Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has used AI to restore the missing edges of Rembrandt’s damaged masterpiece, The Night Watch. Finished in 1642, the canvas was trimmed on all four sides in 1715 to fit between two doors at Amsterdam’s city hall. The museum trained the AI using both a...
Santa Monica, California-based AR tech firm Red 6 [https://www.red6ar.com/] has raised $30 million to expand its military aircraft training platform, bringing its valuation to $130 million. Founded in 2018, the company developed the Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS), which uses AR in training planes for pilots...
Facebook will soon be testing ads on its Oculus VR headsets, marking the end of an ad-free era in VR. Facebook had already started placing ads on its Oculus mobile app in May. The VR ads will appear in the shooter game “Blaston” and two other unnamed Oculus apps in...
The government of El Salvador has committed to airdropping $30 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to every adult citizen of the country. Every Salvadoran adult who downloads the government’s Bitcoin wallet app will be eligible. The news comes just a couple of weeks after the government declared the popular cryptocurrency...
Lego is building the way for a sustainable future. The Danish toymaker has produced prototype bricks made from recycled bottles. Now they will be determining whether the bricks can be mass-produced by conducting durability and usability tests, but the company is optimistic and expects to start sales in 18 to...
On a colossal win announced Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Virgin Galactic the license it needs to fly commercial passengers to space. The company cleared the final two FAA milestones, testing the spacecraft’s flight control and inertial navigation systems, with its test spaceflight last month. The...
