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Honey, wake up — a new Quest is coming | Kaser Focus
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. I’m back from GamesBeat Summit only a few days and Meta decides to not only drop a new headset — the Quest 3 — on me but also several... Read more
Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. Here’s why
Photo Illustration by Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images No wonder Google is having trouble keeping up with policing its app store. Since Monday, researchers have reported that hundreds of Android apps and Chrome extensions with millions of installs from the company’s official marketplaces have included functions for snooping... Read more
Hybrid Toyota Drove in Electric Mode for 100 Hours Nonstop
Electric cars have one major drawback: Who wants to stop to charge up while on a long road trip? This week, a Toyota RAV4 Prime managed to go more than 1,200 miles in electric mode without stopping to recharge, announced Electreon, an electric-roadway startup. But it wasn’t due to... Read more
The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
Digital rights activists working outside the country to support Iran say the US government’s support of circumvention tools has been valuable. “It’s certainly true that they are by far providing the highest amount of support for the main VPNs used in Iran,” says Reza Ghazinouri, a strategic adviser at... Read more
Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 partners with Qualcomm, HTC, Mira, Interverse and Croquet
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Seeking partners for its blockchain tech for the open metaverse, Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 has teamed up with five tech companies. Stephenson, the author of Snow Crash and the person... Read more
Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator
Enlarge / An armed unmanned aerial vehicle on runway, but orange. Getty Images Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force had run a simulation in which an AI-controlled drone “went rogue” and “killed the operator because that person... Read more
AI Poses Major Societal Risks, Says Statement Signed by Industry Leaders
Artificial intelligence industry leaders are concerned about the potential threats advanced AI systems pose to humanity. On Tuesday, several industry leaders like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, along with other scientists and notable figures signed a statement warning of the risks of AI.  The curt,... Read more
Robert Asprin Was One of Sci-Fi’s Most Colorful Characters
Robert Asprin was a fantasy and science fiction author best known for his humorous Myth Adventures novels, and for co-editing the groundbreaking Thieves’ World series of shared-world anthologies. Author and editor Bill Fawcett first met Asprin at a tabletop gaming convention in 1980. “He became quite a significant figure... Read more
Apple casts big shadow over the XR industry | The DeanBeat
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. During the Augmented World Expo this week, the crowds were back at one of the big Silicon Valley events where the cognoscenti of the metaverse, gaming and XR industries... Read more
Senate Passes Debt Ceiling Deal: Here’s What It Means for Your Student Loans
The Senate voted to pass the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling plan Thursday evening to keep the country from a default crisis. This comes a day after the US House of Representatives passed the bill with bipartisan support. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill Friday evening.  While the deal... Read more