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Meta teases Orion, brain-powered true AR glasses in a tiny package

The Orion glasses, which are notably significantly smaller than Snap’s recently announced Spectacles 5, are true AR. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Meta teases Orion, ‘the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen’

At Wednesday’s Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced what he described as Meta teases Orion, ‘the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.’ The glasses, which are notably significantly smaller than Snap’s recently announced Spectacles 5, are true … Continue reading

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Meta Ray-Bans are getting live translation

Meta has yet to announce the languages that will be initial available, though judging from the above statement, it seems them will initially be limited to romance languages like English, Spanish, French, and Italian. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. … Continue reading

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Meta Connect 2024: Everything announced on AI, the metaverse, Quest headsets and more

Meta Connect 2024 is starting soon, and with it comes the expectation of reveals and updates to Meta’s latest AI model and metaverse ambitions. The developer-centric event will feature a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, during which he will likely … Continue reading

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Diagrid launches Catalyst to help enterprises build their microservices

Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, a new open-source project that made building event-driven distributed applications easier for developers. Like so many popular open-source projects, Dapr spawned its own ecosystem, especially after Microsoft donated it to the Linux Foundation. And … Continue reading

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After losing a peering lawsuit in Germany, Meta says it’s never getting back together with Deutsche Telekom

Consumer apps can generate a lot of traffic and revenue, but some carriers have complained that they’re not getting a fair cut of the pie for carrying all that traffic across their network infrastructure. But if you were looking for … Continue reading

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Ayrton Energy mimics margarine to store hydrogen safely

As the universe’s lightest gas, hydrogen is tricky to contain. But there’s an alternative: attaching hydrogen atoms to a carrier molecule that’s easier to move. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Audible experiments with new AI features for tailored audiobook recommendations

Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service, continues to experiment with AI to improve audiobook discovery and offer customized recommendations. Recent tests involve AI-powered tags, which analyze customer feedback to offer tailored suggestions according to individual preferences, and topic pages that recommend … Continue reading

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Meta acquires the Threads.com domain name

Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24. Users on domain-related forums pointed out this transfer, and TechCrunch confirmed the Whois records of Threads.com separately, which list Meta’s … Continue reading

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Tomasz Tunguz’s Theory Ventures bets $12M on Initia, the ‘iOS for web3’

The promise of blockchain to change the world hasn’t materialized. For the most part, the technology has instead enabled people to speculate on a new asset class. A big hurdle to realizing blockchain’s full potential, web3 proponents argue, is that … Continue reading

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