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Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup Starship Technologies raised $90M co-led by Plural and Iconical, bringing its total raised to $230M  —  The delivery robots have travelled over 11 million miles and completed over six million autonomous deliveries worldwide. Source link

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and its Warzone component kicked off its Season 1 multiplayer today, marking its first major update since launch. The former gets three new maps as part of its 24/7 playlist, in addition to a 6v6 arena set in Rio, which will be available later in the season. As usual,

Ryan Morrison / Tom’s Guide: Roblox rolls out real-time AI chat translations, with support for 16 languages, built on an LLM trained on open-source and internal Roblox data  —  Works in 16 languages  —  Metaverse platform Roblox is bringing a new AI translation tool online for its millions of users around the world … Source

Flipkart Year End sale dates are now official. The week-long discount sale will begin in India on December 9 for all members. Like previous discount sales, Flipkart Plus members will get 24-hour early access to the sale. Products in categories including electronics, fashion, and furniture are promised to get discounts of up to 80 percent.

Sam Sabin / Axios: The US State Department announces a new policy allowing “the imposition of visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware”  —  – The visa restrictions would prevent those who have profited from or facilitated the misuse of commercial spyware from traveling to the U.S., the official added. Source

Threads is now rolling out a new Tags feature globally on the platform. The Meta-owned platform was introduced earlier this year to rival Elon Musk’s X. Meta announced a few weeks back that it was testing the use of tags on Threads posts. This feature, also known as hashtags, has been popular across social media sites for

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announces an event next week to share “our vision for the future of Xbox”, amid rumors that Xbox-exclusives are coming to PS5  —  Details of Microsoft’s multi-platform plans have been gradually leaking, with The Verge revealing over the weekend … Source link

Baldur’s Gate III took home the top honour at The Game Awards 2023, held early Friday in Los Angeles, besting its lead competitor Alan Wake II. The Dungeons & Dragons-based sprawling RPG, which was strongly revered by both fans and critics alike, bagged six trophies, including Best Community Support and Best Performance. The latter was

Nilay Patel / The Verge: YouTube says a “Vision Pro app is on our roadmap” but doesn’t offer a timeframe; YouTube videos in 360 and VR playback modes are not viewable in visionOS Safari  —  Here’s a little bit of an about-face: YouTube now says it has a Vision Pro app on its roadmap. Source

The Golden Globes 2024 nominations were revealed last night, with Greta Gerwig’s feminist candy-coated romp Barbie, which dominated the box office charts this year, leading the pack. It’s got a whopping 10 nominations, including one for Best Musical or Comedy, alongside acting nods for stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (supporting). The awards show has