Experimenting with sustainable design and technology, NASA and Boeing have unveiled the X-66A aircraft.

 

By reducing the fuselage and changing the wings and engines on an MD-90 aircraft, Boeing is modifying the model in collaboration with NASA. (Image courtesy of NASA)

On Monday, NASA announced that the United States Air Force had given the plane it created with Boeing the X-66A designation. The design of next sustainable single-aisle aircraft will be influenced by the new experimental aircraft.

Boeing was given a $425 million contract by NASA earlier this year to develop, test, and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft and verify technology aimed at reducing emissions. NASA made the announcement earlier this year.

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"At NASA, we obsess not just on the stars but also on the sky. The Sustainable Flight Demonstrator expands on NASA's pioneering work in both climate change and aviation. In a news release issued on Monday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson claimed that the X-66A will "help shape the future of aviation, a new era where aircraft are greener, cleaner, and quieter, and create new possibilities for the flying public and American industry alike."

Songs may now be added to Instagram Notes.

Users of Instagram notes may send text messages, emoticons, and music to their close friends and followers.

Instagram users may now include up to 30 seconds of music in their notes along with a text message or an emoji, according to an announcement made by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, on the official Meta channel. Users may now share audio clips on Instagram notes that last up to 30 seconds and are available for 24 hours thanks to this upgrade.

Only accessible in the conversation area, Notes is a condensed version of Instagram's status function. Users could previously only submit text and emoticons as notes on the app, but now they may now share well-known songs and audio clips from the company's enormous music collection.

These music notes may be changed or deleted at any moment, and users can control who has access to them, including followers and close friends. We were unable to use the Instagram music notes function on either Android or iOS smartphones at the time this article was published.

Amazon could soon provide automated, summary reviews on products.

The e-commerce behemoth is presently developing a function in its shopping app that summarises user feedback using AI.

A recent job advertisement by Amazon made mention of a ChatGPT-like search experience last month. (Express photo)

The most revolutionary technology of the past ten years, generative AI, has drawn billions of dollars in investment from several businesses looking for a competitive edge. Following up on a previous study from last month, a new research provides further information about how Amazon is incorporating artificial intelligence into its platform to assist shoppers in finding the perfect product.

The major online retailer has started testing a function in its shopping app that summarises consumer ratings of items using AI. The feature gives a concise summary of what customers liked and disliked about the product, along with a note indicating the summary was produced by AI.

The study, for instance, described a kid-friendly cauldron toy called "Magic Mixies." While some consumers of the toy enjoyed it for its "fun factor, appearance, value, performance, quality, charging, and leakage," the AI-generated product summary noted that the majority of customers thought $100 was too much to pay for the toy. The report also emphasised problems some clients had with the cost and calibre of the goods.

US FTC seeks the court to prevent Microsoft from purchasing Activision

The FTC requested a federal judge to halt any final agreement before 11:59 p.m. ET on June 15, claiming Microsoft and Activision had indicated the transaction may complete as soon as this Friday.

In this illustration from January 18, 2022, the Activision Blizzard logo is featured on top of a smartphone with the Microsoft logo. Reuters / Illustration by Dado Ruvic

On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission requested a judge to temporarily delay Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard in order to prevent the $69 billion transaction from going through before the government's case against it is heard.

The FTC said Microsoft and Activision had signaled the deal could close as soon as Friday and asked a federal judge to block any final agreement before 11:59 p.m ET June 15.

The FTC said the deal, which would be the largest for Microsoft and the largest in the history of the video game industry, would give Microsoft the “ability and increased incentive to withhold or degrade Activision’s content in ways that substantially lessen competition.”

One thing is obvious... Future goals for Apple and Meta are extremely different.

 Even if Apple's Vision Pro is not without faults, Cupertino appears to have a different idea of what a face computer ought to be.

Many immediately assumed that Cupertino's ambition for a "spatial computer" was identical to Meta's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's drive into the Metaverse when Apple unveiled the ambition Pro at its WWDC conference last week. In fact, a significant portion of people, including Zuckerberg, made fun of the Vision Pro for being "expensive," "magical," and "antisocial." Apple aficionados may be incensed at Zuckerberg's response to the Vision Pro, but if you carefully read his remarks, it becomes obvious that Apple and Meta have quite different expectations for the future.

The two brands differ from one another in numerous respects, including methods and messaging. While Apple adopted a different strategy with the Vision Pro, referring to it as a generic computing platform that provides numerous experiences, while Meta totally rethought its Metaverse strategy with a headset that will be necessary to experience a single experience (like gaming, for example). You may view the current internet via a different perspective with The Vision Pro. Then things start to get interesting because, unlike Meta, Apple isn't attempting to create Internet 2.0 or the Metaverse, which Mark Zuckerberg envisions as a fully fledged digital environment existing outside of the one in which we already live.

The absence of terms like "headset," "virtual reality," and "metaverse" from Apple's announcement of the Vision Pro may be due to this. In addition to helping Apple differentiate the Vision Pro from its rivals, Cupertino's decision served as a kind of proof of how disastrous the Metaverse was, both as a concept and the course it took.