Facebook unveils Horizon Workrooms for remote co-working in VR. Facebook is launching its open beta for Horizon Workrooms, a way for people to work together remotely in groups with VR headsets..With no end to the Covid-19 pandemic in sight, it looks like many of us may be working home for even longer than we initially imagined.Facebook is capitalizing on that with the release of its new virtual...

Adobe announced today it is acquiring Frame.io, a video review and collaboration platform used by over a million customers, for $1.275 billion in cash.Founded in 2014 by post-production company owner Emery Wells and technologist John Traver, New York-based Frame.io was created to solve the workflows challenges filmmakers faced in their daily lives. Today, the Frame.io platform helps creative pr...

Retail sales revenue for the tech industry in the U.S. will reach a record-breaking $487 billion in 2021 – a 7.5% jump year-over-year – powered by unprecedented consumer demand for tech related to work, school and lifestyle, according to a new report by (CTA)®.“The pandemic strengthened consumers’ relationship with technology forever,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CTA. “From wor...

Starday, a healthy and sustainable food products company, raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents.Equal Ventures and Slow Ventures co-led the round and were joined by Haystack, Great Oaks Venture Capital, XFactor Ventures, ABV and a group of angel investors.Chaz Flexman, co-founder and CEO, started the remote first company in late 2020 after leaving Pattern Brands....

Continuing to lead smart device innovation, OPPO teases its upcoming mobile phone camera technology online at the future imaging technology launch event. From a telephoto lens to greater stabilization, the features are rumored to go into production from the end of 2021 once miniaturization of the camera solutions are tried and tested. the announcements coincide with the tech company’s call for...

Unlike the West’s focus on individuality, a unified standard of beauty haunts Chinese women, so they require different messaging from Western brands. Beauty surgery has boomed in China over the past decade, as more and more beauty consumers feel pressure to conform to China’s rigid beauty standards.Young China’s beauty ideals differ from the individuality of the West, prizing a “white, thin...

From Louis Vuitton to Cartier, these are the world's most valuable luxury brands of 2021.The other most valuable luxury brands include Prada, Rolex, Gucci among the top 10, according to a study by Brand Z/Kantar[forbes]

Could the Cybertruck boast some artful windows? Possibly, but it seems a tad over the top.The Tesla Cybertruck may not be coming this year, but the automaker's clearly busy sorting out what the production electric pickup truck will bring to the road. In a new patent application Tesla filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office this month, the automaker described a glass-forming method that in...

Nvidia’s Omniverse, billed as a “metaverse for engineers,” has grown to more than 50,000 users. But Nvidia now hopes to dramatically expand this base with the addition of millions of Blender users who use a simple tool to create 3D imagery.At the online Siggraph visual computing event, Nvidia announced it is launching a major expansion of the Omniverse, the simulation and collaboration platf...