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Accenture bolsters industrial AI services with Flutura acquisition

Professional services giant Accenture has announced the acquisition of Flutura, an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Bangalore, India. The acquisition strengthens Accenture’s own industrial AI services, as it looks to boost the performance of plants, refineries, and supply chains, as well as help clients hit their net zero…

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OPINION - The metaverse might be unpopular, but haptics might change that

Many believe the future will be about haptics

Evening Standard

HTC’s New Vive Tracker Is an Easier Way to Track Legs in the Metaverse

HTC's new Vive Tracker for VR uses cameras and inside-out tracking instead of a separate base station to bring your legs into VR and the metaverse. Will Meta copy with its own leg trackers for the Quest headsets?

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Metaverse museums to chemical robot farms - full list of 11 Glasgow innovation projects sharing £100m Levelling Up funding

Project 'will support key economic aims of increasing productivity, delivering inclusive growth and achieving net zero'

Insider UK

Virtua Fighter NFTs combine "blockchain-based NFTs with three titles from the Virtua Fighter series"

And they will "will serve as a base for future Metaverse avatars"

GamesRadar

Second Life’s Mobile Metaverse Should be Everything Horizon Worlds Isn’t

Both Second Life and Horizon Worlds are trying to reach new users on mobile, but only one platform has legs.

Inverse

This week in the metaverse: Yuga Labs adds to NFT game, The Sandbox opens a virtual Irish pub, and Silicon Valley Bank spooks Web3 traders

Yuga Labs builds upon Dookey Dash with a new collection, a virtual Irish pub opens in The Sandbox, and Silicon Valley Bank takes a toll on NFT traders.

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Meta's metaverse is on the back burner

The company formerly known as Facebook is talking more about AI than the metaverse these days.

Axios

Pokémon Job Listing Hints the Company is Exploring NFTs

The Pokémon Company is looking for an expert in blockchain tech, NFTs, and the metaverse.

Inverse

Facebook and Instagram NFTs dropped 6 months after U.S. debut as more Meta layoffs loom

The company said it would still support creators who use Instagram and Facebook to amplify their work.

Fortune

Vitalik Buterin endorses NFT collection, Starbucks builds on its Web3 ambitions, and Aéropostale is giving away Teslas

The Buterin-approved NFT collection originally launched on March 1, but secondary sales didn't explode until this week, when it claimed the top spot on OpenSea.

Fortune

T&B Media pins its hopes on metaverse

Entertainment firm T&B Media Global (Thailand) expects its new "Translucia Metaverse" project to be a growth engine over the next three years, generating economic value of 1 trillion baht by 2030.

Bangkok Post

UAE To Launch AI-Powered Digital Teachers To Support Students

UAE, one of the leaders in new technology, intends to deploy digital teachers powered by AI to create teaching methods.

Zenger

Gen Z would rather go viral than sell out Wembley

The research reveals what success looks like for the future of our creative industries

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Zuckerberg warned not to open Horizon Worlds to minors

Democrats from New England call the Meta chief's purported attempt to attract teenagers to his Horizon Worlds as 'just another flagrant attempt to exploit young people for profit'.

Fortune

Here's the week's top NFT and metaverse news

NFT volume reached $2 billion—the highest level since May.

The Independent UK

Flights and firefighting: Companies push into the metaverse

The push is still on for the metaverse even as doubts of its viability have been creeping in as the initial hype wears off

Axios

AI and ChatGPT are selling cars in the metaverse

It's one of ChatGPT's first practical business applications.

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The Conversation

Billions have been sunk into virtual reality. To make it worth it, the industry needs to grow beyond its walled gardens

Despite recent waves of Big Tech layoffs, billions of dollars have been sunk into virtual reality (VR) hardware and software over the past few years.

The Independent UK

MWC mobile tech fair to show off new phones, AI, metaverse

The latest folding-screen smartphones, immersive metaverse experiences, AI-powered chatbot avatars and other eye-catching technology are set to wow visitors at the annual MWC wireless trade fair

Reuters

Colombia court moves to metaverse to host hearing

A Colombian court this month hosted its first legal trial in the metaverse, and now hopes to experiment again with virtual reality, authorities told Reuters.

Fortune

This week in the metaverse: BlackRock's new ETF, Titanic artifacts as NFTs, and a Snow Crash Sotheby’s auction

The new BlackRock ETF invests in a bundle of public companies, including Meta, Nvidia, and Apple.

Financial Times

Metaverse creator Neal Stephenson on the future of virtual reality

The writer who invented the metaverse concept on why he decided to get involved in building it — and the trouble with AI

The Guardian - UK

Crypto firm with links to parliamentary groups appears to have vanished

Apparent disappearance of Phoenix Community Capital leaves some investors fearing they have lost large sums of money

Tribune News Service

How a TikToker used her platform to promote citizen science efforts in Ohio

PITTSBURGH — After being catapulted into the viral metaverse of TikTok, what began as a "slapdash initial document" transformed into a multipronged database encouraging citizen science in East Palestine, Ohio.

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