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Apple Vision Pro Hands On: The Opposite of Disappearing
FaceTime would be, in theory, an opportunity to create an extremely human experience in mixed-reality headsets. In my demo, it didn’t achieve this. The internal cameras within the headset are capable of capturing and regurgitating your…
The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea
Over the past decade, there has been an increased number of digital devices in North Korea. Around 50 to 80 percent of adults may now have mobile phones, allowing them to text and call family members. Yet the use of these phones is…
Bankrupt Crypto Companies Are Fighting Over a Dwindling Pot of Money | WIRED
Legal experts, though, say they’re skeptical of FTX’s chances. Marc Powers, adjunct professor of law at Florida International University, who acted as counsel in the liquidation of Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme, says that the…
India’s Tech Obsession May Leave Millions of Workers Without Pay | WIRED
But this is still better than when the internet works at the start of the day but doesn’t at the end. “That means there is no proof we worked the whole day and we risk losing our wages,” Kanal says. “It is insulting.”Often, she says, she…
Spoutible’s Low-Budget, Audacious Quest to Be the Next Twitter
Looking back, I believe I can pinpoint the exact day I loved Twitter most: May 24, 2011. I was in a small Oregon town for work, coping with loneliness and stress in a shabby motel. With a 22-ounce bottle of high-proof beer, I whiled away…
People Let a Startup Put a Brain Implant in Their Skull—for 15 Minutes
The brain shifts in the skull, and so can an implant, Brunner says. A surface array could potentially move around more than one that penetrates the brain. He says even a micrometer shift could change which group of neurons the device is…
The Age of Flames Reaches the US East Coast
Smoke from wildfires in Canada has engulfed the East Coast, cloaking cities in a hazy smog and putting some 100 million people under air quality alerts. More than 400 fires are burning in British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario,…
AI Could Usher in a New Era of Music. Will It Suck?
Michael Sayman has worked at Facebook, Google, Roblox, and Twitter. At 26, the software engineer has already published a memoir, App Kid. But until he began work on his latest project, he’d never built a website. “I made it in five hours…
Apple Ghosts the Generative AI Revolution
After years of anticipation and contributions from thousands of people, Apple Vision Pro made its debut yesterday, promising immersion in apps, games, movies, and the workplace. With more than 20 cameras, sensors, and microphones, two…
Do People Actually Want to Wear a Headset All the Time?
VR headsets are having a moment. And now that Apple is making one, the things might even stick around for a while—assuming enough people actually want to wear them.Apple followed up a week stuffed with virtual reality news—Meta has a new…