Apple continues its plans to beef up virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) features on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The company has filed for a patent for “methods for interacting with virtual controls and/or an affordance for moving virtual objects in virtual environments.”In the patent filing, Apple notes that the development of computer systems for augmented reality has increased signi...

The South Korean stock market's reliance on two chip heavyweights, SK Hynix Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., has long been flagged as a risk, and the market was recently rocked by volatility after the Iran war.Leveraged exchanged-traded funds tied to SK Hynix and Samsung, which hold a combined $3.3 billion in assets, are believed to be contributing to the market's volatility due to their daily...

The article argues that Meta’s planned “Name Tag” feature for Ray-Ban smart glasses would turn consumer eyewear into a real-time facial recognition device. According to reports cited by the author, the system would allow wearers to identify strangers in public by matching their faces to Facebook and Instagram profiles. In this view, the glasses are only the hardware layer; the real power com...

Deloitte analysis shows that increasing IT, data and AI investments can nearly double earnings per share, unlocking a potentially huge competitive advantage.Business leaders today face mounting pressure to make faster, smarter technology decisions. Questions around how much to increase IT budgets, how quickly to scale AI, and how deeply to invest in data transformation are becoming central to b...

Transcription and note-taking has emerged as one of the prime use cases for wearable gadgets as AI models advance voice-to-text tech. We’re even seeing some differentiation, with startups like Plaud and Pocket specializing on products that can record and summarize meetings. Others like Friend, Omi, and Amazon-owned Bee are exploring form factors like pendants and wristbands to give people a wa...

Tens of thousands of vending machines are vanishing from Japan, as machines that once symbolised the nation’s love of innovation are shunned in a climate of rising inflation and deepening labour shortages. The nation’s stock of 2.2mn drinks vending machines is down 23 per cent from its bubble-era peak in 1985, according to the Japan Vending System Manufacturers Association. The faltering econ...

Feeding more optical signals into one fiber will reduce latency.As the bandwidth and power demands of AI data centers necessitate a transition from electrical to optical scaleup networking, one component has been conspicuously absent from the co-packaged optics arsenal: the laser itself. That’s no longer the case. Last month, Tower Semiconductor and Scintil Photonics announced production of th...

Less than four years after the release of ChatGPT marked the beginning of the AI era, artificial intelligence has become an integral part of the content marketing toolkit. From drafting text and generating visuals to analyzing campaign performance, AI-powered tools are being used for many day-to-day tasks, ideally helping teams to save time on routine tasks and make time for creative and strate...

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