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Nov 4, 2021
Meta Offered a Glimpse into the XR R&D That’s Costing It Billions
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
During the Connect 2021 conference last week, Meta Reality Labs’ Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, offered a high-level overview of some of the R&D that’s behind the company’s multi-billion dollar push into XR and the metaverse.
Michael Abrash leads the team at Meta Reality Labs Research which has been tasked with researching technologies that the company believes could be foundational to XR and the metaverse decades in the future. At Connect 2,021 Abrash shared some of the group’s very latest work.
Meta’s Codec Avatar project aims to achieve a system capable of capturing and representing photorealistic avatars for use in XR. A major challenge beyond simply ‘scanning’ a person’s body is getting it to then move in realistic ways—not to mention making the whole system capable of running in real-time so that the avatar can be used in an interactive context.
Nov 4, 2021
The data center of the future is made of algae bricks and runs on hydrogen fuel cells
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: computing, futurism
Inside Microsoft’s efforts to build a low-impact data center (because it’s building almost 100 a year).
Nov 4, 2021
Velocity raises $17M to spin up ‘production-like’ environments for software development
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Velocity, a startup developing a platform that allows developers to test and debug apps prior to production, has raised $17 million.
Nov 3, 2021
Virgin births spotted among the endangered California Condors
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
How is this explained?
The eggs of these two condors must have been fertilized on their own without the involvement of sperm. Is such a thing even possible? Scientists do think it is possible and this strange process is called Parthenogenesis.
Nov 2, 2021
Real Lab Grown Meat is Here! — Buying Synthetic Meat TODAY
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Lab Grown Meat is finally here, and you’re able to buy it yourself to finally give it a try. The US Startup “Eat Just” released their cultured chicken nuggets to select store shelves in 2021 for everyone to try out.
Real Lab Grown Meat is finally here. Although currently, in a rather expensive fashion. Many food companies are now trying to give producing clean meats a try on their own.
Josh Tetrick new cultured meat company called Eat Just is the first company to sell cultured meats. Unlike Beyond Meats or Impossible Foods plant-based foods, their foods are actually made from animal cells and thus taste exactly the same as regular meat. But of course without the ethical and environmental concerns.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 What is “Cultured Meat”?
01:42 How “Eat Just” makes their Products.
03:41 Problems with Cultured Meats.
05:51 The future of consuming Meat.
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Nov 2, 2021
New ‘Trojan Source’ Technique Lets Hackers Hide Vulnerabilities in Source Code
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
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Nov 1, 2021
Gravitas: Wikipedia bans Chinese editors for ‘manipulation’
Posted by Raphael Ramos in category: futurism
Wikipedia has banned 7 Chinese ‘editors’ for manipulating information critical of China. The move has raised questions on the credibility of Wikipedia. How reliable is it? How easy is it to manipulate information? Palki Sharma has a report.
#Wikipedia #China #Gravitas.
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