We may not be using the M word much these days, but the race to build an interconnected avatar-driven virtual world didn’t take the last year off. The metaverse, a tech buzzword sandwiched in between the hype eras

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In March 2008, a roboticist in winter wear gave Big Dog a big kick fhttps://youtu.be/W1czBcnX1Ww?si=3-qFm7oneOOZG4xc&t=34or the camera. The buzzing DARPA-funded robot stumbled, but quickly regained its

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Every company or organization putting out an AI model has to make a decision on what, if any, boundaries to set on what it will and won’t discuss. Goody-2 takes this quest for ethics to an extreme by declining to

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The startup that develops the phone app for casino resort giant WinStar has secured an exposed database that was spilling customers’ private information to the open web. Oklahoma-based WinStar bills itself as the

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Three students share the grand prize for using artificial intelligence (AI) to translate Pompeii scrolls found by an eighteenth-century Italian farmer. The $700,000 Vesuvius Challenge grand prize was awarded by an

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1X Technologies has confirmed a breakthrough in teaching skills to its human-like (android) robots. The company announced that its robot named EVE can now take more actions thanks to special neural networks, which

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Xbox has announced the games available in the upcoming Free Play Days, which is on right now — until 11.59 pm PDT on Sunday, 11 February. Xbox Free Play Days are recurring events where subscribers of Xbox GamePass

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Oregon may soon become the latest state to pass right-to-repair legislation. Last month, Google lent its support in an open letter, calling Senate Bill 1596 “a compelling model for other states to follow.” The bill,

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Twitter/X alternative Bluesky is gearing up for one of the biggest weekends in social media with the launch of custom feeds prepped for Super Bowl fans. One feed focuses on conversations around the big game itself

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We’ve finally had our mittens on Apple’s face-wearable computer. And, what can we say, it’s pretty astonishing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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