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Ryan Brooks
Ryan Brooks is a California native university lecturer currently based in Taipei with an MBA in marketing and degrees in history and philosophy. He writes about culture, consumer behavior, technology and blockchain and can be found on Twitter @RGBWriting.
Shanghai, China’s largest city, is about to invest billions of dollars in the metaverse. Though its exact definition is unclear, the metaverse is basically supposed to be a 3D version of the internet where people can live their digital lives and interact with each other through avatars. The metaverseRead More →
Facebook parent company Meta released a set of papers last fall in which the company erased big chunks from photographs or videos — then used artificial intelligence to fill in the gaps. This required the AI models to have some type of common sense understand of how the world works,Read More →
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off four new headset prototypes a few days ago that, he said, make virtual reality feel almost real. The goal is to invent displays “that are as vivid and realistic as the physical world and much more advanced than traditional computer screens we use today,”Read More →
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