Facebook is investing billions to build the "metaverse" Facebook will start publishing the financial results of its augmented and virtual reality labs as a separate unit, where it is investing billions in its ambitions to build the "metaverse" and as it reported that its main advertising business faces "significant uncertainty." Facebook, which reported third-quarter profit up 17%, warned that Apple's ...

Illustration created by Pierre Mion. Hello to our fellow readers. Weekly publication is here, fresh news awaits you. Enjoy the reading! Cameron Houser – 10’21 has left the “Farmer’s Business Network”, she was VP Operations and Strategy. James Racofsky – 10’21 has left the “Cape Analytics”, he was Director of Enterprise Sales. Took office as Vice President Of Business Development ...

The heaviest spenders in the venture capital world are showing no signs of paring down. If anything, the two most famously deep-pocketed investors–Tiger Global Management and the SoftBank Vision Fund–appear to be putting more capital to work. Those are the findings from our latest quarterly tally of the most active global startup investors.  In it, we find that the 14 ...

A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time. A loping cheetah dashes across a rolling field, bounding over sudden gaps in the rugged terrain. The movement may look effortless, but getting a robot to move this way is an altogether different prospect. In recent years, four-legged robots inspired ...

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The mission will launch the Japanese QZS 1R navigation satellite. MHI webcast Source

Thanks to evidence provided by missions like NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, scientists have theorized that Venus likely experienced a catastrophic resurfacing event about 500 million years ago (give or take 200 Mya). This is believed to be the reason why Venus is such a hellish place today, with an atmosphere that is 92 times as dense as Earth’s, predominantly composed of ...

The purchase from current owner and founder, Irish businessman Denis O’Brien, is expected to be completed within six months Australian telecommunications firm Telstra will buy Digicel Pacific for $1.6 billion (€1.4 billion), in a government-supported move reportedly aimed at shutting out China-backed players from acquiring the regionally dominant company. Telstra announced it had received $1.3b in funding from Canberra to ...

As both private and public markets continue to be inundated with capital, investors seem to be looking for new ways to invest—and platforms offering ways to buy into private companies seem to be having their moment. While platforms like New York-based EquityZen and the Nasdaq Private Market have been in the space for years, the last several months has seen ...

Mapping the 3D volume of an environment during online operation is necessary for tasks like autonomous navigation or mobile manipulation. However, these measurements are affected by sensor noise and pose estimation errors. Volumetric Mapping technique is used in different fields, where image segmentation or other types of image processing are required. Image credit: Toorumer via Wikimedia, CC-BY-SA-4.0 A recent study ...

An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off from the Guiana Space Center with the SES 17 and Syracuse 4A communications satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/S. Martin A European Ariane 5 rocket fired into space Saturday night from French Guiana with a commercial broadband satellite for SES and a French military telecom craft, setting a new payload mass record for geostationary transfer orbit on ...