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Mark Zuckerberg is betting the company’s future on the metaverse . But internal documents show that the transition was plagued by technical glitches, a lack of response from users and a lack of clarity on how to succeed. The company’s flagship consumer-oriented metaverse, Horizon Worlds, has fewer than 200,000 users, according to internal documents. Most […]

The world’s largest astronomical digital camera was unveiled at the US Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera is 1.65 meters tall and has 3.2 billion pixels. Over the next decade, it will help scientists study billions of galaxies to better reveal the nature of dark matter. As part of

The equivalence principle is an important theory in Einstein’s general theory of relativity. In a gravitational field with the same acceleration, the gravitational mass and inertial mass are equal. Equivalence principle includes weak equivalence principle and strong equivalence principle. Weak equivalence means that the observer cannot distinguish the inertial force produced by acceleration or the

Nikkei reports (paywall) that Apple has frozen plans to use YMTC flash memory chips in its products. Apple has completed certification to use YMTC’s 128-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips in iPhones before the U.S. announced new chip export restrictions. YMTC’s 3D NAND is currently the most advanced flash memory chip in China, but it

The impact of the US tightening export restrictions on cutting-edge semiconductor technologies to China is increasingly affecting related companies. Applied Materials, a large manufacturing facility, lowered its results for the August-October 2022 period. According to the release data of American Applied Materials, the original sales forecast from August to October was about 6.65 billion US

The Danish artist group Computer Lars and the non-profit art technology organization MindFuture Foundation established The Synthetic Party in May this year, which, as the name suggests, advocates the harmonious coexistence of humans and AI. The party is trying to win a seat in November’s parliamentary elections. The public face and nominal leader of the

The Google Pixel 7 series is the first Android smartphone to only support 64-bit apps . This means that old 32-bit apps cannot be installed on the phone. As early as 2017, when Apple released iOS 11, it required that all apps must be 64-bit, and Google also required all apps in the Google Play

Users reported via social media that searching Google for phrases such as “how many emojis on ios” or “how many emojis on apple” or “how many emojis on windows” returned the error message – “Sorry, the system is processing your An internal server error occurred while requesting. Our engineers have been notified and are working

Maintaining the Starlink terminal in Ukraine costs nearly $20 million a month, and SpaceX can’t fund the service indefinitely, Elon Musk said. Service in Ukraine has cost SpaceX $80 million, Musk said, and that figure will exceed $100 million by the end of the year. He said in a series of tweets on Friday that

Earlier this month, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft completed the Crew-5 mission, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station. Since 2020, including demonstration flights and two private spaceflights—Inspiration4 and Axiom-1, Crew Dragon has put 30 astronauts into orbit , more than all of the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft since 2003 and more than The total number

Propublica’s investigation revealed an underground bank operating in North America and Asia , laundering the proceeds of Mexican drug lords’ drug trafficking in the United States, and helping Chinese billionaires obtain US dollars that can be used in the United States to buy real estate or pay for American college fees. Mexican drug lords supply

The Apollo missions found that the moon was moving 3.8 centimeters away from Earth every year. If you go back at the current rate of the moon’s receding, you will eventually infer that the earth and the moon were together about 1.5 billion years ago. However, the moon was formed about 4.5 billion years ago,

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that 800,000 brain cells living in a petri dish can perform goal-directed tasks . They played the simple computer game ping pong. The research paper was published in the journal Neuron. To conduct the experiment, the team of scientists collected mouse cells derived from embryonic brains and some