TECH

Generative AI, Flexible Batteries, Metaverse for Mental Health, More on WEF’s List of Emerging Technologies of 2023

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[ad_1] A new type of AI capable of generating new and original content, designer phages, flexible batteries and sustainable aviation fuel are among the technologies poised to have the most positive impact on the world in the next 3-5 years, the WEF said on Monday. Listing the top ten such emerging technologies, the WEF said … Read more

Meta Challenges Apple with Launch of Quest+ VR Subscription Service

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[ad_1] Last Updated: June 27, 2023, 03:17 IST United States of America (USA) AI meets VR to keep Holocaust memory alive. (Credits: AFP) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, in a broadcast channel on social media app Instagram, said the Meta Quest+ subscription will be available from Monday Meta Platforms on Monday launched Meta Quest+, a subscription-based … Read more

FTX Says Banks Earlier Raised Questions About FTX-Affiliated Hedge Fund’s Wire Activity

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[ad_1] Certain banks working with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s trading firm Alameda Research raised questions about the firm’s wire activity as early as 2020, according to a report released by FTX on Monday. Some banks began rejecting wires to or from Alameda the same year that the cryptocurrency exchange scrambled to access the US banking … Read more

Apple-Broadcom Challenge to Caltech Patents Declined by US Supreme Court

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[ad_1] The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Apple and Broadcom to revive their challenges to Caltech data-transmission patents in a patent infringement case in which the university’s earlier $1.1 billion (nearly Rs. 9,000 crore) jury verdict against the companies was thrown out. The justices turned away an appeal by Apple … Read more

Meta Launches Subscription-Based Service Meta Quest+ for VR Headsets

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[ad_1] Meta Platforms on Monday launched Meta Quest+, a subscription-based service for its virtual reality (VR) headsets to shape a nascent but high-investment market. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, in a broadcast channel on social media app Instagram, said the Meta Quest+ subscription will be available from Monday at $7.99 (nearly Rs. 655) per month, or … Read more

Google Said to Have Urged Supreme Court to Quash Android Antitrust Directives

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[ad_1] Google has urged India’s Supreme Court to quash antitrust directives against it for abuse of the Android market, two sources said, as its presses its legal battle against the competition watchdog in one of its most important markets. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in October that Google, whose Android mobile operating system … Read more