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The Division 2 gets The Summit free update on September 22
Ubisoft is launching a free update entitled The Summit for The Division 2 on September 22. The French video game maker announced...
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’s remake is official and kinda ugly
Ubisoft revealed a remake of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, the most iconic entry in the Prince of Persia franchise, during...
CEO Yves Guillemot apologizes for toxic employees ahead of Ubisoft Forward
Just a few hours before the start of another Ubisoft Forward stream, the publisher posted an apology video from its chief...
Cruise’s AI enables driverless vehicles to navigate uncommon scenarios
GM-backed autonomous car startup Cruise uses a framework dubbed the Continous Learning Machine to train perception models on...
DuckieNet lets developers test autonomous vehicle systems using toy cars
DuckieNet is an open source platform for developing, testing, and evaluating autonomous navigation and perception algorithms...
Why in-game ads have become the go-to revenue strategy (Infographic)
New research shows that 51% of mobile players play longer with games in ads, and 47% play more often as a result of in-game...
Niko Partners: 75% of China’s 720 million gamers live outside the biggest cities
Niko Partners said that its latest study on China's gaming market shows that 75% of China's 720 million gamers live outside the...
Intel and Samsung detail AI-powered fetal ultrasound tools
Intel and Samsung today detailed AI-driven solutions to help doctors accurately and quickly measure a fetus inside the womb.Read...
Addicting Games acquires online survival game Mope.io with 72 million users
Addicting Games has acquired the online creature survival game Mope.io, a web and mobile game with more than 72 million to...
Orchard raises $69 million to develop machine learning for buying and selling homes
Orchard raised $69 million to continue the development of its machine learning technology that aims to make buying a home less...
NPA News
2021 turns out to be a record year
It’s been super busy the first couple of weeks of 2022, which clearly delayed the release of our January newsletter.
Go check out this Web3 thing below. They are either all participating in psychedelic drug trials and upped the dosage, or I am just not buying it, but feel free to convince me otherwise.
Santa is charging for delivery this year
As the year comes to an end, we want to thank and congratulate all the 2021 NPA’s Startups to Watch for their incredible accomplishments during this challenging Covid year.
China hands US the lead.
Here is your chance to put a New England Startup with Hardware content on a winning pedestal for 2022. See more below.
And oh geeze, it’s just six weeks until Christmas! Start buying presents now as there won’t be much left in December.
how girls will rule robotics.
Boom! Starry to go public via Blank-Check deal valued at $1.66B.
NPA’s 2021 Startups to Watch are killing it!
September 20th was Special! Locus Robotics announced that it has acquired Waypoint Robotics.
$17.4 billion funding for Massachusetts startups
Massachusetts startups raised a record $17.4 billion in VC funding during the first six months of 2021.
New CEOs, Mega Rounds and good ol’ Ops News
Just when my airline awards account hit rock bottom, I saw this CNN report on a 2021 finalist of the Crystal Cabin Awards. Just when my airline awards account hit rock bottom, I saw this CNN report on a 2021 finalist of the Crystal Cabin Awards. The name sounds interesting, “Chaise Longue Economy Seat”, but geez, imagine being at the bottom row and the dude in the top row lets one rip.
Who let the pigs out?
It’s amazing how Boston has already changed with the latest relaxations in Covid precautions. It will be such an epic summer, and we can’t wait for the borders to open soon again.
NFTs are a huge hit.
Somewhat unrelated to what we do………
If you are new to NFTs, you might want to read this article from The Verge to get acquainted with this technology trend.
A new Boston Billionaire, of course, he has a startup- Duh
According to the Boston Business Journal, Jason Robins, CEO and co-founder of DraftKings, became part of the elusive “Three-Comma Club”.
