David Bloom
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Writer: @Forbes, @tubefilter, @TVRev, @NextTV, #BloomInTech. Consultant. #music, #film, #tech, #games, #art, #sports. Narrative always wins. Tell your tale.
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | David Bloom
The mobile game Monopoly Go! just passed another big milestone, generating $5 billion in revenues in slightly less than two years, what its publisher, Scopely, says is the fastest a mobile title has ever reached that prodigious height.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | David Bloom
Jen, a tech startup backed by Grammy-winning musician/producer Imogen Heap and headed by music-tech veteran Shara Senderoff, today is launching StyleFilters, a tool that allows people to infuse the distinctive audio sensibility of an artist’s work into their own generative-AI musical creations, while ensuring the original artist gets paid. “For so many years, people said, ‘If only we could bottle up that (musician’s) vibe,’” said Senderoff, Jen’s CEO.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | David Bloom
Netflix is “off to a good start in 2025," the company said in its first-quarter earnings release on Thursday afternoon. Indeed, revenue was up 13%, and operating income up 27%, both ahead of the company’s typically conservative guidance thanks to “slightly higher” subscription and ad revenues, and the timing of expenses.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | David Bloom
10 hours agoWatch: First dire wolf’s howl for 10,000 years after scientists bring extinct species ‘back to life’The dire wolf, an ancient species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, has been revived in a “de-extinction” according to scientists. On Monday (7 April), Texas-based Colossal Biosciences said they have revived the extinct species famously featured in Game of Thrones with three puppies: Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | David Bloom
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin isn’t the only person whose imagination was captured by dire wolves, in his books massive and ferocious war beasts. But now, the prehistoric species called dire wolves, thought to have died out in North America 4,000 years ago, are back in the real world, thanks to Colossal Biosciences work the company touts as the world’s first successful de-extinction effort.
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