Xreal’s Air 2 glasses put a big screen on your face and ship in the US next month
The Air 2 glasses in their graphite and red models. | Image: Xreal Xreal is opening preorders for its latest generation of augmented reality glasses, the Xreal Air 2 and…
Mario Wonder’s online mode is opening my mind to tricks and secrets
Image: Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s online multiplayer keeps making me think of Elden Ring. Nintendo’s latest Super Mario game has a clever online multiplayer mode. When you connect online,…
Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging
Texts is a messaging app… for all your messaging apps. | Image: Texts Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties,…
Workers training AI demand protections from Congress
Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images Data workers urged lawmakers to protect their rights ahead of a Senate meeting with artificial intelligence leaders on Tuesday. In a letter addressed…
Spotify’s paid subscribers grow to 226 million amidst price increases
The number of people paying for Spotify Premium rose three percent to 226 million on a quarterly basis as the streaming service announced price increases across the US and several…
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sacks Talk World War 3
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sacks had a Twitter Space discuss how the continuing Russia, Ukraine war and the Hamas-Israel war could expand into larger wars and even something…
US Retail Theft is About $95 Billion and California Leads With $7.8 Billion
Capital One reports that US Stores lost an estimated $86.6 billion to retail theft in 2022 and projections indicate that in 2025, retail theft may cost stores over $115 billion.…
NASA wants the Voyagers to age gracefully, so it’s time for a software patch
Enlarge / The Voyager 2 spacecraft before its launch in 1977. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Forty-six years in deep space have taken their toll on NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Their antiquated computers…
State Channels And Their Growing Role In Cross-Chain Trading
State channels have emerged as one of the most important blockchain scaling technologies. They make it possible to reduce the data that’s processed by the blockchain mainnet and can therefore…
Massive facial recognition search engine now blocks searches for children’s faces
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge PimEyes, a public search engine that uses facial recognition to match online photos of people, has banned searches of minors over concerns it endangers…