The Metaverse Takes Manhattan
NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.Read More
Year: 2021
To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores
The social networking company has discussed opening physical stores to showcase its virtual reality and augmented reality devices.Read More
A federal judge delivered a major blow to Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, on Thursday by ruling in favor of NASA in a...
Facebook Faces New Antitrust Lawsuit
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The suit, filed by the now defunct photo start-up Phhhoto, accused the social network of stalling on a deal and then putting it out...
The quarter was otherwise upbeat, as business continued to rebound.Read More
Isomorphic Labs is a spinoff of the London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind.Read More
Pamela McCorduck, Historian of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 80
She interviewed many of the scientists who were at the heart of the field through the end of the 1970s, and she compiled a...
Elizabeth Holmes Trial Exposes Investors’ Lack of Due Diligence
Start-up investors have often suspended skepticism while chasing a hot deal. The trial of Ms. Holmes, the founder of Theranos, has put that behavior...
Blue Origin Loses Legal Fight Over SpaceX’s NASA Moon Contract
A federal judge rejected the argument by Jeff Bezos’ rocket company that NASA unfairly awarded a lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s firm.Read More
America Loves Choices. Not in Phones.
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Why Apple and Samsung are the Coke and Pepsi of smartphones in the U.S.Read More