Walmart arrives on Roblox gaming metaverse to woo kids

Called 'Walmart Land' and 'Walmart's Universe of Play', the spaces offer unique interactive content and entertainment for customers, bringing to life the best of Walmart's 'isles' in a virtual world, the company said in a statement. https://ift.tt/Z1yikhx

Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons, which makes Splice and Remini, raised $340M+ from Italian banks Intesa Sanpaolo and Banco BPM, Ryan Reynolds, and more (Reuters)

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Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons, which makes Splice and Remini, raised $340M+ from Italian banks Intesa Sanpaolo and Banco BPM, Ryan Reynolds, and more  —  Italian app developer Bending Spoons has raised more than $340 million from investors including Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds and Kerry Trainor …

Flatfile, which automates onboarding, structuring, and cleaning data, raised a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $94.7M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Flatfile, which automates onboarding, structuring, and cleaning data, raised a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $94.7M  —  Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time.  In fact, data scientists spend an estimated 60% …

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale: 7 smartphones from Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme you can get an extra discount of up to Rs 10,000

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A look at South Korea's Zepeto, owned by Naver and considered one of Asia's largest metaverse platforms with 15M-20M MAUs, as it plans a global expansion (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at South Korea's Zepeto, owned by Naver and considered one of Asia's largest metaverse platforms with 15M-20M MAUs, as it plans a global expansion  —  Asia's largest metaverse platform, Zepeto, is stepping up its global expansion as it looks to compete against the Big Tech groups …

Meta wants you to have multiple Facebook and Instagram accounts

Meta is bringing two of its social media apps -- Facebook and Instagram -- closer than ever, with the introduction of two new features, encouraging users to have multiple accounts. The new features, which began rolling out recently, make it simple for users to create new accounts and switch between them. https://ift.tt/flkraQG

Oppo A77s design, key specs tipped online: What to expect

Te Oppo A77s is rumoured to have a teardrop notch on top of the display to house the selfie camera and the device is expected to have flat edges. The power button and the fingerprint reader are expected to be combined and placed on the right-side panel of the phone while the volume rockers are likely to be placed on the left side. https://ift.tt/qBhNOSA

Cloudflare announces Zero Trust SIM, a US-only, device-specific eSIM for iOS and Android that uses VPNs and DNS filtering, and Zero Trust for Mobile Operators (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare announces Zero Trust SIM, a US-only, device-specific eSIM for iOS and Android that uses VPNs and DNS filtering, and Zero Trust for Mobile Operators  —  Are smartphones ever entirely secure?  It depends on one's definition of “secure,” particularly when dealing with corporate environments.

A New York-based artist received copyright registration on a comic featuring artwork by Midjourney, the first known US copyright for latent diffusion AI art (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A New York-based artist received copyright registration on a comic featuring artwork by Midjourney, the first known US copyright for latent diffusion AI art  —  Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics.  —  In what might be a first …

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale: Minimum 34% discount on GTA V, Cyberpunk 2077 and other popular games

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Analysis: Amazon's regular trucking contractors were more than twice as likely as other companies to get unsafe driving scores from February 2020 to August 2022 (Christopher Weaver/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Weaver / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: Amazon's regular trucking contractors were more than twice as likely as other companies to get unsafe driving scores from February 2020 to August 2022  —  Its regular contractors were more than twice as likely to receive unsafe driving scores compared with similar outfits; Amazon says its network is safe

Redmi A1+ renders leaked online ahead of the launch, tipped to feature MediaTek Helio A22 chipset

Redmi recently unveiled its entry-level smartphone in India. The company is now gearing up to launch another A series smartphone in the market. The smartphone is said to be Redmi A1+ and is expected to resemble its predecessor Redmi A launched earlier this year. https://ift.tt/Se0ZKDP

Australian data and back office services provider Link says Canadian legal software maker Dye & Durham's $2.4B bid to acquire it has expired after two years (David Morris/Bloomberg)

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Australian data and back office services provider Link says Canadian legal software maker Dye & Durham's $2.4B bid to acquire it has expired after two years  —  Australia's Link Administration Holdings Ltd. has pulled the plug on a potential takeover by Canadian technology company Dye & Durham Ltd. …

Google Home will now detect your presence via Nest speakers

In a bid to enhance user experience, tech giant Google is bringing an improved presence sensing feature as it has announced that its Google Home can now use Nest speakers to detect users' presence. https://ift.tt/IG4eHT8

Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes  —  New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.