Meta plans to stop supporting its original Quest virtual reality headset after 2024, the company has revealed. The company will continue providing new features for the standalone Quest 1 headset through 2024, but some features will eventually go away, the company said in an email sent to Quest owners.... Read more

The fear is that the sudden spread of Covid through a new population with relatively little prior exposure to the virus will lead to the emergence of a new “supervariant”—one that has the potential to change the face of the pandemic like the Alpha, Delta, and Omicron forms of... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Since CES is owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association, it makes perfect sense that it is focused on consumer tech. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t significant enterprise business takeaways, particularly around artificial intelligence (AI)... Read more

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person’s silhouette. Ars Technica On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person... Read more

Chances are, you use your cell phone more than just about anything else that you own. So it’s worth investing in a model that’s well suited to your needs and isn’t going to be slow and frustrating to use. But that doesn’t mean you have to drop $1,000 or... Read more

By emulating the human ability to forget some of the data, psychological AIs will transform algorithmic accuracy. Source link Read more

SteamDB revealed via Twitter that the PC gaming platform hsd surpassed its milestone of 10 million players in-game concurrently. On the same day (January 8), it also broke its record of most online users at once, with the new record being just over 33 million. Specifically, the concurrent in-game... Read more

Despite being built thousands of years ago, some concrete structures across the world have surprisingly, and literally, stood the test of time. Most notably, Rome’s Pantheon was constructed around 126-128 A.D. — yet its massive, unreinforced concrete dome still majestically anchors the city. A few ancient Roman aqueducts are even... Read more

When a gravitational wave passes through Earth, it causes space itself to stretch in one direction and compress in the other, so the two “arms” of the detector actually grow and shrink by tiny amounts. This means each beam of light travels a slightly different distance, which shows up... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. A director of data analytics is responsible for the data analytics function within an organization. For any sizable enterprise, it is a managerial role, and may or may not report to a higher-up data executive. Likewise, it... Read more