Texas wins round against Google as antitrust lawsuit returned to Lone Star state
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas won the latest round in its antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet's Google on Monday as a U.S. judicial
2023-06-06 03:26
Apple launches Vision Pro, a VR headset it hopes will be most important product since iPhone
Apple has announced the ‘Vision Pro’, a headset it hopes will be its most important product since the iPhone. The new virtual reality tool will allow people to see apps projected on top of the room around them, allowing apps to be “freed from the confines of a display”, Apple said. Users will be able to sit in their living room and see their apps – messages, phone calls, web browsing and more – projected on top of their coffee table, for instance. As such, it is the first Apple product “you look through, not at”, said Tim Cook as he introduced it during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Other apps, such as games, will take over the full view, Apple said. But even then the goggles had been made to ensure that users were never cut off from the world around them. :: Follow The Independent’s live coverage of Apple’s event here That includes a feature that means that if someone comes into the room, the headset will spot them and superimpose them. But the headset also has a feature called “EyeSight” – a display on the outside of the goggles, which shows people’s eyes, and gives an indication of what they are doing inside the headset. Read More Apple just added loads of new features to your iPhone Apple reveals big version of its smallest laptop Apple is about to update all its products – and release a very big new one
2023-06-06 02:52
Ange Postecoglou agrees to become new Tottenham manager
Tottenham have agreed terms for Ange Postecoglou to take over as the club's new manager on a two-year deal. The north Londoners now need to agree terms with Celtic before appointing the Australian.
2023-06-06 02:26
Binance mishandled funds and violated securities laws, according to SEC lawsuit
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao are accused of misusing investor funds, operating as an unregistered exchange and violating a slew of U.S. securities laws in a lawsuit filed by the SEC
2023-06-06 01:20
NASA publishes long-awaited report into UFOs and alien activity
NASA has held its first public meeting on the long-awaited report into UFOs. Last year, this new study was launched to investigate reports of UAP (unexplained anomalous phenomena) and for the first time the space agency has made the latest findings public. There have been around 800 events collected over the past 27 years, the expert panel says, with some reports of unexplained metallic flying orbs - all within Earth’s airspace. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the US Department of Defence’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) noted on the findings: “We see these all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers,” he said. “While we are still looking at it, I don’t have any more data other than that. Being able to come to some conclusion is going to take time, until we can get better-resolved data on similar objects that we can then do a larger analysis on." The Pentagon now receives between 50 and 100 monthly reports, Dr Kirkpatrick added, referring to a statistic from the report. Most sightings have some kind of explanation such as commercial aircraft or military drones, though there are still 2 to 5 per cent of those events which “display signatures that could be anomalous." Public Meeting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (Official NASA Broadcast) www.youtube.com About half of these include some kind of metallic looking orbs or round spheres that have been noticed by aircraft at high altitudes. However, is this is not enough evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life, says astrophysicist and chair of the study group, David Spergel. “To make the claim that we’ve seen something that is evidence of non-human intelligence, it would require extraordinary evidence,” he added. “And we have not seen that. I think that’s important to make clear.” Meanwhile, online harassment was also a topic at the meeting as trolls have been targeting NASA’s UAP study team which Dr Nicola Fox, NASA Science Mission Directorate associate administrator said is "hindering scientific progress." “It is really disheartening to hear of the harassment that our panelists have faced online all because they're studying this topic," she said. “Harassment only leads to further stigmatization of the UAP field significantly hindering scientific progress and discouraging others to study this important subject matter. Harassment also obstructs the public's right to knowledge." Watch the full public meeting on NASA's YouTube channel. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-06-06 00:22
Apple is expected to unveil a sleek, pricey headset. Is it the device VR has been looking for?
Apple appears poised to unveil a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world
2023-06-05 23:53
Microsoft 365 down for thousands of users - Downdetector
(Reuters) -Microsoft Corp's product suite that includes Word and Excel was down for more than 15,000 users on Monday, according
2023-06-05 23:15
British Airways, Boots Tell Employees Their Data Was Hacked
British Airways and Boots told thousands of staff members that their personal information may have been compromised by
2023-06-05 22:52
How Tottenham could line up under Ange Postecoglou
Tottenham are set to appoint Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou as their new manager. Here's how Spurs could line up under the Australian.
2023-06-05 22:45
OpenAI CEO sees 'huge' Israeli role in reducing risks from the technology
By Steven Scheer TEL AVIV OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted on Monday a "huge role" for Israel in
2023-06-05 21:29
Apple is about to hold its most highly anticipated product event in years
Apple may be just hours away from unveiling its most ambitious new hardware product in years.
2023-06-05 20:54
OpenAI boss 'heartened' by talks with world leaders over will to contain AI risks
The CEO of OpenAI says he is encouraged by a desire shown by world leaders to contain any risks posed by the artificial intelligence technology his company and others are developing
2023-06-05 19:59