Facebook owner Meta has announced the imminent launch of what’s being billed as a ‘Twitter killer’.
The new platform, called Threads, has a dashboard reminiscent of the Elon Musk-owned original and is “text based conversation” software integrated into Instagram.
It comes as Twitter announces its TweetDeck dashboard will only be available for paid verified users in a month’s time.
The first electric flying car apparently able to take to the skies as easily as the roads has been signed off for further testing by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
California startup Alef Automotive claims its $300,000, two-seater Model A vehicle powered by eight propellers can even be parked just like a regular car after its vertically landed.
Google claims to hit a major milestone in supercomputing by building a quantum system exponentially more powerful than a traditional machine.
In the battle for “quantum supremacy”, the search giant says its super-machine can make calculations in an instant that would take the current fastest computer half a century to complete.
As Wimbledon fortnight kicks off, tennis brand Wilson has been telling us about their ‘naked’ tennis racket, which has no paint, zero-waste packaging, and is made of recyclable polymer Agiplast.
Plus, study suggests smartwatches could help to early identification of Parkinson’s disease, universities look at “ethical” AI use, map plan for fuel pumps and weather satellite reveals stunning lightning photos.
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