Tech Meme

Toby Bochan / CoinDesk: In a major policy shift, Google Play now lets developers incorporate tokenized digital assets, such as NFTs, into their Android apps and games  —  The company is opening up the ability for developers to let users buy, sell or earn digital assets in apps as long as they maintain transparency and adhere to other rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard MacManus / The New Stack: A look at Meta’s plan to adopt ActivityPub for Threads, how ActivityPub suits Meta’s goals, and the technical challenges and social pressure facing the company  —  From a developer point of view, the fact that Meta’s Threads app has quickly gone over 100 million sign-ups isn’t the most interesting part of this latest Twitter clone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Recursion, which uses AI models for drug discovery, plans to use its 23K+ TB datasets to train its models on Nvidia’s cloud platform and raised $50M from Nvidia  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) invested $50 million to speed up training of biotech firm Recursion’s (RXRX.O) artificial intelligence models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chainalysis: Crypto crime in H1 2023 vs. H1 2022: inflows to known illicit entities fell 65% YoY, scammers took nearly $3.3B less, and ransomware attackers made $175.8M more  —  2023 so far has been a year of recovery for cryptocurrency after a chaotic 2022, with prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% on the year as of June 30. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The UK CMA will not accept new Microsoft and Activision Blizzard remedies but says a restructured deal may satisfy its concerns, subject to a new investigation  —  Britain’s competition regulator said on Wednesday that a new restructured Microsoft-Activision deal could require a fresh merger investigation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta says Roblox will be coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets starting with an open beta on App Lab “in the coming weeks”  —  / It’s launching in open beta in the ‘coming weeks.’  —  Roblox will be coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets starting with an open beta that will be available in the … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Toby Bochan / CoinDesk: In a major policy shift, Google Play now lets developers have tokenized digital assets like NFTs in apps including games  —  The company is opening up the ability for developers to let users buy, sell or earn digital assets in apps as long as they maintain transparency and adhere to other rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Giles / Bloomberg: Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more  —  Elon Musk, who has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Buenos Aires-based InvGate, which offers IT service and asset management tools, raised $35M led by Riverwood, its first external funding since its 2009 founding  —  InvGate, a SaaS platform offering information technology service management and IT asset management products … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Adobe: US consumers spent $6.4B at Amazon during Prime Day’s first 24 hours, up 6% YoY but below estimates; Numerator: average orders were up 7% YoY to $56.64  —  US consumers spent $6.4 billion online in the first 24 hours of Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Day, according to Adobe Inc. That’s up 6% … Lees verder op Tech Meme