Flying taxis always sounded like one of those futuristic ideas that looked good in articles, movies and concept videos but never quite arrived in real life. This week, that future came a little closer. Joby Aviation, which we covered before, began a series of piloted electric air taxi demonstration flights in New York, flying between…
OpenAI has officially announced the shutdown of Sora, its dedicated social media application, just six months after its high-profile launch. While the underlying Sora 2 generative model remains a technological milestone for video and audio synthesis, the standalone platform failed to maintain the necessary momentum to compete in the crowded social media landscape. Modeled after…
We know that 5G networks continue to expand globally, but looking ahead, Samsung Electronics has announced a significant technical breakthrough in the development of 6G connectivity. In collaboration with Keysight Technologies and the South Korean operator KT Corporation, Samsung successfully validated its eXtreme MIMO (X-MIMO) technology, reaching data speeds of 3 Gbps. The 7 GHz…
While WhatsApp dominates the global messaging market with over 3 billion users, security experts like Johns Hopkins University’s Matthew Green suggest that the platform’s ubiquity comes with significant privacy trade-offs. Recent legal challenges have accused Meta of maintaining “backdoors” to read messages, but Green argues that the real reasons to switch apps are far more…
