Best of 80 LEVEL — September 2022

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   Adobe Will Acquire Figma for $20 Billion

   Art by Vijay Verma Adobe has announced it will acquire the collaborative design platform Figma for approximately $20 billion. Dylan Field and Evan Wallace began working on Figma in 2012, now the app is popular among designers and developers. The transaction is expected to close in 2023.

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   Logo Rank: AI System to Help with Logo Design

   Logo Rank is an AI system developed by Brandmark that considers your logo and helps with its design. The tool is trained on over a million logo images to give you tips and ideas. It can also be used "to see if your designer took inspiration from stock icons"

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   Terra Nil: An Upcoming Reverse City Builder

   Terra Nil is an upcoming game by the developers of Broforce Free Lives and Devolver Digital. The developers describe the game as a "reverse city builder" with the goal of building not a bustling city but an ecological paradise. The game is set to be released in early 2023.

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   Using AI and AR to Create T-Shirt Designs

   Shopify's Russ Maschmeyer demonstrated one more practical application for text-to-image AIs. The new prototype is capable of creating t-shirt designs from speech prompts said by a person. At the moment, the prototype cannot generate images in real-time.

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   Google Is Shutting Down Half of Area 120 Projects

   Google has decided to close half of its Area 120 R&D division in an effort to streamline operations and improve efficiency.

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   AI-Generated Artwork Wins First Place at State Fair Art Contest

   Jason Allen won the first-place prize in the digital art category at Colorado State Fair's fine art competition. Allen, the president of Colorado-based tabletop gaming company Incarnate Games, used an AI tool that generates images based on text prompts.

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   GTA 6 Leaker Tries to Sell the Game's Source Code

   Leaker has access to GTA 5 and 6's source code, Rockstar's employee details, invoices, and contracts. Leaker is currently trying to sell the games' source code to Rockstar, threatening to release them if they do not come in contact.

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   Arcane and Jibaro Get Emmy Awards

   Netflix's Arcane and Jibaro won the Outstanding Animated Program and Outstanding Short Form Animated Program nominations. The two shows also won four additional Emmys for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. The awards were presented on September 3-4 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

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   NVIDIA Maxine Maintains Eye Contact for You

   NVIDIA Maxine Maintains Eye Contact for You NVIDIA announced the re-architecture of Maxine for cloud-native microservices. Maxine’s cloud- native microservices allow developers to build real-time AI applications. The service enables clear communications to enhance virtual interactions.

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