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Meta is partially reversing its decision to drop VR support for Horizon Worlds, keeping VR access for existing Unity-based games while shifting future development to a new flatscreen-focused Horizon Engine. UploadVR reports: If you somehow missed it, on Tuesday Meta officially announced that its Horizon Worlds "metaverse" platform would drop VR support in June, meaning it would only be available as a flatscreen experience for the web and smartphones. But now, in an "ask me anything" session on his Instagram
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Astrophysicists increasingly fear artificial intelligence could weaken scientific reasoning while transforming research, publishing, training, and academic culture worldwide. Read more ›
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US citizens are doing their best to get data centers banned, but the revenue and investment is too juicy for some industries to resist. Read more ›
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Garages tend to get messy fast in summer, but a few routine cleaning habits can help keep dirt, yard debris, clutter, and grime under control. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is fueling a new voter fraud conspiracy. What’s happening? California held its primaries last week, and a week later, votes are still […] Read more ›
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General Motors is pushing into energy storage for data centres and the electrical grid, announcing a sodium-ion battery development partnership with Peak Energy, a lithium iron phosphate supply deal with LG Energy Solution, and an expanded relationship with Redwood Materials. The moves mark GM’s clearest signal yet that it sees its $900 million investment in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Anthropic today announced the launch of Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model that it says is safe for general use. According to Anthropic, Fable 5's capabilities exceed those of any model it has made generally available, and Fable has demonstrated "exceptional performance" for software engineering, knowledge work, vision, scientific research, and more. It outperforms Opus models on longer, more complex tasks. Fable 5 can work autonomously for longer than any... Read more ›
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Статья призвана познакомить читателя с тем, как биологические механизмы могут применяться при разработке искусственных нейронных сетей для создания сильного искусственного интеллекта (AGI). Читать далее Read more ›
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A recent video of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea offers the possibility of deriving valuable information for conservation strategies. Read more ›
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With AI usage growing tremendously in recent years, we reflect on one of the most intriguing framings of this technology Read more ›
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The European Commission has ordered Meta to temporarily restore free WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI chatbots while it investigates whether Meta's ban on third-party assistants abuses its dominant position. Meta says it will appeal, calling the move "regulatory overreach" that would let major AI companies use a paid WhatsApp product for free. The BBC reports: The EU said it began its investigation, in December 2025, after Meta banned... Read more ›
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The startup touted a production-ready breakthrough in solid-state battery tech, but the claims collapsed under scrutiny. Read more ›
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Apple’s new Siri AI, unveiled yesterday at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2026), may look like a consumer product story on the surface. But for enterprise developers and IT leaders, the bigger news from WWDC26 is that Apple is turning Siri into a systemwide AI interface for apps, data and workplace actions across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro, as revealed in the WWDC26 Apple Intelligence developer... Read more ›
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Apple's software event, the last for outgoing CEO Tim Cook, gave us an early look at new features for iOS and MacOS and an overhauled Siri. Read more ›
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Valve’s Steam Machine, the compact gaming PC announced in November 2025, could launch on or before June 29 based on a pattern in the company’s FCC regulatory filings. The theory, first spotted by Notebookcheck and sourced to Reddit user u/wayTooManyBugs, draws on how Valve handled the regulatory paperwork for its Steam Controller, which launched on […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Think your annual Costco membership fee gets you the exact same benefits it used to? Discover the beloved member privileges that quietly went away. Read more ›
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It’s Tuesday, June 9, 2026, and venture investors continue to write large checks—but only for companies operating at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, automation, and strategic technology. Funding activity was lighter than usual over the past 12 hours, yet the ... Read more ›
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Strong summer demand and weakened rivals are buying Cathay room to absorb the fuel spike – the test is whether that cover holds once the peak fades. Read more ›
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Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like Claude Fable 5 — one that runs on a single H100. The tradeoff: Cohere's North Mini Code, which launched Tuesday, generated three times the output tokens of comparable models in independent testing, a verbosity cost that compounds in high-volume production workloads.The new open-source model is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 3... Read more ›
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A new Leiden Declaration, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union and published on June 2, 2026, warns that AI could undermine mathematics by flooding the field with plausible but flawed proofs, weakening attribution, shifting incentives, and giving tech companies too much influence over research priorities. "Mathematicians should find it quite striking that tech companies are suddenly interested in their work," said Kevin Buzzard, a mathematician at Imperial College London, in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows, with two working hardware designs so far, and an initial set of big-name companies lined up to run pilots. The platform, dubbed "Project Solara," is Microsoft's bet that AI will open up entirely new scenarios for computing... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Science Foundation's $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of more than 900 deep-sea instruments used to monitor ocean currents, marine ecosystems, carbon absorption, heat waves, fisheries, coastal flooding, and climate change. The NSF said it would send ships in June to begin the removal of the instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina, and an area between Greenland and... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from Defense One: A small but growing number of European officials and analysts are saying what four years ago was unthinkable: Ukraine isn't just surviving its grueling war with Russia, it is in some ways thriving and may even be on a path to victory. This isn't yet captured in headlines -- for example, about last weekend's barrage of Russian drones and missiles around Ukraine --... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Phone by Google wants to combat the "growing threat of impersonation scams" and protect Android users against "sophisticated, AI-powered deepfake attacks" with fake call detection. [...] Fake call detection requires that both parties are on Android and use the Phone by Google app, while Google Messages and Google Contacts also have to be installed. When a contact calls, their phone "sends a... Read more ›
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Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits lasting about 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, and claims it could have a commercially useful quantum machine by 2029. The BBC reports: "We will have a quantum machine in 2029 that can solve commercially viable, reasonable problems," said Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum. That would still require huge further... Read more ›
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Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit] said the team behind the software had also introduced... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft's Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft's opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. [...] On the hardware front, we didn't get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday's Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the... Read more ›
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Google has released (PDF) technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the Fitbit Air to encourage users to make their own accessories. "These CAD drawings include crucial mating dimensions, tolerances, and mating force specifications -- including attach and detach force -- to help you build a high-quality accessory band," Google says on a store page listing. 9to5Google reports: Noting how the "community has already come up with innovative and creative... Read more ›
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Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter open AI model designed to run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud infrastructure. WION reports: According to Google, the new model delivers performance close to much larger AI systems while requiring significantly less memory. The company says Gemma 4 12B can run locally on devices equipped with just 16GB of VRAM, making advanced AI more accessible to developers, researchers... Read more ›
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