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Q&A with Brian Ward, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group, on the $4.9B acquisition of Scopely, esports, human rights issues in Saudi Arabia, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Brian Ward, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group, on the $4.9B acquisition of Scopely, esports, human rights issues in Saudi Arabia, and more  —  Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy Games Group, has taken the lead in helping Saudi Arabia’s attempt to move beyond its reputation …

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Filing: Instacart aims to raise up to $616M in its IPO at an up to $7.73B valuation and prices shares at $26 to $28; the listing is expected later this month (Reuters)

Reuters: Filing: Instacart aims to raise up to $616M in its IPO at an up to $7.73B valuation and prices shares at $26 to $28; the listing is expected later this month  —  Instacart is aiming for a valuation of up to $7.73 billion, the grocery delivery company said on Monday, in its march toward

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Atari Introduces a New Old Console

Readers of a certain age no doubt remember the Atari 2600 — released in 1977, the 8-bit system helped establish the ground rules for gaming consoles as we know them today, all while sporting a swanky faux wood front panel designed to make the system look at home in contemporary living rooms. Now, nearly 50

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UK researchers detail Bluebird, a “digital twin” of English airspace to examine AI’s potential role in air traffic control, backed by £15M in government funding (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: UK researchers detail Bluebird, a “digital twin” of English airspace to examine AI’s potential role in air traffic control, backed by £15M in government funding  —  Project Bluebird is looking at how artificial intelligence could reduce the environmental impact of aviation

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FTX sues cross-chain swap protocol builder LayerZero Labs, seeking to undo a $45M deal made four days before FTX filed for bankruptcy and a $40M cash withdrawal (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Zack Abrams / The Block: FTX sues cross-chain swap protocol builder LayerZero Labs, seeking to undo a $45M deal made four days before FTX filed for bankruptcy and a $40M cash withdrawal  —  – The FTX estate is suing blockchain infrastructure company LayerZero Labs in an attempt to undo a $45M deal made in the

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How cybercriminals in Turkey teamed up with Russian émigré hackers to steal and sell tens of millions of credit card numbers, passwords, “hot” cookies, and more (Financial Times)

Financial Times: How cybercriminals in Turkey teamed up with Russian émigré hackers to steal and sell tens of millions of credit card numbers, passwords, “hot” cookies, and more  —  Émigré hackers fleeing Putin’s military conscription prompts surge in activity involving stolen financial data

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5 ways to use AI and machine learning in dataops

Data wrangling, dataops, data prep, data integration—whatever your organization calls it, managing the operations to integrate and cleanse data is labor intensive. Many businesses struggle to integrate new data sets efficiently, improve data quality, centralize master data records, and create cleansed customer data profiles. Dataops isn’t a new challenge, but the stakes are higher as

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A competition between Wharton MBA students and ChatGPT that judges generating ideas for a new product or service finds that 35 of the top 40 came from ChatGPT (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A competition between Wharton MBA students and ChatGPT that judges generating ideas for a new product or service finds that 35 of the top 40 came from ChatGPT  —  We put humans and AI to the test.  The results weren’t even close.  —  How good is AI in generating new ideas?

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Bringing Da Vinci’s Saw Mill to Life

DaVinci’s notebook — the real one, not the band — was full of wonderous inventions, though many were not actually built and probably weren’t even practical with the materials available at the time (or even now). [How To Make Everything] took one of the Master’s drawings from 1478 of a sawmill and tried to replicate

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