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Google Pixel 5 review: new phone, old tricks

The Verge

Google goes back to its old tricks, mostly for the better The amount of effort Google seems to put into its Pixel phones while simultaneously ensuring that they look and feel mundane never ceases to astonish me. The Google Pixel 5 in “sorta sage” green. Pixel 5 hardware design. The Pixel 5 is unassuming.

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What wearing Apple’s Vision Pro headset does to our brains

Vox

The tech world got very fired up in 2013 when Google released a video of a wild concept. The gadget that would make all this possible was called Google Glass, a $1,500 device you wore like glasses , with a tiny display placed in front of one eye and a camera that could see (and record) everything you could see. We are not ready.

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Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name

The Verge

The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail.

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Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t.

Vox

The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse. In fact, Meta is already exploring ways to incorporate biometrics into its emerging metaverse business , which aims to build a virtual, internet-based simulation where people can interact as avatars.

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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest bet

Vox

Mark Zuckerberg is betting his company’s future on the metaverse — a virtual space in which people interact with each other using avatars and AR/VR technology — investing tens of billions of dollars in an attempt to build the platforms and hardware that captures a new generation of users.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

Vox

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.

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Oculus Connect is now ‘Facebook Connect,’ and it’s happening September 16th

The Verge

Facebook’s annual Oculus Connect conference will be held online-only on September 16th — and it’s being rebranded as Facebook Connect, part of the social giant’s gradual assimilation of its virtual reality subsidiary. Like the past few years’ events, it will cover a mix of virtual and augmented reality news from Facebook.