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Promising Virtual Reality Stocks To Follow Now - January 28th
Mega-Cap Earnings Could Decide the Tech Sector's Next Big Move Meta Platforms, zSpace, The Glimpse Group, and DIH Holding US are the five Virtual Reality stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Virtual reality stocks…
Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won't be any better
Earlier this month, Meta laid off 10% of the staff for Reality Labs, its virtual reality unit, reportedly cutting as many as 1,000 employees. Now, in a development that seems directly related, the company has revealed that the unit lost many…
Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year
To stay competitive in the artificial intelligence race, Meta increased its spending on data centers last year and began shifting away from virtual reality. On Wednesday, the company said it would bet even bigger this year. Meta, which owns…
Meta wows Wall Street despite spending billions on AI and facing social media addiction trial
As Meta spends billions on artificial intelligence data centers and its CEO prepares to testify in a landmark social media trial, the company is earning a pretty penny. Meta reported strong financial results on Wednesday, beating Wall Street…
Mark Zuckerberg says Reality Labs will (eventually) stop losing so much money
Mark Zuckerberg says there's an end in sight to Reality Labs' years of multibillion-dollar losses following the company's layoffs to the metaverse division earlier this year. The CEO said he expects to 'gradually reduce' how much money the company…
Zuckerberg Shares Vision of an AI-Powered Future
Get ready for a new era of digital connection and engagement, where social platforms reflect your personal needs and desires, without you having to do anything more than use them, with AI tools getting increasingly good at understanding a broader…
Meta's Reality Labs posts $6.02 billion loss in fourth quarter
Meta's efforts to create the digital worlds known as the metaverse continue to be costly. The social media giant reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday and said that the Reality Labs unit recorded an operating loss of $6.02 billion on $955…
Anduril is giving $500,000 and a job to whoever wins its AI-powered drone racing grand prix
Lights out and away we go… on your next job application. But for this one, put aside your CV and interview-question AI bot. To secure the job, just place first in a global autonomous drone racing competition. That's how defense industry…
Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media
Who has time for the metaverse when you can try AI-generated inspo content instead? Who has time for the metaverse when you can try AI-generated inspo content instead? Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Emma Roth is a news writer who…
Snap establishes Specs subsidiary for its AR glasses
Snap on Wednesday said its unit working on the development of augmented reality glasses is now housed under a wholly owned subsidiary named Specs Inc. The company said the subsidiary will provide 'greater operational focus and alignment' as Snap…
Meta set to report earnings: Update on revamped AI strategy is key to fourth quarter
Meta on Wednesday will report fourth-quarter earnings, and investors will be looking for any signs that its revamped artificial intelligence strategy will benefit the company in 2026. The social media giant spent a large chunk of 2025 overhauling…
Meta earnings live - latest on AI, smart glasses and all the big news as it happens
At this point, most of Meta's earnings come from digital advertising. Yet Apple just invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI in June and brought over CEO Alexandr Wang and other top talent from the company. But Meta is spending billions (between $70…
Edinburgh University to give robots more human-like abilities thanks to a £50 glove
The technology, which detects hand gestures and subtle movements with high precision, uses liquid‑metal sensors embedded in silicone to detect changes in electrical charges as the fingers bend or move. Dr Yunjie Yang, who led the study…
CT college receives $3 million gift from alumna. It will help fund 'cutting-edge technology'
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After a $3 million gift from an alumna, Albertus Magnus College is partnering with Dreamscape Learn, an immersive education technology. According to a statement by the college, the gift will launch a…
Tech layoffs in January 2026: From Amazon to Pinterest, list of companies cutting jobs
5 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google 2026 has begun with a new round of layoffs and firings in the tech industry, as the first few weeks of January saw big tech companies such as Amazon and Meta announce job cuts. Although the…
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