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Meta announced a host of new AI-powered bots, features and products to be released across its messaging apps, the Meta Quest 3 and the future Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The new features — ranging from an AI assistant to image editing — harness...
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has closed the investigation into a mishap that occurred last September during a launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle, with the regulator saying that Blue must implement 21 corrective actions befor...
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Artifact, a platform built by Instagram’s co-founders, is launching the ability for users to make posts. Up until now, the platform has been an aggregator for news and links, but is now becoming more of a social network by allowing users to crea...
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Actors are in the middle of a major, protracted battle with Hollywood over what role AI will be playing in the future of entertainment, and how they’ll be compensated for that when those AIs are basically likenesses of them. Over at Meta, it loo...
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A U.S. security researcher is warning of a chilling effect after he was detained on arrival at a U.S. airport, his phone was searched, and was ordered to testify to a grand jury, only to have prosecutors reverse course and drop the investigation...
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After being delisted from the NYSE, regaining investor confidence won't be easy
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It’s been over a year since shared micromobility startup Bird warned shareho...
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Meta’s new Quest 3 mixed-reality headset will allow users to personalize their physical spaces with “augments” — a series of objects and widgets that are digitally plastered to their real-world environment.
“Next year, you’ll be able to customi...
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Arc is making a splash with investors as it wraps up deliveries of its limited edition $300,000 electric boat and eyes its next target: watersports. And, specifically the kind that require a wake.
The Los Angeles-based electric boat startup, whi...
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As government and banking services move away from verifying identities in the real world, moving toward online ID verification, several companies have entered the market to solve this problem. A new startup from France is entering the market wit...
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Headspace is coming to Meta’s Quest 3 VR headset “soon,” Meta’s Head of Developer Relations, Melissa Brown, announced at the company’s Connect event today.
The Headspace experience is a “virtual playground for your mind” and a place to hang out...
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The Department of Justice raked eBay over the proverbial coals today, accusing the online retailer of “unlawfully selling and distributing hundreds of thousands” of products that threaten the environment and public health.
In a statement on Wedn...
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8 hours ago
Meta’s annual Connect conference started today, and this means lots of new hardware. Are you ready for an update on Meta Quest 3? Didn’t have time to tune in live? That’s okay — we summed up the most important parts from the keynote below. And a...
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9 hours ago
Meta, angling for a seat at the AI chatbot table, is launching a host of new AI-powered bots across its messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. They’re available for select users in beta in the U.S. as of today.
One is an AI...
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When Meta rebranded from Facebook two years ago, the word “metaverse” went mainstream. Even people outside the tech world wondered if we would soon start to socialize via virtual reality headsets. But, at least according to public opinion and th...
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Meta’s VR subscription service, Quest+, is now being bundled with the company’s Quest 3 mixed-reality headset. The subscription, which provides VR device owners the ability to two handpicked games from the Quest library each month, will now be i...