with headsets, but none have been able to hit the price-to-performance target like the Meta Quest 2. Valve tried with its Index, but its high price tag made it inaccessible to a lot of people. HTC has offered VR headsets for many years, but none of them have broken through …

Google is preparing to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Gmail accounts accessed via web browser—but not everyone will get to enjoy the new feature. According to an announcement from Friday, only Google Workspace users will experience new E2EE email protections when they’re swapping messages back and forth. Now through Jan. …

Mars doesn’t have any native inhabitants (that we know of), but it is inhabited by a cadre of robots. Most of the red planet’s mechanical explorers come from the US and Europe, but China succeeded in landing the Zhurong rover last year. The robot has been in hibernation throughout the …

(Photo: ActionVance/Unsplash)NASA’s Geostationary Carbon Observatory (GeoCarb) mission would have placed a satellite in geostationary orbit with the sole purpose of tracking Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions. It would have clocked the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane levels no less than 10 million times each day. This information would have …

In the last decade, advancements in technology have reshaped how retail companies do business. Following COVID-19, new and immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR) and mixed reality (MR) are changing consumer behavior, employee expectations and the shopping experience. Retail is migrating to the metaverse. Years ago, these …

During the 2022 Adobe Max conference, Adobe announced a new partnership between the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and Leica Camera to add content credentials in Photoshop for the Leica M11 camera: “Today marks an exciting milestone in our mission as we announce partnerships with industry-leading camera manufacturers, Leica and Nikon, to …

Apple could adopt a “hybrid” OLED technology in iPads by 2024 that could allow for slimmer devices while lowering production costs, according to a new report out today (via DigiTimes). By combining rigid OLED glass substrates with flexible OLED thin-film encapsulation, the hybrid OLED technology is said to make OLED …

Digital transformation has been positioned as a cure-all to many of the challenges today’s enterprises face. But to fully reap the benefits of a digital transformation, businesses need to do more than just adopt the latest tools and apps. They also have to change their attitudes, practices and processes around …

Speaker: Qingshan Lin (Longji) (Co-Founder of Apache RocketMQ, Senior Technical Expert of Alibaba Cloud, and Head of Alibaba Cloud’s Message Product Line) is an expert in the international messaging field, committed to the research and exploration of messaging, real-time computing, and event-driven architecture, promoting the evolution of RocketMQ cloud-native architecture …

(Credit: Google)Google’s DeepMind AI division has already built machines that can wreck you in StarCraft II and predict millions of protein structures, but now it’s taking on an even harder task: writing coherent code. In an apparent effort to put themselves out of a job, DeepMind researchers have created an …