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Xreal announced its Aura mixed‑reality glasses at a price of $1,279, $20 less than Meta’s newly unveiled VR glasses revealed at Meta Connect. The Aura ships this year for reservation holders, with broader preorder opening in the coming weeks and initial shipments to the United States, Canada, Japan and South Korea, expanding to additional markets in 2027. The device features a 12 GB RAM, 256 GB storage configuration, a 5K micro‑OLED display, and real‑world passthrough lenses, allowing users to [...]

Jim Cramer told viewers on “Mad Money” that the safest bets in the current AI boom are established tech giants, naming Meta Platforms and Microsoft as his top picks. He argued that while AI valuations appear stretched and reminiscent of the dot‑com era, companies with strong management can continually discover profitable AI applications. Cramer praised CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s team for monetizing Meta’s AI product Muse and highlighted Microsoft’s Azure and Copilot initiatives, noting the stock’s rise from a [...]

A letter published on September 30 in TribLive titled “Don’t believe the Luddites on AI” accuses self‑identified Luddites of propagating a hoax about artificial intelligence. The author, John W. Connelly of Sharpsburg, lists prominent AI figures—Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Geoffrey Hinton—as examples of those allegedly misled by the so‑called Luddites. Connelly acknowledges that most of the critics lack technical expertise, yet claims they appear confident in their arguments. The piece appears among a series [...]

Microsoft has unveiled a new visual identity for its Copilot AI assistant, featuring a redesigned icon and wordmark intended to convey the tool’s activity in real time. The redesign, detailed in a Microsoft Design blog post, uses two interlocking square shapes that merge into a single silhouette, symbolizing collaborative functionality. Color gradients from the original design are retained but now shift contextually, while three distinct animation styles—Thinking, Planning, and Retrieval—illustrate when Copilot is processing, organizing, or pulling [...]

Vasion’s latest research, released in St. George, Utah, shows that document and print workflows remain the weakest link in enterprise Zero Trust strategies. The survey of chief information officers and senior IT leaders found 54 percent consider the risk to these workflows “known and accepted,” yet only 16 percent have actually incorporated printing devices into a Zero Trust architecture. Respondents cited legacy hardware, fragmented management tools and limited visibility as barriers to securing print infrastructure. The study also highlighted [...]

Each morning before the hot‑air balloons rise, Balloon Fiesta Park stages a coordinated display of 500 drones that illuminate the sky at 5:45 a.m., with additional evening shows at 7:45 p.m. The choreography, which took just over a month to develop, begins in a design studio where technicians select shapes, colors and flight paths, then program the units and position them west of the field above the North Diversion Channel for safety. Pilot Owen Schneider operates the fleet with a [...]

Apple Intelligence can now be disabled and its models removed through a new user‑friendly app called RemoveMacAI, which replaces the original Terminal command. The application presents a graphical interface that lets users toggle specific features, preview changes before they are applied, and offers an Undo page to restore defaults. The tool frees approximately 13 GB of storage on Macs. Users must note the app is not notarized, requiring additional steps to run it. The download is available at [...]

The Cardano Foundation has activated CIP‑0113, a token standard that embeds compliance controls directly into regulated digital assets. The protocol allows issuers of stablecoins, funds, and bonds to set transfer rules that enforce identity verification, sanctions screening, and other regulatory checks on every transaction. It also grants issuers the authority to freeze, seize, or restrict holdings when required, without needing a network hard fork. The standard can be updated as regulations evolve, enabling issuers to maintain compliance [...]