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Quell raises $3M to turn home fitness into a game

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Do people want their at-home fitness to come in video-game form? The incredible popularity of games like Ring Fit Adventure suggests yes. At the core of Quell’s gameplay is the “Gauntlet” — a harness, of sorts, that the player slips on to control Quell’s games. Image Credits: Quell.

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ThirdAI raises $6M to democratize AI to any hardware

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Houston-based ThirdAI , a company building tools to speed up deep learning technology without the need for specialized hardware like graphics processing units, brought in $6 million in seed funding. Their algorithm, “sub-linear deep learning engine,” instead uses CPUs that don’t require specialized acceleration hardware.

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Xbox Cloud Gaming now available on Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro

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Xbox has brought is Cloud Gaming service to Meta Quest VR headset devices, as both companies said it would at the launch of the latest Quest 3 hardware earlier this year. The Xbox Cloud Gaming app has a beta label, and it’s limited to Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets (sorry OG Quest […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

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The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

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Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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Artie sidesteps the app stores by putting high-quality games in your browser

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When you play a game, how do you play it? Usually, they are games with a physical form, a console or an app. Artie is gearing up to shake up the games industry with another option, bringing high-end games back to the browser. The company refers to it as “over-the-top game streaming.” “The Among Us on your phone?

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AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware

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Unlike conventional chips, theirs was destined for devices at the edge, particularly those running AI workloads, because Del Maffeo and the rest of the team perceived that most offline, at-the-edge computing hardware was inefficient and expensive. The edge AI hardware market is projected to grow from 920 million units in 2021 to 2.08

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