Meta’s Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division’s metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The layoffs are apparently a side effect of Meta’s AI ambitions, which are pulling focus away from its virtual reality division. According to the Times, Meta’s […]
DC fast-charging infrastructure company Francis Energy has signed up for Tesla’s Supercharger for Business program, and its first site, located in Oklahoma, is set to officially launch tomorrow.
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Tesla has updated its online configurator with a new solar panel heavily emphasizing its US manufacturing at Gigafactory New York. It’s a surprising new product launch for a business that Tesla has seemingly been dismantling for the last two years.
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Microsoft is preparing to retire Edge Collections, the feature many users relied on to organize webpages, notes, and research. With warnings now live in Edge, fans of the tool may need to export their data soon.
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The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating nonconsensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as reported by the BBC. “The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create – or request the creation […]
It’s not a Hyundai, BMW, or Rimac, but it uses components from all three. Ceer is a new EV brand, and its first vehicle was just spotted out in public with a design that’s… unique, to say the least.
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Anthropic wants to expand Claude’s AI agent capabilities and take advantage of the growing hype around Claude Code – and it’s doing it with a brand-new feature released Monday, dubbed “Claude Cowork.” “Cowork can take on many of the same tasks that Claude Code can handle, but in a more approachable form for non-coding tasks,” […]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is making kids’ online safety a cornerstone of her administration, and she’s eyeing a platform that has often flown under the radar: Roblox. As progress in Congress has stagnated, states have become the primary drivers of internet reforms meant to protect kids, including age verification laws and new requirements for […]
This week’s starting Green Deals are headlined by the Bluetti New Year power station sale with up to 53% discounts alongside exclusive bonus savings starting from $119, with options like the new Elite 400 Portable Power Station back at its $1,221 low, …
The path forward for the Democratic party after its 2024 defeat includes less tech influence and more populist policies, according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Warren delivered this message in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Monday, where she charted a vision for the future of a party that’s still […]