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Mythical Games raises $75M to build an NFT game engine

TechCrunch LA

The PC game capitalizes on a number of big social gaming trends around user-created content, while adding in a marketplace where users can buy avatar figures and accessories crafted by a variety of artists and designers that Mythical has partnered with. Users can buy or sell the limited run or open edition items through their marketplace.

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Mangling JSON numbers

TechEmpower

In the remainder of this article, we examine potential improvements to our handling of long. Any server-side web framework or HTTP server will do. The front-end framework will do it, $.getJSON We should write an alternative to JSON.stringify that produces an exact representation of our number.” Failing fast.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. Some more on metrics design and quantification.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

Our goal in this article is to paint a realistic picture of how to think about performance early in the life of an application. This article is focused on the server side, but we encourage you to also look at your application holistically. A high-performance application is designed to perform well with a reasonable amount of hot data.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

In a recently published paper, Horvitz and Stanford computer science PhD student Ethan Fast analyzed the last 30 years of articles about artificial intelligence in the New York Times. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We