MakerBot Industries, creator of home 3D printers, has announced a total of $10 million in funding from a number of investors, the bulk coming from Foundry Group.
Gaming has started to look more like the movie industry, with creators and executives often suing each other over who should benefit from the windfall of profits on successful games.
"The giants of the building industry, the creators for decades of massive communities of cookie-cutter homes, cul-de-sacs and McMansions in far-flung suburbs" are doing an about-face, suddenly building smaller neighborhoods in and close to cities, noted an article in USA Today last month.
That should come as music to the ears of an industry whose creators are, in many cases, still waiting for a bigger slice of the streaming pie even as Spotify has generated a valuation north of $25 billion on the open market.
This past week, three colleagues and I prepared an article pitch, on historical and other reasons why research scientists and industry content creators haven't always connected well, and suggestions for collaboration going forward.
Judge next skewered the tech industry as creator of the live-action television series Silicon Valley (2014– ).
Very soon we realise that this film is not merely set in LA, it's about Hollywood as a place, an industry, a creator and shaper of dreams and narratives, a distorter and destroyer of lives.
We'll soon enter a new world of computing accelerated once again by the industry's creator Steve Jobs, and amplified by someone conceived after the PC, Mark Zuckerberg.
"One of the things we want to do with the Panama festival is increase awareness of countries having their own industries and creators," said Pituka Ortega Heilbron, the festival's executive director.
