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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates an Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset and Oculus Touch controllers during the Oculus Connect 3 event in San Jose, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA little over four years after Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s name to Meta, reflecting his view that the future of work, play and socializing was going virtual, the company is making a major course correction. Meta this week began laying off employees focused on virtual reality within its Reality Labs division and is shutting down a number of studios that were working on…

Cloud modernization is becoming a strategic requirement for healthcare organizations as they expand digital services, manage sensitive patient data, and seek to maintain operational continuity, according to industry experts and recent market analysis. “Modernizing applications in healthcare is no longer just a technology initiative; it is a business decision that directly affects continuity of care, data protection and regulatory compliance,” says Thiago Pontes, Cloud Solutions Architect, Fortinet Brazil, through a press release. He adds that the shift to cloud environments is irreversible as providers rely more heavily on telemedicine, electronic medical records, and connected medical devices. Healthcare systems across Latin…

Hashgraph Ventures Manager Ltd (“Hashgraph Ventures”), a licensed and regulated venture capital fund under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has announced a $1 million pledge to the Hedera Africa Hackathon, the continent’s largest Web3 innovation event focused on accelerating digital transformation and economic inclusion across Africa. Exceptional projects selected from the hackathon will be assessed on a case-by-case basis for potential investment. This initiative underscores Hashgraph Ventures’ broader mission to back and support exceptional high-growth, early-stage ventures and projects developing real-world applications across blockchain, AI, and deep technology. In collaboration with The Hashgraph…

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft  Deputy Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start (and stop) deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the industry is going, and more. In this article, Terrell Cox, Vice President for Microsoft Security and Deputy CISO for Privacy and Policy, dives into the intersection of privacy and security. For decades, Microsoft has consistently prioritized earning and maintaining the trust of the people and organizations that rely on its technologies. The 2025 Axios Harris Poll 100 ranked…

IoT Breakthrough Celebrates a Decade of Honoring Top Internet-of-Things Innovators Around the Globe LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the most innovative companies in the global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market, today announced that OMRON Electronic Components, a global leader in innovative component solutions, has been selected as winner of the “Smart Agriculture Solution of the Year” award in the 10th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program. The 2026 IoT Breakthrough Award recognizes the breakthrough innovation of the Omron weather sensor, which offers the ability to sense various climate characteristics, including temperature,…

, I worked on real-time fraud detection systems and recommendation models for product companies that looked excellent during development. Offline metrics were strong. AUC curves were stable across validation windows. Feature importance plots told a clean, intuitive story. We shipped with confidence. A few weeks later, our metrics started to drift. Click-through rates on recommendations began to slide. Fraud models behaved inconsistently during peak hours. Some decisions felt overly confident, others oddly blind. The models themselves had not degraded. There were no sudden data outages or broken pipelines. What failed was our understanding of how the system behaved once it…

For nearly half a century, the dream of microscopic robotics has felt tantalizingly close, yet perpetually out of reach. We have grown up on a diet of science fiction like Fantastic Voyage, imagining tiny machines shrinking down to navigate the human bloodstream, repairing cells and hunting down viruses. But in the real world, shrinking a robot isn’t just about making things smaller; it’s about fighting physics. Now, a collaboration between researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has finally broken through the barrier that has stalled the field for all this time. They have created the…

Antibodies touch nearly every corner of healthcare. These carefully crafted proteins can target cancer cells, control autoimmune diseases, fight infections, and destroy the toxic proteins that drive neurological disorders. They’re also notoriously difficult to make.Over 160 antibody therapies have been approved globally. Their market value is expected to reach $445 billion in the next five years. But the traditional design process takes years of trial and error and is often constrained to structures similar to existing proteins.With AI, however, we can now generate completely new antibody designs—never before seen in nature—from scratch. Last year, labs and commercial companies raced to…

JuSun/iStock/Getty Images PlusFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s Key Takeaways Microsoft automatically turns on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations.Your files aren’t stolen — they’ve just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. A recent, undocumented change lets you turn off OneDrive Backup and move files back to your local folders.Microsoft is getting more aggressive about tying its flagship productivity products to its cloud services. In the most recent release of Windows 11, version 25H2, the OneDrive Backup feature is turned on automatically when you sign in with a Microsoft account on a new…

UK-based market research and consulting firm, Juniper Research, has unveiled its Top 10 Emerging Tech Trends for 2026, with cutting-edge technologies like neuromorphic computing, physical AI, and post-quantum cryptography taking centre stage. These are the technologies poised to reshape how businesses plan and invest in technology over the next few years.The 10 trends are ranked by Juniper Research by the impact they are expected to make. The paper cites 2026 as an important juncture for adoption and deployment. The report essentially could be taken as a potential roadmap and a guide to technology domains that, in time, will require strategic…