Meta’s New VR Glasses Push Consumer Gadgets Beyond the Smartphone

Meta is combining lightweight hardware, immersive displays and natural interaction as companies search for the next major personal-computing platform. For more than a decade, technology companies have experimented with augmented and virtual reality. The biggest challenge has never been proving that the technology works. It has been making the hardware small, comfortable and useful enough […]

AI Is Becoming a New Scientific Instrument as Researchers Build Machines That Explore Biology

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used for something much broader than generating text or images. Scientists are using AI to search through enormous biological datasets, identify patterns and generate predictions that would be difficult to obtain manually. One of the most striking examples is genomics. The human genome contains billions of DNA letters. Understanding what […]

Meta Expands Its AI Glasses Lineup as It Pushes Toward the Post-Smartphone Era

Meta is expanding its wearable technology strategy with new AI-powered glasses, bringing its Muse personal AI agent to the devices while introducing new Ray-Ban Meta models, audio glasses and additional styles for markets around the world. The smartphone has been the center of personal computing for more than a decade. But some of the world’s […]