Meta's AR/VR Business Lost $7.7 Billion in the Past 6 Months

From CNET: Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has reported an operating loss of $7.732 billion in its Reality Labs segment during the six months ended June 30. Reality Labs includes all of Meta's virtual reality and augmented reality hardware, software and content.

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Facebook surpasses 3 billion monthly active users

From TechCrunch: Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta’s latest quarterly report. That’s quite the staggering number. Even though Facebook has declined in popularity among younger people, the platform is far from dead. Across Meta’s entire family of apps — which...

Micron Announces World's Fastest HBM3 Gen2 Memory at 1.2 TB/s

From ExtremeTech: Today Micron is announcing its newest version of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI accelerators and high-performance computing (HPC). The company had previously offered HBM2 modules, but its newest memory technology is so advanced it's skipping right over first-generation HBM3 and...

Asus to Begin Production of Cable-Free GPUs This Year

From ExtremeTech: The "No Visible Cables" movement is gaining steam amongst PC hardware manufacturers. Earlier this year at Computex, several companies showed off motherboards and GPUs designed to make cable management easier, and one of the more interesting prototypes was from Asus. The company...

TSMC Plans $2.87 Billion Packaging Fab as German Fab Decision Looms

From Tom's Hardware: Although TSMC's revenue in the second quarter dropped by 10% year-over-year, the company is quite optimistic about the rebound of the semiconductor sector in the coming years. This is why it announced its intention to construct a new advanced chip packaging plant that will cost...

ESRB wants to scan kids’ faces to enforce game ratings

From PC World: The Entertainment Software Rating Board, better known as the ESRB, is the self-regulating body for video games in the United States. It’s the organization responsible for those E, T, and M ratings you see on video game boxes. Apparently the Board is preparing to not only rate games to...

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