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Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams

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Despite billions of dollars in investment, and a sustained marketing push from some of the biggest names in the technology industry, virtual reality still doesn’t register with most regular consumers. Hardware makers have invested billions to improve the technology, and they’d like that money to not go to waste.

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Google spinoff Cartken and REEF Technology launch Miami’s first delivery robots

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The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. With this announcement, Cartken officially comes out of stealth mode.

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MakeItWork Signs Radio Syndication Deal

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Santa Barbara-based Make It Work said today that it has signed a national syndication agreement with Envision Radio Networks , which will make the firm's technology radio show available to radio stations nationwide. Both shows are hosted by Make It Work co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Anticouni.

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MySpace Music Names Execs

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Los Angeles-based social networking web site MySpace said Tuesday afternoon that it has named three executives for the firm's music community, MySpace Music. Kantrowitz was most recently SVP International Marketing and Content for MySpace; Maghen was CTO at Yahoo! Tags: social content myspace networking music executive.

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Entropic Communications Shuffles CTO

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San Diego-basd Entropic Communications , a manufacturer of semiconductors for the home entertainment networking market, announced Wednesday that it has hired on a new Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Tom Lookabaugh. Tags: entropic communications semiconductor moca cable broadband networking executive.

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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

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Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. They also add that LAGbook ranks #2 in the city of Yaba-Lagos, where the social network was incepted, and #37 in the city of Hirtshal, Denmark. We create a social network for students of the University of Lagos.

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Arterys, GE Healthcare to Roll Out Next-Gen MRI Scans of Heart

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Chicago-based GE Healthcare is now about to go to market with the new magnetic resonance imaging technique. But it took several extra layers of technology, and a collaboration with San Francisco startup Arterys , to make that possible. market, the companies say.