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ASUS will start integrating Dirac sound in some of its laptops

Swedish digital audio company Dirac and consumer technology company ASUS have expanded their partnership to integrate Dirac Virtuo spatial audio into the new ROG Phone 7 series of smartphones and Vivobook and ExpertBook series of laptops.

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Dirac Virtuo spatial audio delivers realistic and immersive soundscapes, enhancing the overall user experience. According to Dirac Chief Commercial Officer Mats Oberg, this continued collaboration helps provide the ASUS community with best-in-class gaming and media experiences through unrivaled immersive audio performance.

“Working directly with global technology leaders is core to our mission to improve the state of digital sound

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by Ismene
Software

Progress Software (PRGS): Restarting The M&A Engine With MarkLogic Acquisition

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Progress Software (NASDAQ:PRGS) recently announced its proposed acquisition of privately held on-premise NoSQL database vendor MarkLogic for $355m cash (webcast here). The implied 3-4x EV/Sales valuation seems slightly pricey given the low-single-digit % growth

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OWO and Ubisoft collaborate on an Assassin’s Creed haptic shirt

Have you become bored with your haptic controller and chair? Feel the need for a more immersive experience? Well, OWO and Ubisoft want to give you exactly that with the Assassin’s Creed haptic shirts. The companies even claim that you will “never feel exclusive sensations before”, I don’t want to know.

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Purchasers of the Assassin’s Creed haptic shirts will also get a copy of “Mirage” with their purchase and Haptic OWO Sensations will be available on PlayStation5, PlayStation4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC. Here’s what the OWO says about this latest gaming device:

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MeWe opening up profiles for web view without an account

On July 1st, Elon Musk announced that Twitter would be closing its users’ profile from view on the web, if you do not have a Twitter account. Since Twitter’s launch, profiles and Tweets could be seen by anyone, even without an account. Musk attributed the move to a rash of data scrapping that Twitter is trying to get a handle on. MeWe, an alternative social network that I, personally, use and where we have a considerable following, has announced the polar opposite.

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

MeWe has always been a closed ecosystem and you always need an account

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by Ismene