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No fewer than 50 students from the University College Dublin have been involved in the construction of the Republic of Ireland’s first successfully launched satellite, BBC reports Saturday. The satellite, EIRSAT-1 is a two-unit CubeSat [miniature cube satellite] equipped with three experiments and was deployed into orbit from a Falcon …

Technology titan, Microsoft, has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT creator OpenAI and has been given a seat on the startup’s board. The nomination was shared in a memo to OpenAI staff on Wednesday that was later posted to the company’s blog and included a list of priorities from the …

Tech giants including Apple, Google and Meta will be forced to do more to tackle online child sexual abuse material and pro-terror content, including “deepfake” child pornography created using generative AI, in world-first industry standards laid out by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. Following more than two years of work, and after …

Companies in Japan are looking to provide innovative new products and services to meet the demands of a market that has undergone rapid and dramatic change in the last half century. Tradition has been replaced in many sectors by technology — and firms that are slow to embrace that evolution …

China Daily, the prominent English-language newspaper steered by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, announced the launch of its own metaverse and NFT platform. According to the announcement and Tender Offer invitation, China Daily is awarding approximately $390,000 (2.813 Chinese yuan) to a third-party contractor (either a Chinese …

Industrial Metaverse has the potential to solve real-world problems by integrating cutting-edge technologies such as digital twin, artificial intelligence, and edge and cloud computing, said Peter Koerte, Chief Technology Officer and Strategy Officer, Siemens AG while delivering his keynote address at Siemens Innovation Day in Mumbai. “It will enable users …

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse push appears to be taking a different and this time it seems for the better. After spending nearly $40 billion in the metaverse, Meta’s efforts to onboard its massive user base into the 3D world appeared to have failed after Reality Labs, the division driving its metaverse …

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company’s Metaverse platform may one day help people interact with the virtual avatars of their deceased loved ones. In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman in the Metaverse, Mr Zuckerberg shared his thoughts on the future of virtual reality and the company’s …