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As we expected, Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division, which focused on virtual reality and metaverse products, Bloomberg reports. The company will refocus on developing wearables, like its recent batch of AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses, according to a memo from CTO Andrew Bosworth.The news isn’t too surprising. Reality Labs has lost more than $70 billion since the beginning of 2021, and while Meta has done a solid job of delivering desirable consumer VR headsets and smart glasses, that business hasn’t been nearly profitable enough to justify the cost. And of course, Mark…
Ditching his plans to make digital ID mandatory for workers in the UK is an almighty backtracking and dilution of one of the prime minister’s flagship policy ideas of the autumn.I remember the first time Sir Keir Starmer talked publicly about his plans, because he was talking to me when he did so.It was September, and we were sheltering from the pouring rain, in an outside metal stairwell next to a giant ship being built by BAE Systems on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow.What he had to say that day was rather overshadowed by the swirling storm around…
E Ink tablet maker reMarkable is running a that can save you between $80 and $90 when buying a reMarkable 2 along with a Marker stylus and a folio case. The savings vary depending on the bundle you configure, but this can bring your out-the-door cost down to $449 from $529 for the tablet, Marker stylus and polymer weave book folio.reMarkable The company also sells a newer stylus called Marker Plus that lets you erase by flipping it around just like a real pencil, but that will cost you an extra $50. If you’ve been eyeing a dedicated writing tablet…
Lyse DoucetChief international correspondentReutersIran’s rulers are confronting their most serious challenge since their own 1979 revolution.They’re now countering on an unprecedented scale – a ferocious security crackdown and near total internet shutdown has been unleashed on a scale unseen in previous crises.Some of the streets once engulfed by a roar of anger against the regime are now starting to go silent.”On Friday it was extremely crowded – the crowd was unbelievable – and there was a lot of shooting. Then Saturday night it became much, much quieter,” a resident of Tehran told BBC Persian.”You would have to have a death…
Nawal Al-Maghafi,Senior international investigations correspondentandSheida Kiran,BBC Eye Investigations’Do you recognise your passport? Now look what will happen to it’, says unseen woman in a videoFlames lick around the edges of Omar’s passport. “It’s burning well,” an unseen woman says in Russian in the video.Omar, a 26-year-old Syrian construction worker, had been deployed for about nine months on the front line of Russia’s war in Ukraine when the clip arrived on his phone.He knew the woman’s voice. It was Polina Alexandrovna Azarnykh, who he says had helped him sign up to fight for Russia, promising lucrative work and Russian citizenship. But…
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, tested its autonomous vehicles in New York City in 2025, and as part of proposed legislation from New York Governor Kathy Hochul, the company could soon offer its services across the state, Wired reports.Governor Hochul’s proposed legislation was formally announced during a State of the State address covering policy proposals for the upcoming year. The new law, if passed, would loosen the state’s restrictions on self-driving car companies by forming a pilot program that would allow for “the limited deployment of commercial for-hire autonomous passenger vehicles outside New York City.” Applicants to the pilot program…
Niger has revoked the licences of dozens of transport operators and drivers for refusing to deliver fuel to neighbouring Mali where they face possible attacks by jihadists.An al-Qaeda affiliate imposed a fuel blockade on Mali in September and began attacking petrol tankers on major highways.The landlocked country depends on fuel imports and in July had signed a deal with Niger to supply 85 million litres of fuel over six months to its vast, northern desert region, where various militant groups operate.Niger is an oil-producing country and a major ally of Mali – both run by military juntas which face jihadist…
Jemma CrewandFaarea Masud,Business reportersEPA/ShutterstockUS President Donald Trump has said countries doing business with Iran will face a 25% tariff on trade they do with America.It comes as Iran cracks down on anti-government protests, with thousands of people feared dead.Trump has used the threat of tariffs before to exert pressure on countries. Here’s what we know so far. What do we know about the tariff? Not a huge amount. On Monday Trump posted on Truth Social: “Effective immediately, any country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a tariff of 25% on any and all business being done…