Meta Platforms announced the release of its latest mixed reality headset, the Quest 3, earlier this month. The company, which is led by Mark Zuckerberg, is one of the biggest names in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality devices and is now allowing users as young as 10 to use its Quest 2 and Quest 3
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Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, announced at the VivaTech event in Paris that his brain-chip startup, Neuralink, is planning to carry out its first human trial later this year. The company aims to implant a tetraplegic or paraplegic patient during a webcast monitored by Reuters. Human Trials and FDA Clearance Last month, Neuralink received clearance
Meta Platforms, the company behind social media apps Facebook and Instagram, has announced that services have been restored after an outage that affected thousands of users. At one point, nearly 20,000 users reported having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram, as well as Meta’s messaging service WhatsApp. Downdetector.com, an outage-tracking website, reported that outage numbers had
Meta Platforms, the corporate parent of Facebook and Instagram, recently announced that it will allow children as young as 10 years old to access virtual reality through the Meta Quest headset. This decision has raised concerns about child safety and the potential harm that could arise from too much exposure to social media. The company,
Twitter is planning to focus on partnerships in video, creator, and commerce to revitalize its business beyond digital advertising. This comes after an investor presentation by owner Elon Musk and new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino, which was reviewed by Reuters. New Partnerships Yaccarino, who started as CEO on June 5, informed Twitter investors that the
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is under investigation by French prosecutors for “aggravated money-laundering” and operating an unauthorized exchange. The police raided Binance’s Paris office just days after the exchange’s French CEO, David Prinçay, dismissed concerns about US regulatory charges affecting Binance’s other operations, comparing them with the flapping of a butterfly’s wings. Dismissing
Amazon has confirmed that it will not be hosting its annual re:MARS conference this year. The conference, which stands for “Machine learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space,” was launched in 2019 as a way for startups, academics, researchers, and executives to discuss the latest developments in these technologies. Amazon has decided to incorporate these topics into
The sales of new electric vehicles (EVs) have increased by 55% in 2022 compared to the previous year. However, there are still many gas-powered cars on the road, and it looks like this trend will continue for a while. To tackle this issue, a new industry has emerged, converting internal combustion engine vehicles to electric.
Google has unveiled its new virtual try-on feature for clothes shopping on Search, making it easier for shoppers to buy clothes online. The feature uses generative AI to create highly detailed portrayals of clothing on real models, with different body shapes and sizes. Unlike many other virtual try-on tools in the market, Google’s new method
In 2022, Jason Allen won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition with an AI-generated work of art using Midjourney, a generative AI system trained on art collected from the internet. However, the use of AI to win the art competition triggered a heated backlash online, with many questions raised about ownership and authorship. As generative