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Today is Sunday, which means it’s time for my little weekly review. However, since things were a little quiet around Christmas, there isn’t really any news that we can revisit here. Instead, I’d like to take a look at what we can hopefully expect in early 2026. Now that the new Hue Flux light strips…
Der Beitrag Instead of my Hue-weekly: Hue Flux connectors in a video erschien zuerst auf Hueblog.com.
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It’s been a busy and productive year here at MIT Technology Review. We published magazine issues on power, creativity, innovation, bodies, relationships, and security. We hosted 14 exclusive virtual conversations with our editors and outside experts in our subscriber-only series, Roundtables, and held two events on MIT’s campus. And we published hundreds of articles online,…
It’s getting harder to beat the heat. During the summer of 2025, heat waves knocked out power grids in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Global warming means more people need air-conditioning, which requires more power and strains grids. But a millennia-old idea (plus 21st-century tech) might offer an answer: radiative cooling. Paints, coatings,…
If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that the AI hype train is showing no signs of slowing. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, DeepSeek had yet to turn the entire industry on its head, Meta was better known for trying (and failing) to make the metaverse…
In April 2025, Ronald Deibert left all electronic devices at home in Toronto and boarded a plane. When he landed in Illinois, he took a taxi to a mall and headed directly to the Apple Store to purchase a new laptop and iPhone. He’d wanted to keep the risk of having his personal devices confiscated…
Climate news hasn’t been great in 2025. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit record highs (again). This year is set to be either the second or third warmest on record. Climate-fueled disasters like wildfires in California and flooding in Indonesia and Pakistan devastated communities and caused billions in damage. In addition to these worrying indicators of our…
And finally, here are UploadVR’s Best of VR 2025 Awards, featuring our picks for Game of the Year, New Hardware, and Most Anticipated.
Find all of our winners here.
MR Clean is the latest game from Smash Drums’ developer, and it could be the PowerWash Simulator of mixed reality.
It has come to that time of the year when I look back at what happened in the past months, and then I wish you the best for the Winter Holidays… XR in 2025 and beyond This year has been pretty weird for all of us in the XR field. There has been positive news, […]
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At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining of the uterus and then grips tight, burrowing in as the first tendrils of a future placenta appear. This is implantation—the moment that pregnancy officially begins. Only none of it is happening inside a…
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.” Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language model, GPT-5, to find solutions to 10 unsolved problems in…
I used the last few days for a short break before Christmas. With temperatures above 10 degrees, it wasn’t really wintery, but that’s set to change a little in the coming days, at least here in Germany. It’s already a little more wintery in the Philips Hue app. The eight Christmas scenes we’ve known for…
Der Beitrag Winter Whispers: New winter scenes in the Philips Hue app erschien zuerst auf Hueblog.com.
StretchSense and its partners are advancing XR training with a cohesive technology stack that blends precision hand-tracking, haptic feedback, developer-ready tools, and platform partnerships with vendors such as SkillsVR. After eight years of leadership in film and gaming motion capture, the company is now translating its input expertise into enterprise-grade learning that is faster, more […]
TikTok is looking to get into the spirit of the season.
Kicking off our first round of 2025 awards, we’re starting with our favorite games on Quest, PC VR, PlayStation VR2, and Apple Vision Pro.
At UnitedXR Europe, I couldn’t miss visiting the booth of one of the most futuristic companies in our field: XPANCEO, which is working on smart contact lenses. As usual, it has been a pretty cyberpunk experience… XPANCEO XPANCEO is a startup based in Dubai that makes smart contact lenses. I’ve already talked about it on […]
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As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, and will be accompanied by ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie […]
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The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still. Ash from nearby Mount Longonot, which erupted as recently as the 1860s, remains in the ground. Obsidian caves and jagged stone towers preside over the steam that spurts out of fissures in the soil and…
At some point next month, a handful of volunteers will be injected with two experimental gene therapies as part of an unusual clinical trial. The drugs are potential longevity therapies, says Ivan Morgunov, the CEO of Unlimited Bio, the company behind the trial. His long-term goal: to achieve radical human life extension. The 12 to…