Napster Sells for $207 Million to VR Company

Nearly 30 years after Napster forever altered the music business, the company has been sold to Infinite Reality, a little-known virtual reality outfit based in Norwalk, Conn., for a surprisingly high sum: $207 million. Infinite Reality intends to use the Napster brand as part of its plans to offer virtual experiences involving streaming music. Napster was first launched in 1999 by Sean

OpenAI’s New Toy Could Be a Problem

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