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Microsoft’s latest wave of mass layoffs has killed entire teams working on virtual reality and mixed reality projects, effectively ending efforts in the Metaverse space. Microsoft acquired social virtual reality platform AltSpaceVR in 2017, and now it has cut off the entire team, and AltSpaceVR will shut down on March 10. Microsoft laid off the […]

GitHub announced that it will stop supporting Subversion on January 8, 2024. GitHub announced its support for the Subversion version control system on April Fool’s Day in 2010 (it was once regarded as a joke). At that time, the centralized version control system was the mainstream, and the distributed version control system such as Git

People who live under the same roof share more than just a house. Whether it’s family or roommates, the microbes in your body tend to be the same, and the longer you live together, the more similar those microbiomes become. This raises the possibility that diseases associated with a dysfunctional microbiome, including cancer, diabetes and

Last month Google’s two co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, held a meeting with company executives to discuss a rival chatbot, ChatGPT. ChatGPT has the potential to be the first notable threat to Google’s $149 billion search business in decades. Page and Brin, who have rarely returned to the company since taking a break from

CNET suspends publication of AI-generated articles. CNET has used AI tools to generate dozens of articles over the past few months, which went unnoticed until recently. Following criticism, editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo told staff on Friday that the practice would be suspended. “We don’t do it in secret, we do it quietly,” he said. Other sites

Darknet marketplace Solaris was hijacked by a small competitor, Kraken, on January 13, 2023. The Solaris darknet site was redirected to Kraken, and the associated blockchain address did not move. Solaris appeared after the server of Hydra Market, the largest dark web market, was seized and shut down by German police in April last year.

As part of the 40th anniversary celebration of the Apple Lisa computer, Apple released the source code of the Lisa OS version 3.1 operating system through the Computer History Museum, using the Apple Academic License Agreement. Apple released the Apple Lisa on January 19, 1983, a mouse-based GUI commercial computer named after the daughter of

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs on their official blogs. Google has sent emails to affected U.S. employees, but it is expected to take longer in other countries due to local laws and regulations. 12,000 people accounted for 6% of the total number of employees, which is Google’s largest

The number of stars visible to the naked eye is decreasing due to the increase in brightness at night. The researchers analyzed data from footage taken on cloudless and moonless nights by 51,351 Earth at Night project participants around the world between 2011 and 2022. The data came from 19,262 locations worldwide, including 3,699 locations

The mechanism by which social networks reward users for sharing information is a key reason for the spread of disinformation, according to a study published in the journal PNAS. This conclusion negates previous beliefs that false information is rampant because users lack the critical thinking skills to distinguish truth from falsehood, or because political beliefs

According to a study published in JAMA Open Network, more than 70 percent of prescription drugs advertised on television are considered low therapeutic value, meaning they are less effective than drugs already on the market. A possible explanation, according to the study authors, is that drugs with high therapeutic value are recognized and prescribed without

Boston Dynamics has released a new video demonstrating the biped robot Atlas’ ability to grab and lay planks, grab and throw toolboxes on a hypothetical construction site. The public video, excluding footage of Atlas falling and making mistakes, is intended to demonstrate the expansion of Atlas’ capabilities. Boston Dynamics has previously demonstrated Atlas’ ability to

The WSJ reports that Twitter is auctioning off office supplies for its headquarters through Heritage Global Partners. Auctioning office supplies may be one of Twitter’s massive layoffs following Elon Musk’s acquisition and various measures to reduce expenses. Items for the Twitter auction include a neon sign of the Twitter bird logo, which bid $35,500, and