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There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the ability to sing two years…

By 2030, the XR market will no longer stand on its own inside the enterprise. Instead, extended reality will fade into the background and act as embedded infrastructure. Much like cloud or mobile, XR will quietly support daily work rather than announce itself as a separate category. As a result, enterprise buyers will stop judging […]

Every leader wants to know their collaboration tools are “working”. We all want evidence that platforms are boosting productivity, efficiency, and creativity. Otherwise, all the money companies spend on copilots, meeting tools, and chat apps starts to feel pointless. This is where it goes sideways. Managers start watching people instead of work, and platforms like […]

Two years after debuting in Early Access on Steam, VR survival game Bootstrap Island moves to its 1.0 release in March.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, and their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft have reached orbit, and the nosecone has opened.  The crew will spend roughly the next 34 hours to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.   A postlaunch news conference will […]

At 5:24 a.m. EST, The Dragon spacecraft separated from the Falcon 9’s second stage and began flying on its own. The spacecraft is traveling at approximately 17,500 miles per hour (28,200 kilometers per hour). In less than a minute, the Dragon crew spacecraft nosecone open sequence will begin. The spacecraft now is in orbit and […]

Don’t get locked into an ecosystem.

Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file uploaded to VirusTotal, a site cybersecurity researchers like him use to analyze submissions for potential viruses and other types of malicious software, often known as malware. On the surface it seemed…

When ChatGPT vanished from WhatsApp in mid-January, 50 million users lost access overnight. So did businesses that had spent months building customer service workflows around third-party AI chatbots on the platform. Meta’s explanation was straightforward: the WhatsApp Business API wasn’t designed for standalone AI assistants. The company was simply enforcing updated terms it had announced […]

The latest Cisco earnings report makes for remarkably complex reading. Chronciling its Q2 FY 2026 results, the networking and collaboration giant delivered what looked like a triumph in execution. Record revenue of $15.3 billion, up 10 percent year-over-year, and a significant beat on earnings per share. However, the operational narrative was dominated not by steady-state […]

Unhinged chaos sim Wreckin’ Raccoon, nDreams’ answer to games like I Am Cat and Gorilla Tag, has left Early Access for full release on Quest.

Charming clockwork puzzler Tin Hearts: Act 1 arrives on Quest today, bringing its heartfelt story and inventive Lemmings-like gameplay to standalone headsets.

At United XR Europe last year, I had the occasion to try the scent emitter device by Scentient again. Today (with a bit of delay), I’m very happy to tell you about it. Scentient Scentient is a startup that aims to give people that sense of smell in an XR experience. The sense of smell […]

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NASA and SpaceX teams are continuing final preparations on Thursday as the four crew members of Crew-12 follow their own precise checklist of activities before they launch to the International Space Station. Crew-12 is set to lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 5:15 a.m. EST Friday, Feb. 13, […]

NASA and SpaceX continue proceeding toward a launch of Crew-12 to the International Space Station for no earlier than 5:15 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 13.