New York-based financial services group BlackRock has launched a thematic equity fund aimed at tech companies molding the development of the metaverse. The fund is linked to Morningstar Global Metaverse & Virtual Interaction Select Index, which selects constituents from a
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT have been the tech buzz words of late, and now the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has stated his belief that we’ll all eventually have our own personal AI assistant
MetaNews picks through another week of Metaverse hype with equal amounts of hope and skepticism as we chart a path through difficult waters to our brave new virtual world. Here are the stories that made landfall this week on the
The market can expect to get hold of the much awaited Apple mixed reality headset this year, but the tech giant has shelved its planned follow up product – the Apple Augmented Reality (AR) glasses due to technical challenges. Apple
Parlement Technologies reportedly cut dozens of jobs across the company in December, a move that has cast doubt on the future of its free speech social media network Parler. Around 75% of the employees were sacked between November and December
Apple is projected to release its long awaited extended reality (XR) headset sometime in 2023, which is expected to be their biggest reveal this year. According to Bloomberg, the new AR headset will come equipped with its own operating system,
The European Commission’s move to make traffic intensive online platforms to contribute to the cost of digital infrastructure will include the rise in data volumes used by the metaverse and virtual platforms. This initiative seeks to address a long-standing grievance
Apple is ready to launch its first mixed reality headset after years of development, as the tech giant follows Mark Zuckerberg into the metaverse. Bloomberg reports Apple has been working on the project for years, with plans to launch a
Amazon and Apple were the biggest losers of market cap in 2022, in what seemed a bad year for big tech stocks as concerns grew over potential recession, diluting consumer demand. Also read: What Is a Prompter? Super Prompts Explained
“Right-wing” social media platforms Truth Social and Parler saw a surge in web traffic over the past three months, as major competitor Twitter found it hard to keep its most active users, mainly due to issues of censorship. The total
Honda has announced that it is using advanced virtual reality (VR) technology to develop future products, including the full-electric 2024 Honda Prologue and the 2023 Honda Pilot. The automaker says that VR has become a critical tool for its designers
Apple will soon start to use processors made in America following the opening of an advanced new chip factory in Phoenix, Arizona. Its opening was attended by President Joe Biden and Apple CEO Tim Cook. The factory, which is being
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