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Meta plans to bring more generative AI tech into games, specifically VR, AR and mixed reality games, as the company looks to reinvigorate its flagging metaverse strategy. According to a…

Meta plans to bring generative AI to metaverse games

A hacker has exploited a vulnerability to steal $100 million from Harmony’s Horizon Bridge, which allows users to transfer their crypto assets from one blockchain to another. Harmony, the U.S.…

Hacker exploits Harmony blockchain bridge, loots $100M in crypto

Meta is rolling out a feature called Personal Boundary in its Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues VR spaces to combat harassment. Each avatar will have a bubble with a radius…

Meta adds ‘personal boundaries’ to Horizon Worlds and Venues to fight harassment

Following the quarterly release of Facebook’s earnings numbers where the company’s CFO takes time to walk through the nitty gritty of the company’s financials, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a moment…

Zuckerberg is turning trillion-dollar Facebook into a ‘metaverse’ company, he tells investors

Global air transport data giant SITA has confirmed a data breach involving passenger data. The company said in a brief statement on Thursday that it had been the “victim of…

Airlines warn of data breaches after SITA passenger system hack

The European Commission has launched a data portal for scientists studying the SARS-CoV-2 virus to speed up access to data sets and tools in order to bolster research efforts by…

EU data portal launches to support COVID-19 research

When it comes to augmented reality technologies, visuals always seems to be a pretty essential part of most people’s definitions, but one startup is offering an interesting take on audio-based…

Aira’s new smart glasses give blind users a guide through the visual world

Last year at VMworld, there was this news story from VMware that was so refreshing. It concerned a new effort called Project Octopus. It had all the markings of a…

No More Project Octopus — A Corporate Dropbox Gets A Corporate Name

Now this is good news – provided there isn’t a fuel cell hydrogen spill somewhere off the coast of Nova Scotia tomorrow. Horizon has been promising their liquid fuel cell…

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Hands on with Horizon fuel cells

Ready to power your iPod with clean, delicious hydrogen? I got a chance to see Horizon fuel cell technologies up close yesterday and I’m pleased to report that soon we…