Monthly Archives: September 2022

PlayerUnknown’s new game sounds outrageously ambitious

A small example of what Melba can do. | Image: PlayerUnknown Productions Hey, remember PlayerUnknown? As in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG to your friends? Yeah, well Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, has provided details surrounding his latest gaming project, codenamed “Artemis,” which aims to be an open-source Earth-sized virtual environment supporting hundreds of thousands of players…

Headspace wants researchers to test how the app works

Photo by Edward Smith / Getty Images Mental health technology company Headspace Health is calling for researchers to submit proposals for studies on the impact of the company’s tools. The company’s products include both the meditation app Headspace and the digital therapy platform Ginger. “We see meditation as both a practice rooted in ancient history…

Juno just raced by Europa, providing our best look in 20 years at the icy world

Enlarge / The best images we have of Europa were gathered more than two decades ago. (credit: NASA) On Thursday morning, NASA’s Juno spacecraft swooped down to within 358 km of the surface of Europa, the large, ice-encrusted Moon that orbits Jupiter. This flyby will provide humanity its closest look at Europa since the Galileo…

TripActions reportedly files to go public at $12 billion valuation

TripActions is said to have filed confidentially to go public in the third quarter of next year at a $12 billion valuation. Citing an unnamed source, Business Insider broke the news on Wednesday that the company had filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. Bloomberg’s Katie Roof…

Stockholm-based Ripe helps product-led B2B companies find the ripest leads in their customer base

Product-led growth (PLG) is defined by VC firm OpenView as “a growth model where product usage drives customer acquisition, retention and expansion.” This is a major shift from growth driven by hands-on selling efforts, with broader implications than it may initially seem. A key difference is that the most successful product-led companies only reach out…

Arcade scores $7.5M seed to make it simple to build a product demo

Software product marketers typically are charged with creating demos for potential customers. These let people who are interested in the product see how a function inside an application works as a way to whet the appetite of the potential buyer. Arcade, a startup launched by two former Atlassian employees, decided to attack this problem with…

Studio’s private group camcorder app lets friends create ‘episodes’ by combining 10-second videos

As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio, launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums. These albums, or “studios” as they’re called, are…