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...
The use of facial recognition to monitor employees in the workplace is increasing. The latest to join the ranks is the Japanese camera manufacturing company Canon. The company has installed biometric ‘smile recognition’ technology for facial scanning at the Beijing headquarters of its Chinese subsidiary, Canon Information Technology. Employees are...
The source code of the World Wide Web (WWW) is now up for auction as an NFT (non-fungible token) at Sotheby’s. Created by British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee 32 years ago, the Web is widely regarded as one of the most significant innovations in human history and the building...
