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Meta’s legs update is not on the horizon yet

October 14, 2022

Meta’s Connect conference held earlier this week had announcements ranging from the new $1,500 Quest Pro headset to the company’s partnership with Microsoft to bring productivity tools to VR. However, probably one of the most discussed updates was that Meta is finally bringing legs to its virtual avatars. Until now, Horizon Worlds users — which […]

Meta’s legs update is not on the horizon yet by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: the dream of cryonics, and enhanced rats

October 14, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died When Aaron Drake flew from Arizona to the Yinfeng Biological Group in China in 2016, he was traveling there to guide China’s first forays into…

Google is updating its ‘Ad’ tag to ‘Sponsored’ for mobile search

October 14, 2022

Over the years, Google has made it harder to separate ads from organic search results at a glance. In its current iteration, when users perform a search, the only distinction between the two is “Ad” written in bold — and it’s easy to miss. The search giant is making a small change to that today […]

Google is updating its ‘Ad’ tag to ‘Sponsored’ for mobile search by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died

October 14, 2022
When Aaron Drake flew from Arizona to the Yinfeng Biological Group in China’s eastern Jinan province in 2016, he was whisked into a state-of-the-art biotech hub. More than 1,000 staffers—including an army of PhDs and MDs—were working on things like studies of the stem cells in umbilical cord blood. The center specialized in research on…