Meta is planning to lay off employees on Wednesday in the unit of its metaverse-oriented Reality Labs division focused on creating custom silicon, citing sources familiar with the matter. Employees were informed of the layoffs in a post on Meta’s internal discussion forum Workplace on Tuesday. The post said they Read more…
Would people pay nearly $14 a month to use Instagram on their phones without ads? How about nearly $17 a month for Instagram plus Facebook — but on desktop? That is what Meta wants to charge Europeans for monthly subscriptions if they don’t agree to let the company use their Read more…
“Almost 17 million U.S. employees describe themselves as digital nomads,” reports Bloomberg, “more than double the pre-pandemic number, according to MBO Partners, a firm that connects companies with freelance talent.” Bloomberg says one worker sees their lifestyle as less of a vacation and “more about forming a genuine connection with Read more…
ZDNet calls it “a deep meditation on what can ultimately be achieved with computers” and “the single most important unsolved problem in computer science,” with implications for both cryptography and quantum computing. “The question: Does P = NP?” “Now, that effort has enlisted the help of generative AI.” In a Read more…
U2’s inaugural performance at the opening of Las Vegas’s Sphere included a generative AI video collage projected hundreds of feet into the air — showing hundreds of surreal renderings of Elvis Presley. The video collage is the creation of the artist Marco Brambilla, the director of Demolition Man and Kanye Read more…
Next time you try to wipe a smudge off your iPhone screen, take a closer look. See if you can spot one of the two tiny QR codes etched into its glass. Chances are you won’t be able to find them. Both codes are tiny — one is the size Read more…
Microsoft discussed selling its Bing search engine to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default option on the iPhone maker’s devices. Executives from Microsoft met with Apple’s services chief, Eddy Cue, who brokered the current search engine relationship with Alphabet’s Google, to discuss the Read more…