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Emerging technologies of 2023 – From flexible batteries to a metaverse for mental health
Here are the top ten emerging technologies of 2023 as per the World Economic Forum.
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Wearables for plants, bacteria eating viruses, and 8 technologies in 2023 that can change the future
The World Economic Forum has announced ten breakthrough technologies set to change the world over t…
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Is Metaverse a ticking technology bomb?
The Metaverse can be beneficial in many respects, while also raising many issues. Here is a list…
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A sexual assault in the metaverse has investigators questioning the future of virtual crime prosecution
The British police are investigating a relatively novel allegation: that a teenage girl's avatar wa…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Alibaba makes a metaverse move by leading a $60 million funding round into AR glasses maker Nreal
AR technology — like the Light and Air glasses Nreal develops — is key to people gettin…
Adam Morgan McCarthy
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Founder and CIO of Hungary's most-funded tech startup uses ethos of self-reliance and strong partnerships to drive innovation
Founder and CIO of Hungary's most-funded tech startup: We're on the precipice of a new era of techn…
Hazel Davis
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Mark Zuckerberg agreed it could be possible to use the Metaverse to bring back the dead virtually
Podcaster Lex Fridman asked Mark Zuckerberg about whether his new humanlike avatars could be used t…
Beatrice Nolan
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Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse ambitions are shrinking
The Facebook founder went from talking up the metaverse to barely mentioning it at all. He only men…
Kali Hays
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Meta starts testing NFTs as Facebook posts as part of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse quest
Meta is trialing NFTs as Facebook posts with a small group of US creators despite NFT sales plungin…
Jyoti Mann
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Binance Labs announces $500 million fund to boost Blockchain technologies and Web3.0 startups
The fund is supported by leading global institutional investors such as DST Global Partners, Breyer…
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Metaverse for mental healthcare? Experts ‘cautiously optimistic’ after WEF report
A World Economic Forum report released on Monday, June 26, has said that metaverse as a technology …
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It's time to see whether AI is the new internet – or the next Metaverse
Eventually, companies will have to start showing their shareholders that ChatGPT is helping them ma…
George Glover
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6G will hit the market around 2030 amid the expansion of the 'industrial metaverse,' Nokia CEO says
Pekka Lundmark discussed the predicted arrival of 6G during his appearance on a Davos panel titled …
Rosie Bradbury
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A woman claimed she was virtually groped by a gang of male avatars in Meta's metaverse, report says
Nina Jane Patel, 43, alleged she was "verbally and sexually harassed" by three or four male avatars…
Joshua Zitser
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The metaverse is a massive opportunity for crypto that calls for new platforms and tokens, Bank of America strategist says
"We're going to start using cryptocurrencies as currencies" in the metaverse, BofA's Haim Israel pr…
Harry Robertson
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Goldman Sachs says the metaverse must run on blockchain, and heralds crypto tech as a huge disruptor
Blockchain is the only technology that can secure ownership across different virtual worlds in the …
Harry Robertson
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Layoffs are a nail in the coffin for whatever the metaverse is
The metaverse is expensive, vague, and there's no evidence anyone wants it. It'll be the first thin…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Companies are piling in to back China's efforts to build a metaverse as projections for global growth in the space reach trillions of dollars
More than 100 companies and individuals are now part of a state-backed committee focused on bolster…
Carla Mozée
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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has lost nearly $50 billion on the metaverse - more than Ford, Hershey, or Kraft Heinz are worth
Facebook-parent Meta has lost $47 billion in its metaverse division in under five years, a sum that…
Theron Mohamed
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Meta wants to track your eye movements and facial expressions as you roam the metaverse, patents suggest
Meta executive Nick Clegg told the FT that advertisers could use eye-tracking data from users' VR h…