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LOVE unveils a modern video messaging app with a business model that puts users in control

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The company is launching a messaging app that offers a combination of video calling as well as asynchronous video and audio messaging, in an ad-free, privacy-focused experience with a number of bells and whistles, including artistic filters and real-time transcription and translation features. Image Credits: LOVE.

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Revel raises $7.8M to become the Instagram and Robinhood of NFT platforms

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Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. (As

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Stacked gets $13M to be the Twitch for web3 gamers

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Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. “But prices are being normalized.”

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Ayoken raises $1.4M to grow its NFT marketplace for creatives

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Through the NFT marketplace, he said, fans will have access to tokens such as behind-the-scenes videos and album art. His career includes helping scale AZA (Bitpesa), a Nairobi-based platform that leverages bitcoin to facilitate cross-border remittances and where he first got introduced to crypto and blockchain technology.

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AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot

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While the video engine powering the 3D character rending components of this “digital human” version of Einstein is the work of another synthesized media company — UneeQ — which is hosting the interactive chatbot version on its website. So there’s a bit more than AI artifice going on here too.

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Gary Vaynerchuk, Mark Cuban back web3 project tool Thirdweb

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Thirdweb was created by Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Furquan Rydhan, who was founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin. They also say companies like Nike, Disney, Bumble and Meta are already itching to begin building apps and products, like blockchain games, NFT platforms, DAOs and creator projects, for the metaverse, web3 and NFT spaces.

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Daily Crunch: $8.5B Amazon-MGM merger will bring thousands of titles to Prime Video

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Paradigm backs Ethereum scaler Optimism : The Ethereum blockchain has a lot to like about it. A new social calendar : Hybridizing calendars and the to-do space, with a healthy mix of team focus, Amie is a neat idea. We dug into how that change is happening. You can program it and use it for all sorts of things.