The South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film, culture and technology conference that started in Austin in 1987, attracts over 100,000 people every (non-pandemic) year. It is so massive, with dozens of panels every day, music and comedy performances and screenings every night, that no two SXSW experiences are the same. If you have FOMO watching […]
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It’s not yet clear how the new round of layoffs at Meta will affect its metaverse division, Reality Labs. As AI ascends the hype cycle and the Metaverse predictably descends into a trough of disillusion, the company is clearly reordering its priorities. As you can see from our special section about Meta below, schadenfreude is […]
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An Etsy marketplace is set up in Times Square outside the NASDAQ to commemorate the Etsy initial … [+] public offering which debuted to the public on Thursday, April 16, 2015. Shares of Etsy dropped up to 9.1% after investors who bought shares during the IPO dumped them on the first day they were allowed […]
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A Wing local delivery drone in action Wing Google sister company Wing is adding complex route management and self-loading capability for its drone delivery fleet that will make it capable of handling tens of millions of deliveries for millions of consumers by mid 2024, CEO Adam Woodworth says. Wing is testing drone delivery at low […]
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Mobile World Congress just wrapped up in Barcelona. The most significant announcement came from mobile chip and XR chip giant Qualcomm, which announced it partnered with 7 major telecoms to advance smartphone- tethered AR glasses using its Snapdragon Spaces XR development tools which enable the kind of dual compute needed to sustain latency free communications […]
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The $390 Pico 4 stand alone headset. Pico Disappointing sales of Pico’s well-reviewed VR headset caused Byte Dance to lay off staff. The company is reportedly planning to lay-off a third of its VR staff just months after Byte Dance (which also owns TikTok) launched the Pico 4 stand-alone VR headset. The meager marketing effort […]
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Just some of the Cosori air fryers included in a new recall announced on Thursday. Cosori Over 2 million Cosori air fryers have been recalled after reports of the appliance catching fire and even causing property damage, according to an announcement from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Anyone who owns the air fryers, which […]
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A U.S. Air Force pilot looked down at the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovered over … [+] the Central Continental United States February 3, 2023. Recovery efforts began shortly after the balloon was downed. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense) DVIDS The Pentagon has released a high-resolution photo of the Chinese spy […]
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to members of the press outside the West Wing of the White … [+] House on January 25, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Getty Images U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont proposed a new tax on robots Sunday over concerns automation technologies are putting people […]
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Every day, I wake with the feeling that we are on the cusp of a sudden dramatic change, the kind of disruption we lived through at the dawn of the Internet and the smartphone revolutions. As expected, and moreso, they changed everything, from work to family. The mobile internet vastly augments us, but it rips […]
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Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from the … [+] Chinese spy balloon for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek Feb. 10, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan Seelbach) DVIDS / U.S. Navy The Chinese spy balloon that […]
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File photo from February 4, 2023 of the Chinese spy balloon flies above in Charlotte NC, United … [+] States on February 04, 2023. (Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The U.S. military shot down another high-altitude aircraft Thursday night in U.S. territorial waters near Alaska, according to […]
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MacWhisper’s graphical user interface on the Mac MacWhisper / Matt Novak Are you looking for Mac software to transcribe audio files into written text files? There are plenty of paid tools, like Otter.ai and Trint, that can cost real money when you start using them too much. But MacWhisper is the free solution the internet […]
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Elon Musk Twitter account private page seen on Mobile with Elon Musk in the background on screen. On … [+] 2 February 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter will begin to share ad revenue with users, according to a tweet from CEO Elon Musk […]
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