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Private investment in space continues to be battered by larger macro-economic trends, like high interest rates and inflation, but not all sectors of the space industry are affected equally, a new report from New York-based VC firm Space Capital found. While broader market conditions are disproportionately affecting funding in deep tech — which includes high […]

Investment in space continues to drop, but some sectors more resilient than others, report finds by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

For a long time, the world of 3D engines — especially for game developers — was all about Unity and Epic’s Unreal Engine. Then, when Amazon started its ill-fated attempt to get into gaming, it launched the Lumberyard engine (which itself was based on Crytek’s CryEngine). And while you hopefully don’t remember the disappointment that […]

The Open 3D Engine adds improved terrain creation and collaboration tools by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Activist investor Starboard Value announced this morning that it was taking a “significant stake” in Salesforce, per CNBC. A presentation on the company website confirmed the firm’s interest in Salesforce, as well as Wix and Splunk. The presentation looks at the company’s financial situation and concludes that it could be giving investors a better return. […]

Starboard Value reportedly taking ‘significant’ stake in Salesforce by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Seems we may not be getting a surprise October Apple event, after all. The company just dropped what will, no doubt, be one of its last major hardware updates for the calendar year. The iPad Pro is getting a spec refresh revolving around an upgrade for the M1 to M2 chip. The new chip sports […]

Apple’s new M2 iPad Pro arrives October 26 by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo’s web browser for Mac is now available as an open beta test, the Internet privacy company announced today. Six months after the web browsing app rolled out as a closed beta, DuckDuckGo added new features to version 0.30, including a “Duck Player” to defend users from targeted ads and cookies when they watch YouTube […]

DuckDuckGo’s beta Mac app is open to public with new features by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Businesses will soon need professionals whose job is to create a presence and potentially build with Web3 technologies and concepts in the metaverse — and there’s plenty that businesses can do now to prepare for that.