Tencent, the leading player in the global video game business, will become the exclusive distributor in China of new, lower-cost virtual reality (VR) helmets from the American Meta, writes the Wall Street Journal. Tencent will begin selling helmets at the end of 2024, according to a preliminary...

Elon Musk's xAI has revealed Grok, a language model that is linked to the social network X (previously Twitter). Grok's real-time access to X's data offers it a "fundamental advantage" over other AI models, according to xAI. Elon Musk's startup xAI revealed Grok, a language model (chatbot) tied to...

According to William Gerstenmaier, vice president of flight safety at US private aerospace business SpaceX, the company intends to fly 144 launch vehicles into orbit in 2024. "We want to increase the frequency of launches to 12 per month or 144 launches (for the year) - that's our goal,"...

Over half a billion inexpensive electrical items were purchased by British customers in 2022, or one every 16 seconds on average. 471 million of these devices were disposed of in the nation's landfills at the end of the year, writes the British research group Material Focus in its new study for the...

Prada, a prestigious fashion house, will contribute to the creation of space suits for the 2025 Moon mission, so NASA astronauts will fly in style. The outfits will be created by the Italian fashion firm in collaboration with Axiom Space, another private business.   Axiom stated in a press...

According to Sankei, the robot merely loads assembled cars onto its platform and transports them to a transloading location for delivery to dealers. Toyota Motor Corporation has begun to use cargo robots for the delivery of freshly manufactured and finished passenger automobiles. According to the...

The social media did not define precisely what will be regarded as biometrics. With users' permission, social network X (formerly known as Twitter) will start collecting their biometric data and employment history, wrote the company on the website. According to the magazine, "With your consent,...

Despite concerns that have prompted employers like Microsoft and Google to limit its usage, a Reuters/Ipsos poll indicated that many workers across the U.S. are using ChatGPT to assist with basic tasks.   Companies all over the world are debating how to effectively utilise ChatGPT, a chatbot...

China intends to limit the use of facial recognition technology by enterprises in favour of non-biometric personal identification techniques, according to draft regulations from the Cyberspace Administration published on Tuesday.   The proposed guideline stipulates that any use of facial...