Reface, a viral face-swap app from Ukraine, adds anti-war push notifications

Reface, an a16z-backed synthetic media app that’s developed out of Ukraine, has added push notifications informing its ~200 million-strong global user-base about Russia’s invasion of the country — urging people to #StandWithUkraine, including by watermarking face-swapped videos created with the

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Day One Ventures adds climate-focused partner Sanjiv Sanghavi

Day One Ventures — which, among other things, invested in Superhuman, Truebill, DuckDuckGo and others — is bringing on ClassPass co-founder Sanjiv Sanghavi as a partner focusing exclusively on climate tech. Sanghavi represents a goal for the fund to deploy

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Meta adds ‘personal boundaries’ to Horizon Worlds and Venues to fight harassment

Meta is rolling out a feature called Personal Boundary in its Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues virtual reality spaces to combat harassment. Each avatar will have a bubble with a radius of two virtual feet, so they won’t be able

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Marvel's Avengers Adds Hawkeye Skin for Clint Barton From Disney Show

Marvel’s Avengers announced that it will add a new outfit for Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, that is true to the outfit he wore in the latest show. No sooner has the latest project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Disney+ show Hawkeye,

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Valve moves Dota 2 International to Romania, adds mask-and-vax rules

Valve announced this week that its prestigious Dota 2 tournament The International will require all attendees to be fully masked and vaccinated for entry. As noted on the Dota 2 site, anyone attending the October competition at the National Arena

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Amazon’s Luna game-streaming service adds $3-for-family, free-with-Prime tiers

The official Luna Controller from Amazon. It’s not required to access any of this week’s new developments, but it directly connects to your router for the sake of quicker cloud-gaming response times. Jeff Dunn Which gaming service lives in a

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'The Masked Singer' Adds a Game-Changing Twist for Season 6

The Masked Singer is back for season 6, and as is tradition, the costumes are even bigger and wilder than they were the previous season. A teaser released ahead of the show’s September 22 premiere introduced five new contestants for

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