Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg posted his own review of Apple's Vision Pro on Instagram, inexplicably coming for our work here at Engadget.
In a video shot directly from a Meta Quest 3 (oh of course), Zuckerberg didn't mince his words. He said he expects the Quest to be the best value for most people because it's “seven times cheaper” than the $3,500 Vision Pro. Ultimately, he concluded that the Quest 3 was “the better product, period.”
Zuckerberg thinks the Quest is “much more comfortable,” noting that the headset's field of view is wider and has a brighter display than the Vision Pro. He added that the Quest has a larger library: Meta's Quest, unlike the Vision Pro, has access to YouTube and Xbox apps. And that’s certainly a fair criticism.
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Kimi gave viewers access to pirated shows and movies.
An app called Kimi curiously outranked well-known streaming services like Netflix and Prime Video in the App Store's list of best free entertainment apps this week. Today, Apple removed it, probably because it allowed users to access pirated movies.
Kimi was disguised as an app that tests your eyesight by making you play “spot the difference” between similar photos. In reality, it was full of pirated shows and movies. If anyone remembers the heyday of pirated movies over slow internet connections, they need to relive the variable video quality of yesteryear.
This could make the retail giant a formidable rival to Amazon and Roku.
Walmart could buy budget TV maker Vizio. The $2 billion deal would make Vizio a house brand for the retailer and allow the company to compete directly in the affordable smart TV space currently dominated by Amazon and Roku. Vizio has been looking for buyers for years. It was almost bought by Chinese media conglomerate LeEco in 2016, which was another $2 billion deal, but that fell through. If the purchase goes through, Walmart would also have access to all that cool customer data collected by Vizio's smart TV platform.
We are not ready for what is coming.
Since 1979, Arctic ice has shrunk by 1.35 million square kilometers and Antarctic ice is now at its lowest level since records began. Frozen Arctic, a report produced by the Universities of the Arctic and Lapland in collaboration with the UN-backed think tank GRID-Arendal, brings together sixty geoengineering projects that could slow or reverse polar melting. A team of researchers examined each idea, from those already in place to those on the fringes of science. Daniel Cooper details some of the possible solutions.