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Meta Shuts Down Horizon Worlds: A $50 Billion Lesson on the Metaverse Dream and Virtual Reality's Future
On March 19, 2026, Meta sent an email to Horizon Worlds users — a virtual reality platform once heralded as the cornerstone of the metaverse — announcing that the service would be removed from the Quest Store on March 31…
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DarkSword: When iPhone attack weapon exposes hundreds of millions of devices publicly on the internet
For many years, iPhone hacking techniques have been compared by cybersecurity experts to rare animals — appearing extremely infrequently, deployed carefully against a select few carefully chosen targets, and almost never…
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NASA Changes Asteroid's Orbit Around Sun for First Time Using Spacecraft
The DART mission's impact did more than shift the asteroid's local orbit; it fundamentally altered the path of the entire system around the Sun. This breakthrough marks a critical milestone in humanity's ability to manip…
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Block Lays Off 40% of Staff, CEO Jack Dorsey Says AI Has Changed How Companies Are Built
Block, the fintech conglomerate founded by Jack Dorsey, will cut nearly half of its workforce—over 4,000 jobs from a total of 10,000 employees.…
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NASA Confirms Mike Fincke as Astronaut Evacuated from ISS for Medical Reasons
NASA has just revealed the identity of the astronaut forced to prematurely end the Crew-11 mission on the International Space Station (ISS): it is Mike Fincke.…
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AI 'Nudification' Apps Explode, Silicon Valley Faces Global Outcry
xAI's Grok chatbot—Elon Musk's AI company—generated 3 million pornographic images within just 11 days of launching its image editing feature in December. Among these were over 20,000 images of children.…
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Scientists discover gene that helps corn survive cold, marking breakthrough for agriculture
Scientists have discovered a natural gene variant that allows corn to better withstand low temperatures, a finding that could expand where the staple crop can be grown.…
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Panasonic to exit TV manufacturing, outsourcing production to China's Skyworth
Panasonic partners with Skyworth to exit TV manufacturing Panasonic has officially ceased manufacturing its own televisions, announcing that Chinese firm Skyworth will take over the production, marketing, and sales of Pa…
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Samsung adds Perplexity AI to Galaxy phones despite copyright infringement controversy
Samsung to Integrate Perplexity AI Into Upcoming Flagship Devices Samsung Electronics will integrate the Perplexity AI search engine into its upcoming flagship devices, expanding its Galaxy AI platform to support multipl…
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New research reveals lithium storage mechanism that could boost battery capacity
A new scientific study has detailed the lithium storage mechanism of a novel conductive polymer, PBFDO, which researchers say achieved a reversible capacity of 230.4 mAh g−1.…
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Google to remove Gmail feature that merges secondary inboxes into one view
Google to Phase Out Gmailify and POP Access, Impacting Third-Party Email Integration Google is ending support for two long-standing features that allow users to manage external email accounts through Gmail, a move that w…
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US allies challenge SpaceX dominance with push for independent space access
A growing number of long-standing U.S. allies are investing heavily in domestic space programs to achieve sovereign access to orbit, seeking to reduce their dependence on American and Chinese launch dominance.…
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Santa Monica deploys AI cameras to ticket drivers illegally parked in bike lanes
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Santa Monica is set to become the first city in the United States to deploy artificial intelligence on municipal vehicles to detect bike lane violations starting this April.…
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Scientific breakthrough: Aluminum could replace costly precious metals in industrial catalysts
LONDON — Scientists have discovered a new chemical property of aluminum that could allow the metal to serve as a low-cost alternative to expensive precious metals in industrial applications.…
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ICE expands nationwide legal infrastructure to ramp up deportations across the US
WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is launching a massive $75 billion expansion over the next four years to scale up operations across the country.…
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India plans massive 'data city' to fuel its global AI ambitions
India is developing a massive "data city" in Visakhapatnam to bridge the artificial intelligence gap with the United States and China.…
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Airbnb deepens AI integration to build personalized travel assistants
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced plans to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) across the company’s platform to overhaul how users search for travel and how hosts manage their properties.…