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| | | | | Monday, September 30, 2019 ⢠By Anthony Ha |
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Happy Monday Facebook’s latest VR play faces stiff competition, Spotify adds more support for podcasts and a new hardware Kickstarter campaign makes some bold claims. Here’s your Daily Crunch for September 30, 2019. |
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| Last week, Facebook unveiled Horizon, a massively multiplayer VR world that’s scheduled to launch in 2020. This might seem to play to Facebook’s software strengths, but Lucas Matney argues that the social networking giant may not actually have much of an advantage against smaller game studios. For example, the team at Against Gravity has already built a network inside VR called Rec Room thatâs been maturing over the past few years, with rich environments and toolsets for multiplayer interactions. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more |
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| Users can create their own custom playlists of their favorite podcasts, or even those that combine music and audio â similar to Spotifyâs newly launched playlist âYour Daily Drive.â Read more |
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| The EcoFlow Delta is a new battery generator available on Kickstarter with incredible features claimed. Most are true, some are not. Read more |
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| Earlier this year, Google and Amazon reached an agreement to bring their streaming video apps to each otherâs platforms. The YouTube app launched on Fire TV in July, and now Google is adding its live TV streaming service. Read more |
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| Launched in 2014 as a study platform for medical students, Amboss has since evolved to offer what it claims is the âmost comprehensive and technologically-advancedâ knowledge platform for medical professionals. Read more |
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| Weâre bringing some of the industryâs leaders onstage at Disrupt SF â including Bird founder and CEO Travis VanderZanden, Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun and Zoox CEO Aicha Evans. Read more |
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| The latest episode of Equity kicks off with the reemergence of the much-criticized startup Bodega, which is now known as Stockwell and has raised a total of $45 million in funding. Meanwhile, Original Content reviews “Between Two Ferns: The Movie” on Netflix. Read more |
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