Palmer Luckey clashes with Meta exec over his 2017 firing

Palmer Luckey clashes with Meta exec over his 2017 firing

Palmer Luckey — the Oculus VR headset creator who was controversially fired from Facebook in 2017 after he donated $10,000 to a pro-Donald Trump group — has called on Meta “to make everything public” about the still-murky circumstances behind his exit. Facebook has repeatedly denied that Luckey, who sold Oculus to Meta for $2 billion …

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Meta Quest 4: here’s what we expect

Meta Quest 4: here’s what we expect

Ready for the Meta Quest 4? Considering how big of an upgrade the Quest 3 was when it launched in 2023, Meta’s next release could have amazing new features that end up making it one of the best VR headsets yet. Meta is still probably a couple of years out from releasing the successor to …

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You can now lie down while using a Meta Quest 3 headset

You can now lie down while using a Meta Quest 3 headset

is rolling out the latest update for and, as always, there are some handy features. From now on, whenever you’re livestreaming to the Meta Quest app, the broadcast will continue when you take the headset off. That should help avoid interruptions. There are some -specific upgrades too, including the ability to use an external mic …

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Facebook’s AI failure wiped out Kansas Reflector links. Even Facebook may not know what went wrong. • Kansas Reflector

Facebook’s AI failure wiped out Kansas Reflector links. Even Facebook may not know what went wrong. • Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Facebook’s unrefined artificial intelligence misclassified a Kansas Reflector article about climate change as a security risk, and in a cascade of failures blocked the domains of news sites that published the article, according to technology experts interviewed for this story and Facebook’s public statements. The assessment is consistent with an internal review by …

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Meta and Google announce new in-house AI chips, creating a ‘trillion-dollar question’ for Nvidia

Meta and Google announce new in-house AI chips, creating a ‘trillion-dollar question’ for Nvidia

Hardware is emerging as a key AI growth area. For Big Tech companies with the money and talent to do so, developing in-house chips helps reduce dependence on outside designers such as Nvidia and Intel while also allowing firms to tailor their hardware specifically to their own AI models, boosting performance and saving on energy …

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Bitkraft Raises Third Interactive Fund, Diffuse Text-to-Video, AI Voice Cloning

Bitkraft Raises Third Interactive Fund, Diffuse Text-to-Video, AI Voice Cloning

SUQIAN, CHINA – MARCH 30, 2024 – Illustration OpenAI releases Voice Engine, a speech model, Suqian, … [+] Jiangsu province, China, March 30, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty Images Chat GPT’s Voice Cloning AI App Is Too Dangerous to Release. OpenAI’s Voice Engine is an AI …

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