(Natural News) The World Economic Forum (WEF) is slated to have a key leadership role in the metaverse espoused by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Nick Clegg, global affairs president of Facebook’s parent company Meta, confirmed the WEF’s new role in a tweet. He mentioned the organization’s “multi-stakeholder initiative” as having a leadership role in the […]

(Natural News) Facebook recently announced a research project that aims to build an artificial intelligence (AI) capable of understanding the world like human beings. The company’s AI project is called “Ego4D.” It involves a consortium of researchers from 13 labs and universities in nine countries. The project hopes to create an AI that can “understand and […]

(Natural News) Are we living in a simulation? According to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor and computer scientist Rizwan Virk, it’s very likely. Virk’s ideas develop upon those first theorized by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom known as the simulation hypothesis. In this, he outlines three possibilities: That humanity, like many other human-like civilizations before it, […]

(Natural News) Researchers are finally beginning to understand how the brain of an organism controls its active senses. An experiment with glass knifefish (Eigenmannia virescens) revealed that the tiny active sensing motions performed by the animal are controlled via sensory feedback. The tiny movements increase the accuracy of the data that is being sent to the brain of the […]

(Natural News) A Canadian university has turned a beloved concept in science fiction – 3D holographic communication – into real technology. A CBC article details how researchers demonstrated a videoconferencing system that can create life-sized, three-dimensional holograms of people in distant locations as if they were in the same room. The technology is straight out of […]

(Natural News) As if things weren’t already bad enough for Mark Zuckerberg’s baby, Facebook (the world’s least trusted company at this point), now they are apparently working on a secret project behind the scenes that has nothing to do with social media, and everything to do with scanning people’s brains as part of a sinister […]

(Natural News) As if the human race hasn’t already diminished to the point of near-total soullessness, thanks to the rise of smartphones and social media, new research suggests that things could soon get a whole lot worse with the introduction of “sex robots.” According to one self-professing expert on the subject, the idea of having […]

(Natural News) DARPA is no longer satisfied with merely deploying drones to the battlefield. It wants swarms of unmanned aircraft and ground-borne robots that can work together to isolate an urban objective, according to an article on TechCrunch. The military research agency has announced the second “sprint” of its OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program. Sprints […]

(Natural News) The medical industry is attempting to immerse itself in virtual reality (VR) technology in the hopes that it will improve patient outcomes. From remote surgeries to VR medical learning, the technology appears to have a variety of applications in health care. A more recent use found is using VR as a distraction tool […]

(Natural News) If you thought that the pinnacle of contact lens technology has already been reached, think again. A group of researchers from South Korea has now shown — through a new paper published recently in the journal Science Advances— that it may be possible to bestow simple augmented reality (AR) functionality and other neat […]