Meta is reportedly planning to acquire the Palo Alto, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup PlayAI. As per the report, the acquisition is aimed at bolstering its AI division to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Google. The Menlo Park-based social media giant has been aggressively pushing out new AI models and AI features for…
Canva introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) features for its visual communications platform on Thursday. While these are backend features that will not be visible on the frontend to the user, they significantly improve its capabilities in terms of platform integration. The first new feature is Canva’s deep research connector for ChatGPT. This allows OpenAI’s…
Honor Magic V5 will be introduced in China on July 2, and the company is actively sharing teasers, revealing its design and specifications. With the latest social media poster, Honor has showcased the periscope telephoto camera on the upcoming foldable smartphone. The Honor Magic V5 is expected to have a triple rear camera unit. It…
FBC: Firebreak, the new co-op shooter from Remedy Entertainment, has surpassed one million players, the studio announced Thursday. The game launched on June 17 and is available on Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. While members of the two subscription services would likely form the major chunk of the game’s player base, Remedy…
Apple is officially working on supporting its Swift programming language on Android, the company announced earlier this week. While apps for iOS and Android are usually written in Swift and Kotlin, respectively, the iPhone maker’s attempts to support Swift on Android could offer an alternative for development of apps on Google’s operating system. Apple already…
A claim that desktops are less secure than mobile devices can be true or false, but this depends highly on their configuration. While desktop devices are less secure out of the box, they are more private and can be made more secure than mobile devices. The post Security Is Not Privacy, Part 2: The Guard…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first direct image of a newly discovered exoplanet. Astronomers announced that Webb imaged a Saturn-mass planet orbiting the nearby young star TWA 7. Dubbed TWA 7 b, the planet’s mass is only about 0.3 times that of Jupiter – roughly Saturn’s mass – making it the smallest…
In June 2024, scientists detected a mysterious, powerful burst of radio waves originating from within our galaxy. At first, they thought it was coming from a pulsar or another undiscovered cosmic object. However, an analysis revealed the origin of the signal was too close to the Earth. Astronomers think it was caused by a long-dead…
In the recent research done by using the James Webb Telescope, in March 2024, scientists found that ethanol and other icy organic compounds near protostars IRAS 2A and IRAS 23385. The findings were published in the JOYS+ program. It can offer insights into the cosmic chemistry that can help in knowing the formation of the…
Two spectacular stellar nurseries—the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae—have been revealed in dazzling detail in one of the first public images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Located 4,000 light-years from Earth, these distant clouds of gas and dust mark the debut of the observatory’s scientific capabilities. Released during a livestream on June 23, the images…