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In 1972, Petula Clark sang ‘the other man’s grass is always greener’. Decades later, the chartbuster seems to be speaking of OTT and social media platforms that are planning to adopt each other’s business...

Hello, reader. Hallam Bullock here, reporting from London, and today I'm thinking about privacy. Our very own Diamond Naga Siu made her thoughts on the Bevi water dispenser gathering employee data very clear in this...

Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter, there’s been a lot of chatter on the platform about one specific topic: where to go when Twitter dies. That’s primarily due to his decision to fire most of the staff, an...

LLaMA by Meta leaked by an anonymous forum: Questions Arises on MetaHow this leak by 4Chan poses a critical question about superintelligent models.Image generated via Stable DiffusionOnly a few weeks ago Meta announced...

Top Links Developing Accessible Apps with Visual Studio (Dante Gagne) TechBash 2023 Call for Speakers is Open (Jason Gaylord) .NET Monthly Roundup – February 2023 – .NET 8 Preview 1, New Visual Studio features, and...

Facebook was renamed Meta because of Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse. What has been up with that lately? Well, there are rumours that Zuckerberg is quietly but surely “laying off” the metaverse. Only...

Lean in, the most-cited paper of 2022 was not about generative AI – and wasn’t even from a big-tech. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI) and DeepMind, published AlphaFold Protein Structure Database:...

[March 4th, 2023 Corrections/Updates – poLight informed me of some corrections, better figures, and new information that I have added to the section on poLight. Cambridge Mechatronics informed me about their voltage...

The Metaverse was on everyone’s lips in 2022, even though no one can really explain what the heck it is. With the internet zeitgeist now locked on AI chatbots in 2023, Meta appears to be reevaluating the high...

I will soon be the owner of a shiny new Meta Quest 2, as shown here in this screen capture from the Meta website Longtime readers of this blog will know that I have, over the years, developed a well-founded aversion to...

Open Source Data Exploration Tools You Need to Know, GitHub Codespaces and Copilot, and Meta’s New LLM11 Open Source Data Exploration Tools You Need to Know in 2023In this article, we’re going to cover 11 data...

Meta announces a roadmap for its augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) hardware to the employees in Meta’s Reality Labs division on Tuesday. The company is said to release its first pair of smart glasses with...

Following recent moves by OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google to enter the new artificial intelligence technology market, Meta, which has also been involved in artificial intelligence for some time, recently announced that it...

Influencer marketing continues to be incredibly popular among brands. From 2016-2020, the market grew from $1.7 billion to $9.7 billion, and it is expected to see explosive growth to at least $16.4 billion by the end...

Recently, tech giants have been practicing open-source streamlining, and business reduction has been one of the measures besides layoffs. According to Alex Health from MIXED and The Verge, Meta, a major VR company,...

Meta AI has unveiled, LLaMA, a set of foundation language models that range from 7B to 65B parameters.  LLaMA-13B surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-3 (175B) while being over ten times smaller, and LLaMA-65B is comparable to...

Introduction – Combining 2023’s CES and AR/VR/MR As I wrote last time, I met with over 30 companies, about 10 of which twice between CES and SPIE’s AR/VR/MR conferences. Also, since I started publishing articles...

Initially one of the most prolific purveyors of information operations on Facebook, Russian operatives have during the course of the war in Ukraine found themselves taking a “smash-and-grab” approach to gain...