links

A collection of interesting links that made me go, WTF?
Oct
27

Link: A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack (Ned Beauman/Financial Times)

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Oct
27

Link: Japan has too many startups that IPO too early amid a lack of late-stage funding, hurting unicorn ambitions; data: funding is set to fall ~33% from 2022 to 2024 (Leo Lewis/Financial Times)

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Oct
27

Link: How militaries around the world are using warfare simulation video games like Slitherine Software's Command: Professional Edition to run battle scenarios (Wall Street Journal)

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Oct
26

Link: LinkedIn says it has verified 55M+ users for free, the most verified individual human identities of any social network, to combat AI-fueled misinformation (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

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Oct
26

Link: Brain-computer interface company Science Corporation says its retinal implant, which has a 2mm chip, let some blind people read, play cards, and recognize faces (Emily Mullin/Wired)

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