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☆ One of the biggest autonomous transportation tests is operating deep underwater
  + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Barbara Collins | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Boeing's lineup of unmanned, undersea vehicles (UUV) can operate autonomously for months at a time on a hybrid rechargeable propulsion power system. More than 80% of the ocean remains unexplored by humans but could soon be mapped by autonomous underwater robots. Autonomous robot submarines — also referred to as autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs — are able to explore high-pressure areas of the ocean floor that are unreachable by humans through preprogrammed missions, allowing them to function without humans aboard, or controlling them. Navies worldwide are investing in unmanned underwater vehicles to elevate their fleet of below-water defense tools. The U.K.'s Ministry of Defence also announced in August the donation of six autonomous underwater drones to Ukraine to aid in their fight against Russia by locating and identifying Russian mines.
☆ John Carmack, the consulting CTO for Meta's virtual-reality efforts, is leaving. 'I wearied of the fight'
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Ashley Stewart | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Carmack joined Oculus in 2013 as CTO, prior to its acquisition by Facebook. John Carmack, the consulting CTO for Meta's virtual-reality efforts, is leaving, according to two people familiar with the company. Overall, Carmack said he simply "wearied of the fight" with Meta, formerly known as Facebook, which acquired Oculus in 2014. Despite being one of the best known and more popular VR headsets on the market, Meta changed the name of the brand last year to Meta Quest. During Meta's developer conference in October, Carmack hosted a solo hour-long talk about the company's Oculus or Quest headset.
☆ Facebook has announced layoffs. Here's which teams are likely to be affected.
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
But in the tech world: There's one thing we can't seem to escape — layoffs. Elon Musk's Twitter is asking some laid-off workers if they want to come back. Meanwhile, some tech workers who have been laid off are taking to TikTok to post "get ready with me" videos wherein they film themselves — you guessed it — getting ready to be laid off. According to people familiar with the company, divisions including marketing, partnerships, HR, and engineering will be among the hardest hit. Elon Musk is looking to rehire Twitter workers.
☆ The Oculus founder who was later fired by Facebook created a VR headset that can kill people in real life if they die in a game
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Palmer Luckey, who created Meta's Oculus, created a VR headset that kills users in real life if they die in a video game. "The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me," Luckey recently wrote. Luckey sold Oculus, the backbone of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse pivot, to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion. The original creator of the Oculus headset, which now serves as the backbone for Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse ambitions, wrote in a blog post that he had modified a VR headset to explode when the wearer loses in a video game, killing the user in real life, too. In the post, titled "If you die in the game, you die in real life," Luckey said he was inspired to create the deadly gaming device by a fictional VR headset called "NerveGear" featured in an anime television series called Sword Art Online.
☆ Oculus founder Palmer Luckey compares Facebook's metaverse to a 'project car,' with Mark Zuckerberg pursuing an expensive passion project that no one thinks is valuable
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Luckey founded Oculus and sold it to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. He wants the metaverse to be built, but says Facebook's current product Horizon is "not good." Luckey sold Oculus, a virtual-reality startup, to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion. Luckey was fired from Facebook in 2016, which he said happened because of his political donations to an "unpopular" cause. He said the amount of money Zuckerberg is putting behind the project alone means there's a chance Horizon Worlds will get better and the metaverse will be a success.
☆ Oracle is steering clear of talent from major tech hubs in the cloud giant's latest more to save money and curb labor costs
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
It's part of the cloud giant's plan to curb labor costs that insiders say is starting to hurt morale. Oracle is steering clear of job-seekers in major tech hubs. These guidelines come amid other hiring restrictions implemented at the cloud giant, which employees say are further tanking already low morale. In some cases, hiring managers are being asked to backfill formerly US-based roles with candidates from Eastern Europe to save money. Oracle is trying to cut $1 billion in costs and has already had two rounds of layoffs in recent months.
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