Every year, The State of the Octoverse analyzes data from millions of developers and repositories to share trends across working habits, productivity, and overall career satisfaction. This year we’re excited to share the patterns we’ve seen across the community as well as three deeper dives on shipping code, creating documentation, and sustaining communities.We’ve also extended our research...

Reality Labs is working on clothing that helps you feel things in the metaverse.On Tuesday afternoon, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, made a supposedly exciting announcement: a glove. But not just any glove. It’s a haptic glove lined with tiny motors that use bursts of air to mimic the sense of touch, and it looks like a wearable nightmare.There’s nothing necessarily wrong with...

Anyword, an AI-powered platform for fine-tuning marketing copy, today announced that it raised $21 million in a financing round led by Innovation Endeavors with participation from Lead Capital and Gandyr Ventures. CEO Yaniv Makover says that the proceeds, which bring the company’s total raised to $30 million, will be used to bolster hiring, build out Anyword’s technology, and onboarding custo...

We’re approaching a future where car drive platforms will be white-label goods from Foxconn-like suppliers. Differentiation will be much harder.The future of car design is all about skateboards and top hats. The former refers to the flat, often self-supporting chassis of an electric vehicle, housing a large battery pack in the middle and motors at either end, along with the suspension, brakes...

‘Robotaxis will be disruptive to conventional taxis and ride-hailing, but not car ownership’, says new reportRobotaxis remain one of the most pursued applications for autonomous vehicle technologies today, with many developers envisioning an end to – or at least a significant reduction in – car ownership.Developers of autonomous vehicles, specifically those focused on Level-4 self-driving v...

Analysts at Morgan Stanley say there’s scope for luxury goods makers to sell virtually as they do physically — and say the market could be as large as €50 billion, or $57 billion at current exchange rates, by 2030. That could lift revenue by more than 10%, and industry earnings before interest and tax by 25%.Analysts led by Edward Stanley point out that one in five gamers in Roblox change th...

Apple wins patent for a Foldable Device that could present content in one large image or Split Screen & double as a Notebook-Like Device.Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a possible future foldable device like an iPad that would be able to go into a second mode called the "joint operating mode" where one image could be seamlessly di...

Telcos are confident they can monetize 5G core in the B2B arena, but the value proposition for consumers is less clear. A slew of promising innovations could change that.Telco operators typically seek to pack their networks with as many customers as possible, while other sectors, such as airlines and hotels, occasionally leave space open. These empty seats and rooms may present as lost opportun...

BMW has standardized on a new technology unveiled by Nvidia, the Omniverse, to simulate every aspect of its manufacturing operations, in an effort to push the envelope on smart manufacturing.BMW has done this down to work order instructions for factory workers from 31 factories in its production network, reducing production planning time by 30%, the company said.During Nvidia’s GTC November 20...