The upcoming headset is able to do high-resolution, full-color passthrough so that wearers can interact with virtual objects overlaid onto their real-life environments. The mixed reality experience is built using Meta’s Presence Platform, which was […]

True personalisation is unachievable due to poor data quality, but it’s ineffective anyway and should be replaced with creative that resonates with everyone. Most personalisation efforts are powered by third-party data. Marketers infer who customers […]

The flood of talent that arrived in the wake of the deep learning explosion also brought a mudslide of bad research, fraud, and corporate greed along with it. Google, more than any other company, bears […]

We all hope for something better than what we see in games today. Spatial and Ready Player Me have some thoughts. Ready Player Me enables participants to create avatars they can use across the metaverse. […]

Dall-E 2 can conjure vivid pictures of dogs in berets to astronauts playing basketball. It also represents every major ethical concern there is about AI. OpenAI published a detailed document on the “Risks and Limitations” […]

The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it’s done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor. Our investigation revealed wide gaps between Worldcoin’s public messaging, which […]

Spaceship Neptune, a futuristic space balloon trip from Space Perspective, the “world’s first luxury spaceflight experience company,” will carry passengers almost 20 miles high to the upper one percent of our atmosphere. The company, headquartered […]

Could it be that we’ve all plugged our consciousnesses into a planet-sized sigil that summons demons? According to one theory, the internet is made of demons. Like most theories about the internet, this one is […]

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is diving deeper into the crypto market with the launch of a new academic lab dedicated to tackling research problems facing the fast-growing digital asset industry. Dubbed a16z Crypto […]

Most successful consumer social products walk through a boneyard of failures before achieving victory. Before TikTok came Vine, before Tinder came Match.com, and before Instagram and Snap came Flickr. Each of these groups shared the […]

To Meta’s CEO, the fact that his products have usually sat on platforms he didn’t control has long been a frustration. Back in 2015, toward the end of the period when Facebook seemed to be […]

Amazon has in the past explored the idea of glasses-free AR and is looking to hire computer vision scientists, designers, program managers, product managers and more. Add Amazon to the long list of companies looking […]

Somnium Space is developing a way for people to talk to their loved ones even after they die. All it requires is massive amounts of personal data. Almost five years ago, Artur Sychov’s father was […]

OpenAI’s latest picture-making AI is amazing—but raises questions about what we mean by intelligence. Image-generation models like DALL-E have come a long way in just a few years. In 2020, AI2 showed off a neural […]

An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a stealthy group of people that take part in an action that is intended to cause harm within cyber realms. Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats […]

Meta is racing to release its first AR glasses in 2024, but sources believe it’ll take a lot longer for them to become mainstream. The demonstrations during Zuckerberg’s Meta presentation, such as playing virtual chess […]

The Cruise autonomous vehicle was stopped in San Francisco’s Richmond District. A video showing a driverless car being stopped by the police and then attempting to drive away went viral over the weekend. San Francisco […]

While many cynical investors are excited about the possibility of betting on the right token and getting rich quickly, there is a smaller but more earnest contingent of people who see something bigger at play. […]

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to give cryptocurrency to everyone in the world, but the startup has pushed back its launch date and stopped operating in some countries. Worldcoin has suspended its work in multiple countries […]

My work at OpenAI reminds me every day about the magnitude of the socioeconomic change that is coming sooner than most people believe. Software that can think and learn will do more and more of […]

The Sam Altman–founded company Worldcoin says it aims to alleviate global poverty, but so far it has angered the very people it claims to be helping. Worldcoin promised to jump-start the global crypto revolution with […]

At OpenAI researchers are building technology that lets you create digital images simply by describing what you want to see. OpenAI, backed by a billion dollars in funding from Microsoft, is not yet sharing the […]

Quaise plans to use fusion technology to drill the deepest holes in history, unlocking clean, virtually limitless, geothermal energy to re-power fossil-fueled power plants all over the world. Everyone knows the Earth’s core is hot, […]

Web3 promised us a new era of privacy and security, but a series of recent major hacks make all that look like a lie. In reality, Web3 is becoming a security nightmare as a slew […]

Over the past 23 years, network effects have accounted for approximately 70% of the value creation in tech. We did a study of the digital companies that were founded since the Internet was widely available […]

Facebook stands alone in the depth and variety of network effects they’ve built, even though most go undetected. As a result, their defensibility is unparalleled. Facebook represents a completely new type of media company. All […]

What is the next step toward bridging the gap between natural and artificial intelligence? Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, is betting on self-supervised learning, machine […]

After a decade of work, the FIDO Alliance says it’s found the missing piece in the bridge to a password-free future. After years of tantalizing hints that a passwordless future is just around the corner, […]

A partnership between The Sandbox and HSBC will see the global financial services provider acquire a plot of LAND, virtual real estate in The Sandbox metaverse. The agreement opens the door for other global institutions […]

A growing number of new products allow anyone to apply artificial intelligence without having to write a line of computer code. Proponents believe the “no-code” movement will change the world. Sean Cusack, a software engineer […]