their options, according to multiple sources. HeadSpin is the mobile app testing company whose founder was sentenced to prison for fraud earlier this year. In total, HeadSpin raised $117 million
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Xbox Game Pass may have received a substantial (and terrible) update this week, but that hasn’t stopped the service from adding bangers to its revolving catalog. Neon White, one of the most insanely inventive and cringe-inducing games I’ve ever played, is the latest and greatest addition, and you owe it to yourself to experience its
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Nintendo games and consoles never get price drops anymore, but they do occasionally get surprisingly decent discounts. Whether to capitalize on the lead up to Amazon Prime Day, or just unload some excess summer inventory, the stars have aligned for some decent Switch deals this week that probably won’t last much longer. Suggested Reading What
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems is shipping a pair of its specialized magnets to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the startup exclusively told TechCrunch. The move comes years before CFS anticipates starting its demonstration reactor, SPARC. It’s the first such deal, though possibly not the last, suggesting that the fusion sector has matured to the point where it
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/ DeepMind is using video tours and Gemini 1.5 Pro to train robots to navigate and complete tasks. By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Share this story DeepMind found “preliminary evidence” that Gemini enables its robots
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When Aizada Marat moved from New York to California in 2018 with her husband, KODIF co-founder and CEO Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov, she needed to sort out her immigration status. That’s when everything started going badly. The Kyrgyzstan-born, Harvard-educated attorney came to the U.S. when she was 17 for an exchange year with FLEX (future leaders exchange)
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