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Three weeks ago, I added a campsite to my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. Three weeks ago, Leopold, a walking testament to unearned confidence, showed up. Three weeks ago, I stopped unlocking new features in Animal Crossing.Read more...

Many factors need to be considered and worked out in partnership with local health departments before individual school districts can open again, according to the AAP.

Mojo Vision’s technology still felt early-stage when we met with them back at CES. But the demos we did see were enough to convince us that there really could be something to the California startup’s smart content lens technology. Clearly we weren’t alone in …

Netflix and Production I.G recently debuted the first season of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, and after a couple viewings (once in Japanese and once in English), I sure do have some opinions about it.Read more...

The slight differences between Trump and his education chief reflect a much more vociferous fight at the local level.

A lot of people love anime.. This article isn’t for them. No, it’s specifically for those people in your life who claim to have no interest in anime as a genre. But the thing is, anime isn’t really a genre: It’s an entire medium, full of many genres and speci…

Ian Sherr / CNET: Mojo Vision, which is building AR contact lenses, raises $51M Series B-1 led by NEA, bringing its total raised to $159M+  —  There's little debate that, as tech pushes further into our lives, we'll soon be using augmented reality glasses tha…

the refurbishment preserves the original features of the apartment, such as the beautiful ceiling moldings and oak flooring. The post NEA renovates a 19th century apartment in paris to create a timeless light-filled space appeared first on designboom | archit…

A 14,000-year-old genome scraped from a prehistoric tooth found in southern Siberia is now the oldest known connection linking living Native Americans to North America’s first migrants.Read more...

Having moved from New York to Ljubljana to start his own studio, our former Ones to Watch talks us through a host of playful new projects.

In many ways, Taylor Tomasi-Hill's career has evolved with the fashion industry, her resume reflecting how the tides — and perhaps more consequentially, the power brokers — have shifted.  She was a magazine editor at the time when it was peak-glamourized in t…

Personal Genome Diagnostics, the venture-backed developer of a novel diagnostic kit for genomic profiling of different cancers in lab settings, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its PGDx elio tissue complete test. The test’…

Luminary Media, the money-losing podcasting startup, has raised more than $30 million in a new round and is seeking more funding as it tries to ride out the global pandemic, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. From the report: The funds were raised at a level below…

The prolific jazz artist also worked with John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, and many others

Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has completed a periodic review of the ratings of Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund and other ratings that are associated with the same analytical unit. The review was conducted through a portfolio review in which Moody's reassessed the appropriateness of the ratings in the context of the relevant principal methodology(ies), recent developments, and a comparison of the financial and operating profile to similarly rated peers. This publication does not announce a credit rating action and is not an indication of whether or not a credit rating action is likely in the near future.

MasterClass, a startup that sells celebrity-taught classes to people, has raised $100 million in a Series E round. The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from new investors including Owl Ventures, 01 Advisors and existi…

Previous investor Sequoia Capital led the round with participation from NEA, Ribbit Capital, 9Yards Capital, and Unusual Ventures.

Mojo Vision, which is building an augmented reality contact lens, said it's raised an additional $51 million.

According to a new report from Bloomberg, online tutorial company MasterClass has just raised $100 million USD in funding through its Series E round, which was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company alongside existing investors NEA, IVP, Atomico, and N…

Schools in most states have been ordered to stay closed the rest of the year or strongly urged to do so.

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. After spending perhaps more time than we should have recently trying to figure out what’s going on with the public markets, let’s return to …

States and localities’ budget deficits have soared due to the coronavirus crisis. Yields on municipal debt are far higher than usual.