Apple has a secret team called the Exploratory Design Group or XDG, which operates as a startup inside the company and consists of several hundred people, mostly engineers and scientists. The main focus of this group is to work on noninvasive blood glucose monitoring technology for the Apple Watch. If XDG can successfully develop this technology for the Apple Watch,…
Over the past five years, the messenger Telegram has surpassed Facebook Messenger in popularity. This was said by the author of the project Pavel Durov. He added that at the moment Telegram is second in popularity only to the messenger WhatsApp. However, every year the gap from the market leader is narrowing.Telegram surpassed Facebook Messenger in popularity and is now…
Virtual, augmented and mixed reality are exciting worlds that often lack computing power and thoughtful application concepts. Despite the controversial market, Xiaomi has introduced the Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, a compact headset that uses the same Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 processor as the Quest Pro. The company says these "sunglasses" offer an elegant way to combine the digital and…
Facebook and Instagram users will soon have a new paid verified badge option in the form of Meta Verified. The $12-a-month subscription on the Web site and $15-a-month subscription on iOS and Android will give users a blue checkmark next to their account name for increased visibility in search, comments and recommendations, as well as copycat protection, priority customer support…
TikTok continues its efforts to turn its app into a place to shop, attracting more brands for its "Shop" initiative, which allows companies to sell their products directly in the app with full checkout options. TikTok began testing stores in the U.S. last November, and we now know that several more brands are participating in this initial testing phase. According…
Samsung has announced a new feature called Message Guard that protects users from malware and spyware through so-called zero-click attacks. The South Korean chaebol said the solution "proactively" protects users' devices by "limiting the impact of invisible threats disguised as image attachments." The security feature, available in Samsung Messages and Google Messages, is currently limited to the Samsung Galaxy S23…
Google has announced several new ways to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve its search functions. AI has played a crucial role in Google's search technology from the beginning, improving the company's language understanding capabilities. Through further investments in AI, Google has expanded its understanding of information to include images, videos and even real-world insights. Here's how Google is using…
Microsoft is actively using artificial intelligence with its updated Bing search engine and Edge web browser, both of which are based on what appears to be exclusive access to the successor to the popular OpenAI ChatGPT language model. The new AI is as yet unnamed, described only in a blog post as follows: …OpenAI's next-generation major new language model, more…
Tech giant Meta reports a loss of $13.7 billion in 2022 for its Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) meta-unit. FRL reported a loss of $4.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, down from an estimate of $4.4 billion and up from a third-quarter loss of $3.7 billion. Meta FRL's Metaworld division lost $2.81 billion in the second quarter of 2022…
Uber Technologies ( UBER ) is on the upswing ahead of its fourth-quarter results to be released before markets open Wednesday, with demand for its rides and deliveries up, fares higher and the number of drivers fully recovered from steep losses due to the pandemic. The company is on track to post the first profitable year in its history based…
