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...On Friday, DD revealed that the PIF was is in talks to invest as much as $400m in Magic Leap at a $6bn valuation even though the start-up has yet to even put one of its augmented reality glasses on the market...
...With Microsoft developing its Hololens and Google investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the secretive “mixed reality” start-up Magic Leap, Apple is also said to be prototyping such headsets, the FT...
...(Wired) FT FYI Magic Leap raises $800m from Alibaba, Warner Bros and Google MTN hires ex-US attorney-general Eric Holder to fight $3.9bn fine Solar-powered spy drones to join Britain’s fleet of military...
...Last week, it was part of a large group of investors that put nearly $800m into Magic Leap, a Florida-based start-up working on a headset that uses light-field technology to project realistic images directly...
...Some companies have been developing augmented reality devices, with Microsoft launching Hololens in January and the Google-backed Magic Leap planning to release an early version of its AR headset this year...
...In addition, Google has invested in Magic Leap, which is developing an augmented reality headset of its own....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Finally, Mr O’Connor could not resist heading his note on the departure of Paul Stobart, Sage’s northern European chief executive, as D.I.V.O.R.C.E....
...In Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe 1958-62, Frank Dikotter has written the definitive account of the Great Leap Forward....
...That photograph of Elvis in ecstasy was taken by William V....
...Small step for a man (or house); giant leap for mankind....
...“It’s not like working for the man, where you leave it at the office at five o’clock,” he tells me in a soft southern drawl....
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