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If there’s one person responsible for the modern resurgence of interest in virtual reality, it's Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. And even he appears to be blown away by the upcoming Apple Reality Pro VR headset.Luckey was the wunderkind mastermind behind the original Oculus Rift VR hardware, bringing it to market via crowdfunding efforts in 2012. Its success (and potential) would see it fall under the radar of Mark Zuckerberg’s then-Facebook company, which purchased Oculus in 2014. Though Luckey would leave the company to…

Deepdub, a localization company that employs generative AI for its operations, has secured the Motion Picture Association’s Trusted Partner Network (TPN) certification for its work with pre-release theatrical content. This certification verifies that the company has the security, tech, and infrastructure to meet Hollywood standards. Deepdub uses “proprietary generative AI technology” to speedily and cost-effectively deliver high-quality localization work. As stated by the company, AI is used in every step of its…

Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: May 10, 2023, 15:29 ISTBYD Seal EV (Photo: IANS)BYD replaced its line-up of the model with five new versions which includes a rear-wheel drive Seal Champion Edition with a 550 km range per chargeBYD Co Ltd, on Wednesday cut the starting price of its best-selling Seal sedan by 10%, as the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant seeks to extend its lead in the world’s largest auto market with lower-priced products.The company replaced its line-up of the model with five new versions. That…

Several weeks ago, as Fox News lawyers prepared for a courtroom showdown with Dominion Voting Systems, they presented Tucker Carlson with what they thought was good news: They had persuaded the court to redact from a legal filing the time he called a senior Fox News executive the c-word, according to people familiar with the matter.  Mr. Carlson, Fox News’s most-watched prime-time host, wasn’t impressed. He told his colleagues that he wanted the world to know what he had said about the executive in a…

"Coles team members are not impacted by this partnership and there is a clear distinction between the roles of Coles team members and third-party courier pickers," the spokeswoman said.LoadingUber has long argued that its workers value the flexibility of choosing their own hours and receive fair pay.But Josh Cullinan, secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, said the pact was “ringing alarm bells” and would worry Coles staff.“Using Uber in the way that’s being described would appear to fundamentally undermine…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Seismic arrays deployed in California's Long Beach and Seal Beach areas detected more than a thousand tiny earthquakes over eight months, many of them located at surprisingly shallow depths of less than two kilometers below the surface. The findings, reported in Seismological Research Letters…

Giant African pouched rats are as clever as they are cute. Trained them to wear little backpacks, they can rescue people from disaster areas in return for a treat.They can also find landmines that need disarming, sniff out tuberculosis, and have even been recruited in the fight against wildlife poaching.So handy are these intelligent mammals, we can't seem to breed enough of them. It's not just a problem with demand – the supply is also mysteriously limited.While many fellow rodents are notorious for their ability to…

Apple published a new support document on March 2, offering a service to send off your Apple Watch Ultra to have it checked to see if its Depth and Water seals are working properly.If you bought one to go diving into the depths with, the document (opens in new tab) offers a link where you can arrange to have your Watch sent off, with a replacement sent to you while it's being checked in the interim.This can be very useful for anyone who thinks that the sensor has been damaged after hitting the Watch against a rock for…

Mummified elephant seal remains. Credit: Brenda Hall Studying the response of Antarctic ice sheets to past warming episodes is essential to understand how they may respond to the present warming climate, as their melting and collapse can contribute to global sea level rise. Detailed records of past ocean temperatures close to the continent are rare, but clues to how ice sheets and sea ice responded to global conditions in the…

A team of researchers has developed a new material that’s not only elastic, but is impervious to gases and liquids – something that this kind of material is usually bad at. The material could be useful for making flexible batteries or wearable electronics.Designing materials often requires trade-offs between certain properties. If you want something that’s going to keep gases and liquids out, then you’ll want a hard, stiff material. If on the other hand you need something with a bit of flexibility, then you’ll have to…