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Meta has revealed a Tamagotchi-like device on stage at its Connect event, except instead of a digital pet, it contains the company's Muse AI. During the demo, Mark Zuckerberg showed how you only have to tap on the "Muse…
Albanese said the incident occurred in June and involved an agent gaining unauthorized access to a portal that stores statistics related to Medicare, Australia’s national health insurance scheme. “The AI agent accessed…
Meta is making another concession to privacy critics as it tries to get ahead of the ongoing privacy backlash against its AI glasses. Now, the company says it will allow people to opt out of having their "visual data"…
At the firm's Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, executives said the new Ray-Ban Meta models set new standards for battery life and weight. They said the new glasses with screens in the lenses squeeze…
Ahead of their official reveal, I got to spend 30 minutes with the new tech, experiencing a wide range of demos that might have convinced me this isn’t merely Meta’s best VR headset yet — it could be the best VR headset…
Smart glasses are getting banned from offices, event spaces, pubs, and courtrooms (among other venues), and folks are expressing their uneasiness at being under the gaze of camera-equipped specs — especially given the…
And while it's announcing some new games alongside the VR glasses, including the latest iteration of Beat Saber, I don't think gaming will be a primary use case. Instead, Meta seems to be positioning its VR glasses as…
A close-up of the lutetium clock’s interior, which is the world’s most accurate timekeeper. Credit: Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore Lutetium clock is the best timekeeper ever Physicists…
Researchers say this is the first instance of a frontier AI model breaching another country’s government systems. Although no personal health data are thought to have been accessed, the breach is the latest in a series…
The arm loaded a multi-well plate into an instrument that filled the wells with liquid, then carried the plate to a distant device that analysed the wells’ contents. Baranzadeh, a computational biologist at Carnegie…