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“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly “superhuman” systems, while a separate faction, led by policy organizations…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis Sometime in the late 2000s, six-year-old Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car in Thailand when she saw a…

The app’s China-based version highlights Douyin Pay as a key transaction option, and Bloomberg reports that a similar feature may be coming to the U.S.

Brands and marketers may need to reconsider what counts as engagement right now in order to ensure accurate campaign reach and audience interest.

We went hands-on with Fast Travel Games’ Payday: Aces High, and we think it could be the next go-to VR shooter to play with friends.

It looks as though Valve is actually gearing up to release Steam Frame, as user setup videos have leaked showing off unboxing and first-time user experience with Valve’s first standalone VR headset. As first reported by Steam Hardware Updates on X, the ARM Steam Client got an update this week that contained a number of […]

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XREAL today announced that XREAL AURA, the first AR glasses running Google’s Android XR operating system, has now surpassed 10,000 global reservations. Xreal says the reservation milestone for the company’s latest flagship AR glasses has shown “strong early demand across consumers, developers, and enterprise customers,” as the initial $99 reservation offer for a $199 launch […]

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On Tuesday, Aug. 25, NASA flight engineer Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) flight engineer Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk to finish replacing the space?to?ground antenna on the International Space Station. The pair began the work on Aug. 18.

It’s worse than you think.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight.…

Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-­mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger. Online, she…

The app is offering creators the opportunity to generate summaries of themselves using artificial intelligence-powered tools.

Platform owner Elon Musk voiced a personal dislike of director Christopher Nolan’s recent film and asked creators to reinterpret the story using artificial intelligence.

VR co-op JRPG Knights of Fiona will launch “free-to-start” on Quest and PC VR, with the game’s story and other features included in an optional paid Story Pass.

Roguelike VR FPS The Light Brigade Update 5.0 – The Definitive Edition is its final content update, available now on Quest and Steam.

I realized I never told you about a very interesting startup I met in May at the VR/AR Expo China in Shanghai: it is called Immersix and is bringing a slew of innovations to the eye-tracking field. Immersix and its retina tracking Immersix is a Western startup focused on building eye-tracking solutions for XR. Its […]

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Pico’s Vision Pro competitor is set to debut at a special event in Beijing early next month, which is now officially named Pico Space Pro. As first reported by Chinese outlet Nweon, Pico Space Pro is suspected to be the company’s Project Swan standalone VR headset, which the company first teased in March. While Pico […]

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The Expedition 75 crew members cleaned up on Wednesday after a spacewalk that saw two astronauts uninstall an antenna outside the International Space Station. The lab residents also continued their microgravity research exploring the circulatory system, studying artificial intelligence, and photographing the Earth. Flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European […]

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at __ p.m. EDT.