Insights
The DeanBeat: Apple v. Epic — a briefing on the antitrust arguments and interesting facts
Epic Games has argued that Apple's actions have stunted Epic's efforts to create the foundations for the Metaverse, or the...
Twitter expands election misinformation rules to include posts that claim victory prematurely
Twitter said it will label or remove misinformation aiming to undermine the U.S. election, including posts claiming victory...
Congress probes how AI will impact U.S. economic recovery
Congress heard testimony today about how the U.S. government should fund and regulate tech like AI that can eliminate jobs in...
Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
The newest version of Microsoft's DeepSpeed library includes optimizations for training trillion-parameter machine learning...
Riders Republic is Ubisoft’s multiplayer extreme-sports compilation
Riders Republic is Ubisoft's new massively multiplayer extreme-sports game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC. It is...
Hyper Scape launches turbo mode September 15
Ubisoft announced that its Hyper Scape battle royale game will get a turbo mode that speeds up the gameplay on September...
Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and misinformation
Google says its automated systems are becoming better at recognizing breaking news and detecting false and misleading...
Immortals: Fenyx Rising (formerly Gods & Monsters) is Ubisoft’s Zelda: Breath of the Wild
We played 2.5 hours of Immortals: Fenyx Rising, and the game is extremely like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in many...
Aiden Pearce returns in Watch Dogs: Legion as playable character
Aiden Pearce, the star of the first Watch Dogs game, will return as a playable character in Watch Dogs: Legion arriving on...
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game is coming back
During its Ubisoft Forward event today, the publisher announced that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game will become available...
NPA News
Feel the Squeeze yet?
Staggering numbers: The US unemployment rate going from 3.5% in February to 14.7% in April, 20M jobs lost just in April.I am certain, we all know someone by now that’s been economically affected, or worse, gotten sick by Covid-19.
WFHell
…what a rollercoaster it’s been the last few weeks!
WFH looked so GOOD, sleeping in, picking a home office location, all your favorite snacks close by, no annoying bosses/coworkers, afternoon workouts….
Nice funding round – $2.25B
It’s almost Spring and in case you didn’t know already, the month of March was named for the Roman god of war, Mars. Traditionally, this was the time of year to resume military campaigns that had been interrupted by winter.
Huge Funding Rounds
Happy February, 2020 is starting off great for a few startups as VC's are handing over boatloads of new cash. GoPuff , the online convenience store, secured $750M of fresh dough. Now go to their App and buy a pack of Skittles to get in on the sugar rush! On related...
Porsche Meets Star Wars
Happy New Year all, It's 2020 and Tesla's are so yesterday. Have you ordered your Porsche Starfighter yet? Star Wars and Porsche teamed up to create the new Tri-Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter featured in "The Rise of Skywalker". Transportation 2020 style. (Source:...
$50k Christmas Bonus
Hi there, hmm... It's our Boston quarterback's resume.....and suddenly your out of college resume doesn't look so bad anymore.... you're welcome. In all fairness, this was Tom's back-up plan in case he didn't make the NFL...but it's still entertaining to envision him...
Why good Supplier Relationships matter
‘Cash is King’, is what a former colleague of mine always used to say. In much of today’s procurement world, the focus is on financial-related actions like component/service price reduction, extension of payment terms, minimum inventory levels and supplier...
