Tag: Software
BlackPink is performing a free VR concert for Meta Quest 3 and Oculus Quest 2 owners as a post-Christmas gift
If you’re a K-Pop fan who owns a Meta Quest headset or gets one for Christmas, Meta has a gift for you; free front-row seats to a BlackPink concert in virtual reality taking place on December 26 at 5pm PT / Wednesday 1am GMT / Wednesday 12am ACT. The recording…
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My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world’s toughest physical games in just six hours
An AI just mastered Labyrinth in six hours, and I am questioning my own existence. I started playing Labyrinth in the 1970s. While it may look deceptively simple and is fully analog, Labyrinth is an incredibly difficult, nearly 60-year-old physical board game that challenges you to navigate a metal ball…
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How Twitter died in 2023 and why X may not be far behind
When Elon Musk first took over Twitter, those of us in the tech media had all kinds of theories about how the acquisition might bring about the death of the 17-year-old platform. Some posited that his inept attempts at cost-cutting would cause irreparable damage to Twitter’s infrastructure or that mass…
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How to create stickers on the iPhone using your photos in iOS 17
Creating stickers from photos is an easily overlooked iPhone feature tucked into iOS 17. Using Apple’s machine learning algorithms that quickly separate a subject from its background, it extracts pictures of you, your friends or pets (or anything else it detects as the picture’s subject), transforming them into digital decals.…
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Beeper Mini’s latest iMessage for Android setup requires a Mac
Beeper Mini has a new “fix” coming for its broken iMessage on Android integration. However, the new method requires Mac access to send (and intermittently resend) “registration data” from an Apple-made desktop or laptop, calling into question how far users will stick with the app. The company says you’ll see…
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Microsoft has cured this Windows 11 printer nightmare – but the fix might surprise you
Windows 11 users (as well as those on Windows 10) have been experiencing weirdness around a frustrating bug with printers, but the good news is that there’s now a fix. The bad news is that it’s not quite a straightforward solution, as rather unusually, Microsoft requires the installation of a…
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