Netflix star and organizing consultant Marie Kondo is looking to get $40M in venture capital funding

Marie Kondo might be a familiar name to you now because of her Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. But before that, it started out as books and a personal brand for the Japanese personality. Now, her company is in talks to raise up to $40 million in venture capital funding to scale her business KonMari, which is behind all her ventures. This isn’t the first time KonMari had venture investment. It had closed a small funding round led by top-tier VC fund Sequoia Capital last year. Kondo is looking to fundraise again for plans involving building an e-commerce platform.

Source: TechCrunch

Nintendo brings virtual reality to the Switch via Labo VR kit

Nintendo has created a makeshift virtual reality kit for the Nintendo Switch using its Labo line of DIY cardboard accessories. As with other Labo sets, you have a few options to choose from. The main kit retails for US$79.99 (around CA$110) and has six cardboard kits you can build: VR goggles, blaster, camera, screen holder, “safety cap,” and an elephant. The basic kit costs less at $39.99 (around $55) but this just comes with goggles and the blaster. You can buy extra accessories (like the elephant) in $20 sets. The kit comes with Labo software, which has games, step-by-step instructions on building these kits, and “garage” mode for when you want to build your own Labo accessories. These new VR kits will be available starting April 12^th.

Source: The Verge

New Alexa feature announces songs before they start playing

This new feature for Amazon Alexa could be either very annoying or very useful. Called Song ID, the virtual assistant will announce the name and artist of whatever song is playing before the song plays. It’s a feature available exclusively to Amazon Music. Amazon added the feature because it thinks it’ll help with music discovery. Perhaps a lot of people have been asking the virtual assistant what song is playing. If you do find the feature annoying, you can ask Alexa to “Turn off Song ID.”

Source: The Verge

Update on Friday, March 8, 2019 at 10:06PM by Nicole Batac

The feature is currently only available in the US.

‘Moonlight’ actor Andre Holland rumoured to be in the running for ‘Black Widow’ villain role

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With Black Widow film in the works, we’re hearing updates about the said film. The latest rumour surrounding the Scarlett Johansson’s first solo movie in the MCU is that they’re considering actor Andre Holland to play a villain role in the film. Andre has earned critical acclaim for his role in Moonlight as well as Hulu’s Castle Rock. According to the report, Marvel was initially looking for a “male with open ethnicity in his 40s to portray the film’s villain.” But now it’s being narrowed down to either a Black British or African actor between the ages 30 and 45 to portray a “tough, dangerous, and mysterious” villain. Some theories about who this could be include Taskmaster or Red Guardian.

Source: Comicbook.com