The 30% cut in Meta’s budget for this technology can be seen either as a death sentence for the project or as a natural phase within a long-term strategy ...
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Meta insists VR not dead

Facebook burned $73bn and changed its name to "Meta" trying to make virtual reality take off, and its fortunes only recovered after pivoting into the AI boom. But the dream is not dead, despite ...
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers ...
This 3D printed NAS build supports seven disks with a PCIe SATA card, offering higher throughput and more room to expand your media library.
Grafana is a terrific data visualization utility, and when used with a proper database app, can turn into a gorgeous ...
In early 2025, Google launched Gemini 2.0, an AI co-scientist designed to act as a virtual collaborator for biomedical ...
A flutter of blue and yellow darts through a field in late May. Trees, shrubs and summer flowers fill the landscape. A ...
The ‘godmother of AI’ talks about her latest venture to create 3D worlds to ‘superpower’ human creativity in areas including robotics and gaming ...
Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...
Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, and Tesla dominate markets. Here’s how each makes money—and where future ...
Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still ...
You must be in the US, but if you are, upload a selfie to the website and select a size, and Nano Banana -- Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model -- will generate a full-length image, allowing you to ...