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We had the chance to test out Meta's Orion AR glasses at Meta Connect prior to Mark Zuckerberg's on-stage reveal. Here's how they work, what we loved about them, and what still needs work.



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A medical radiology technician prepares a CT scan of mummified remains.
  • Technology has revolutionized the way we see mummified remains from ancient Egypt. 
  • With CT scans, Egyptologists can see remains in unprecedented detail without unwrapping them.
  • Here are eight recent findings using this technology that changed the way we think of mummies.

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Meta’s AI assistant has always been the most intriguing feature of its second-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses. While the generative AI assistant had fairly limited capabilities when the glasses launched last fall, the addition of real-time information and multimodal capabilities offered a range of new possibilities for the accessory.

Now, Meta is significantly upgrading the Ray-Ban Meta smart



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Meta AI can now talk in celebrity voices.
  • Meta AI now includes visual and voice capabilities, Meta announced Wednesday at its Connect event.
  • The chatbot can now edit photos you share and answer questions about what's in them.
  • The chatbot can also talk to you in celebrity voices like John Cena's and Keegan-Michael Key's.

Meta AI has moved beyond typing — the chatbot can now see and speak.

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Meta just revealed the budget-friendly Quest 3S VR headset at its annual Connect keynote event, but it also made a sad announcement about some of its previous headsets. The company will stop selling both the Quest 2 and the Quest Pro by the end of the year.

“With Quest 3S on the shelf, we’re officially winding down sales of Quest 2 and Pro. We’ll be selling our remaining headsets through the end



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Donald Trump is shielded by Secret Service agents after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July.
  • A Senate report laid out Secret Service failures prior to Trump's assassination attempt.
  • The agency failed to plan, communicate, and coordinate, the report said.
  • The Secret Service told BI it had begun implementing many of the committee's suggested fixes.

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Over the last year, Meta has made its AI assistant so ubiquitous in its apps it’s almost hard to believe that Meta AI is only a year old. But, one year after its launch at the last Connect, the company is infusing Meta AI with a load of new features in the hopes that more people will find its assistant useful.

One of the biggest changes is that users will be able to have voice chats with Meta AI



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While the users can interact with Meta AI by talking, they can experience replies in the AI voices of Awkwafina, Dame Judi Dench, John Cena, Keegan Michael Key, and Kristen Bell.



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The Meta Quest 3S has the same CPU, RAM, weight, and game library as the Quest 3 while costing $200 less. We'll help you decide if you can live with the budget downgrades that come with it, or if you want the Quest 3.



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Meta has announced a new virtual reality headset, and it's called the Quest 3S. As rumored, this is a lower-cost variant of the Meta Quest 3, which we consider the best VR headset for most people. At $300, it looks to be a suitable entry-level replacement for the popular but aging Quest 2. Meta is aiming it squarely at VR newbies, those upgrading from an older headset and anyone else who's been