Netflix is planning to expand into video games and hire a former Electronic Arts Inc. and Facebook Inc. executive to lead the effort. Mike Verdu will join the company as vice president of game development, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Greg Peters. The idea is to offer video games on Netflix’s streaming platform within the next year.
Project Steno was a Facebook-backed initiative aiming to let people type by thinking, aiming to create a system that translates brain activity into words, but Facebook is backing off the idea of a commercial head-mounted brain-reading device and building out wrist-worn interfaces instead.
NASA released a new animated video showing details from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed Juno spacecraft’s flybys of Jupiter and its massive icy moon, Ganymede, last month, making its recent close approach to GanyMede, also the largest moon of the solar system.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will launch Tuesday from a remote area of west Texas on his Blue Origin rocket, becoming the second billionaire this month to leave the Earth, coming less than two weeks after Richard Branson took to space aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity. The space rivalry doesn’t end there: Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who regularly trades places with Bezos as the world’S richest person, also plans to join the uber-rich who’ve been to space on Virgin Galactic, though there’ll no firm date for his flight.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has sued Amazon.com Inc to force the retailer to recall hundreds of thousands of hazardous products that it had distributed on its platform. The products included 24,000 carbon monoxide detectors that failed to go off, nearly 400,000 hair dryers that lacked required protection against shock and electrocution, and numerous children's sleepwear garments that could catch fire.
The semiconductor space has advanced dramatically over the past year, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digitalization across all sectors. While demand has increased, only a few companies can make the most advanced semiconductors, resulting in widespread shortages. As the semiconductor industry grapples with surging demand, transparency into the supply chain is critical.
Apollo Global Management announced a deal with Figure Technologies to collaborate on blockchain initiatives, which is used for various financial applications, including asset backed securities, managing cap tables for stocks and payments. The deal with Apollo is to list funds on the blockchain, asset securitization and digital marketplaces.
Marketing budgets as a percentage of overall revenue reached the lowest level recorded since Gartner began tracking such allocations as part of its annual CMO Spend Survey, slipping from 11% of company revenue in 2020 to just 6.4% this year. All categories are experiencing headwinds, with brands with revenue of over $2 billion reporting the lowest average marketing budget at 5.7%.
Jackson Palmer, the co-founder of Dogecoin, launched an astonishing attack on cryptocurrency, claiming it has the “worst parts of today's capitalist system” in a Wednesday Twitter thread. Palmer founded Dogecoins in 2013 for fun with co- founder Billy Markus before selling all his holdings.
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