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Mayfield raised just shy of $1B to avoid unicorn hype

TechCrunch

History has shown that when public markets are at their peak, venture funds are the worst performing,” Chaddha said. Mayfield raised just shy of $1B to avoid unicorn hype by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch It’s time to lean forward.”

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Over 700,000 concurrent players hit Elden Ring after expansion launch

TechSpot

The expansion dropped last Friday to tremendous critical acclaim, earning the highest review scores of any video game DLC in recorded history. And it seems the fans have matched that hype, sending Elden Ring's concurrent player count on Steam skyrocketing. With a Metacritic score of 93, expectations were understandably sky-high.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

Here’s a brief history of all the times Tim Cook said he was convinced AR was the future. But despite the interesting early projects, ARKit hype fizzled after a few months. July 2016: Cook says in a quarterly earnings call that “AR can be really great.”. “We We have been and continue to invest a lot in this.

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CD Projekt settles Cyberpunk 2077 lawsuit for just $1.85 million

TechSpot

Cyberpunk 2077 launched on December 10, 2020, to more hype than possibly any other title in history. Sadly, the PC version was plagued with bugs and poor performance, and that was nothing compared to its state on last-gen consoles. So bad was the game on the PS4 that Sony removed.

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Black Myth: Wukong release triggers PS5 sales surge in China, spiking Sony stock

TechSpot

Highly anticipated and hyped action RPG Black Myth: Wukong is breaking records and taking names. The game launched on August 20 and sold 10 million copies worldwide within three days, smashing all expectations and making it one of the fastest-selling games in history. It also broke Steam's concurrent single-player record.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Dry powder’s slow fuse, landing page basics, generative AI hype

TechCrunch

After they tracked uninvested capital by year going back to 2006, the pair found that “a crisis within the investment landscape has often been followed by years of systematic outperformance of returns, and history has a way of repeating itself.” Is generative AI already becoming a bubble?

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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Bitcoin blockchain, for example, is supported by roughly 10,000 nodes hosting its freely downloadable database software, and it has never been hacked during its ten-year history. Despite the hype and complexity, blockchain is a truly disruptive technology and one worth keeping an eye on by all nonprofit technology innovators.