Meta Connect 2024: How to Watch and What to Expect
Meta Connect, the big developer event and hardware showcase from the company that runs Facebook and Instagram, is kicking off next week. Meta is likely to show off its new VR and mixed-reality technology, put a shiny polish on its meandering metaverse ambitions, and delve into all the fresh ways it plans to squeeze artificial […]
The Apple Vision Pro Is Heavy. Here’s How to Fix That
In the two weeks it has spent on the faces of eager buyers, the Apple Vision Pro has been subjected to its share of criticism. As reported by The Verge and elsewhere, some customers are making a show of returning their Vision Pro headsets before Apple’s standard 14-day return window on new purchases closes. Some […]
The “Trolley Problem” Doesn’t Work for Self-Driving Cars
If you were the conductor of a trolley barreling toward two human beings, each one on either end of a fork in the track, could you choose which life to spare? This problem, one of the most famous thought experiments in all of philosophy, was proposed by British philosopher Phillipa Foot in 1967 as a […]