Mark Zuckerberg demos a tool for building virtual worlds using voice commands

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, today showed off a prototype of an AI system that enables people to generate or import things into a virtual world just by using voice commands. The company sees the tool, which is called “Builder

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80-unit residential building for low-income and unhoused Indigenous people opens in Seattle

The Chief Seattle Club has opened the doors to ʔálʔal, an 80-unit apartment building reserved for low-income and unhoused urban Natives in Washington’s King County. ʔálʔal, pronounced “all-all,” means “home” in Lushootseed, an Indigenous language spoken by local Salish tribes.

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Bezos’ Blue Origin is building more rockets to meet ‘robust demand’ for space tourism, CEO says

A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off with a crew of six, including Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the first American in space Alan Shepard, for whom the spacecraft is named, from Launch Site One in west Texas,

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An Alabama Building Honors a Klan Leader. Officials Are Adding a Black Student’s Name.

His name has been stripped from structures at other schools in the state, including Troy University, Alabama State University and Jacksonville State University, according to The Montgomery Advertiser, which has re-examined his legacy as governor. “The argument has been made

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Fire Erupts at Brooklyn Building Under Construction

More than 100 firefighters responded to a fire at a building under construction that collapsed in Brooklyn on Monday, officials said. Just before 6 a.m. Eastern, firefighters were called to the corner of Gates Avenue and Nostrand Avenue in the

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Merdeka 118 is The World’s Second-Tallest Building

Image: Fender Katsalidis Merdeka 118, located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has officially topped out at 118 stories. Standing at 2,227 feet, it is set to become the world’s second-tallest building come 2022. It surpasses the 2,073-foot Shanghai

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China to stop building coal plants in developing nations

Enlarge / Coal plants at the end of the line? Chinese President Xi Jinping used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly to announce a major new step towards controlling global emissions. After reiterating his own country’s climate pledges,

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