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26 Sep

The Meta Quest 3S vs Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3: Finding a happy medium

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Meta announced its new mixed reality headset during the 2024 Meta Connect keynote on Wednesday. The Meta Quest 3S will start at $300 and represents a more affordable, yet higher-specced option between the $500 Quest 3 from last year and 2020's (soon to be discontinued) Quest 2.The new model has the same processor as the Quest 3, as well as…

26 Sep

Meta AI can now talk to you and edit your photos

John RoutledgeLatest News

Over the last year, Meta has made its AI assistant so ubiquitous in its apps it’s almost hard to believe that Meta AI is only a year old. But, one year after its launch at the last Connect, the company is infusing Meta AI with a load of new features in the hopes that more people will find its assistant…

26 Sep

Meta will stop selling the Quest 2 and Quest Pro by the end of the year

John RoutledgeLatest News

Meta just revealed the budget-friendly Quest 3S VR headset at its annual Connect keynote event, but it also made a sad announcement about some of its previous headsets. The company will stop selling both the Quest 2 and the Quest Pro by the end of the year.“With Quest 3S on the shelf, we’re officially winding down sales of Quest 2…

26 Sep

Meta’s Ray-Ban branded smart glasses are getting AI-powered reminders and translation features

John RoutledgeLatest News

Meta’s AI assistant has always been the most intriguing feature of its second-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses. While the generative AI assistant had fairly limited capabilities when the glasses launched last fall, the addition of real-time information and multimodal capabilities offered a range of new possibilities for the accessory.Now, Meta is significantly upgrading the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses’ AI powers. The…

26 Sep

Google files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft

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Google filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission on Wednesday. In it, Google accused Microsoft of making it prohibitively expensive for cloud customers to move their work from Azure to other providers, like Google Cloud.Google claims Microsoft’s cloud licensing terms restrict European customers from switching to competing cloud platforms despite “no technical barriers to doing so.” In a…

26 Sep

Meta’s Orion holographic avatars will (eventually) be in VR too

John RoutledgeLatest News

The biggest reveal at Meta’s Connect event was its long-promised AR glasses, Orion. As expected, the prototype, each of which reportedly costs around $10,000, won’t be ready for the public any time soon.In the meantime, Meta offered a glimpse of its new holographic avatars, which will allow people to talk with lifelike holograms in augmented reality. The holograms are Meta’s…

25 Sep

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is delayed until February 14

John RoutledgeLatest News

You can strike one game off of the busy fall 2024 calender. Ubisoft has delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows until February 14. It was originally supposed to hit PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac and iPad on November 15.You can probably guess the main reason why Ubisoft is pushing the latest entry in the saga back by a few months. While all…

25 Sep

DoNotPay ‘robot lawyer’ fined $193K by the FTC for not being a lawyer

John RoutledgeLatest News

The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against DoNotPay, alleging that the AI-powered company billing itself as "the world's first robot lawyer" failed to back its claims that it could replace human legal representation. The agency's complaint argues that DoNotPay did not conduct tests to assess whether its AI chatbot was equivalent to a human lawyer, and that the company…

25 Sep

iRobot’s Roomba Combo Essential with self-emptying base is $170 off right now

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iRobot's Roomba Combo Essential bundle is available for $280 right now via QVC. This is a discount of $170 for a combo pack that includes the Roomba Combo 2 robovac and the self-emptying base. The vacuum typically costs $280 all by its lonesome, so this basically gets you a free base. However, the vacuum is available for just $200 right…

25 Sep

New report details OpenAI’s plan to switch to for-profit mode

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A major shakeup is in the works at OpenAI. Reuters reported that the artificial intelligence research company is restructuring its business from a non-profit board into a for-profit corporation. The publication also says Sam Altman would be given equity in the new corporation.OpenAI’s move to for-profit wouldn’t eliminate its non-profit entity entirely. The non-profit would own a stake in the…