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Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

Two months before it changed its name to "Meta," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally introduced us to his metaverse for work : Horizon Workrooms, envisioned as a virtual space for workers to colla...

Jan 16The VergeTechnologyImpact

Kodak’s collectible Charmera is a terrible camera I somehow don’t hate

It’s so cute you may overlook the Charmera’s many limitations. Like trading cards, Lego figures , and even the coveted Labubu , you don't know exactly what your Kodak Charmera camera is going to look ...

Jan 16The VergeTechnologyImpact

Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf]

OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I coul...

Jan 16Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Grok stops users from making sexualized AI images after global backlash

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Grok will no longer be allowed to create AI photos of real people in sexualized or revealing clothing, after widespread global backlash. "We have implem...

Jan 15Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

Hey folks, I’m Hassan, one of the co-founders of Infracost ( https://www.infracost.io ). Infracost helps engineers see and reduce the cloud cost of each infrastructure change before they merge their c...

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Tech executives bet big on AI. Their workers are being tasked with proving they were right.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here . First came efficiency. Then came i...

Jan 15Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

'Big Short' investor Michael Burry sounds alarm on AI bubble that's 'too big to save'

Michael Burry Jim Spellman/WireImage Michael Burry says AI is a bubble so big that it will tank the market and economy when it pops. The "Big Short" investor said the government will try to he...

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Elden Ring: Nightreign Patch 1.03.2 Buffs All the Worst Nightfarers

Elden Ring: Nightreign just got a big balance patch, and even if you're not someone who's great at parsing patch notes, you might want to tune into this one, because basically every character that's b...

Jan 15IGNEntertainmentImpact

The author of 'Sapiens' says AI is about to create 2 crises for every country

Yuval Noah Harari was a speaker at the 2026 World Economic Forum Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images The author of "Sapiens" Yuval Noah Harari said AI is going to cause two crises for every c...

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Action RPG Dark December Launches on PC and Mobile

Free-to-play dark fantasy action RPG Dark December from developer Needs Games has officially launched on PC, Android, and iOS with crossplay and cross-progression. It marks a return to the world of Un...

6dIGNTechnologyImpact

Wall Street is losing its appetite for Oracle's data center debt

Larry Ellison stands on stage to give a keynote during the company's 2025 conference. Robert Galbraith/Reuters Oracle and OpenAI's have plans to build $500 billion of data centers in a venture called ...

4dBusiness Insidereconomics

The Bears-Packers game on Amazon set a record — and showed us just how mainstream streaming has become.

Most people in the U.S. needed to subscribe to Amazon Prime in order to watch the Chicago Bears/Green Bay Packers wild card playoff game. Cooper Neill/Getty Images For lots of people, NFL games are th...

Jan 13Business InsiderSportsImpact

Instagram is testing a new definition of 'friends'

Instagram is testing switching "following" counts to "friends" on user profiles. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Instagram is testing out replacing "following" count...

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Developer Behind Fallen Trailer Responds to AI Backlash

The founder, director, producer, and writer behind indie title Fallen has responded to claims its reveal trailer was built using generative AI, confirming that it was a "tone pitch" with AI "placehold...

5dIGNTechnologyImpact

Japan is deploying anti-bear drone tech in its ongoing and intense war on bears

A Japanese prefecture is taking an innovative approach to keeping bears away: drones. ARMEND NIMANI/AFP via Getty Images A Japanese city is taking an innovative approach to keeping bears away: drones....

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RAM price hikes: the latest on the global memory shortage

Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the se...

Jan 15The VergeTechnologyImpact

TikTok has quietly launched a new micro drama app called PineDrama as the category picks up steam in the US

PineDrama/Kiichiro Sato/AP. TikTok has rolled out a new micro drama app in the US and Brazil called PineDrama. The app's feed looks a lot like TikTok's, but just contains videos from mini drama series...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

I trained a GPT to think like Steve Jobs and help me run my company. AI is scary, but it's also my biggest tool.

Yesim Saydan built a custom GPT inspired by Steve Jobs to act as a mentor. Courtesy of Yesim Saydan Yesim Saydan uses over 17 custom GPTs to run her solo-consultancy business. She created her ideal te...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

I raised $500,000 at 21 by selling a share of my future earnings. It's how I solved having great ideas but no capital.

Kirill Avery is the CEO and founder of Alien. Courtesy of Kirill Avery Kirill Avery sold a percentage of his future earnings to fund startups like Alien and Human. He used a SAFE agreement to raise $5...

Jan 14Business InsidereconomicsImpact

Vibe coding startup Emergent has raised $70 million, led by Khosla and SoftBank

Emergent cofounders Mukund Jha (left) and Madhav Jha. Emergent Emergent is an AI software creation platform that helps anyone build web and mobile applications. The startup just raised $70 million in ...

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