Ayayi has joined the list of virtual influencers and her appearance is eerily realistic. Her appearance does sometimes look artificial but is still very realistic, especially considering that it was created by a computer program. Big brands will now pay large sums of money to fund their design and animation.

Apple's next big fall event will take place on Tuesday, September 14th at 1PM ET, another virtual event broadcast from Apple Park. The company typically announces the year's new iPhones at the fall event, and this year’s entry is expected to be called the iPhone 13.

The new trend in crypto gaming is to create characters and take them on adventures, and purchase in-game items and traits, all for games that don't even exist yet. While there are no guarantees of any future utility, these items are selling for millions, with those offering the items having no plans to build the game.

Researchers in California have developed and tested an experimental brain implant that translates brain signals into words on a computer screen, marking a step toward technology that may help people speak by thinking, offering hope for thousands of people who lose the ability to speak due to injury and illness.

The Hyundai and Vans partnerships with Roblox offer the latest sign that marketers are taking the metaverse seriously, loosely referring to shared virtual spaces that bridge offline and online worlds, with massively multiplayer games like Rob lox and Fortnite oft-cited examples.

The first six months of 2021 have seen a more than 100-percent growth in cyberattacks against internet-of-things devices, detected more than 1.5 billion IoT attacks, up from 639 million during the previous half year. The end result of attacks on IoT gear is being used to steal personal or corporate data and mine cryptocurrencies.

After initially failing to capture a rock sample, NASA has confirmed that Perseverance succeeded in its second attempt, having verified that a pencil-width core of rust-coloured rock is safely trapped in the rover's sample tube, ready to be processed and sent back to Earth. The space agency determined that the particular sample it tried to collect was actually too powdery to be collected.

Microsoft's Top Gun expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator is being delayed to match the movie's release date. The expansion will be released on May 27th, 2022, as Paramount announced earlier this month that it is delaying the rest of its 2021 films. The company is still unsure of what they will add with the expansion.

Germany is planning to change the current norm of software update for its flagship devices to improve their ownership experience. The country's government has also proposed a seven year mandatory security update for the country's smartphones. This is a move that would require the European EU to require five years for the update.

The Galaxy Watch 4 is Samsung and Google's attempt to compete with Apple's smartwatch. The Android smartwatch comes in two designs and four sizes, starting at £249 ($250) for the Watch 4 and £349 ($350) for The Watch 4 Classic. The two designs have the same chips, features and screen sizes, but the stainless steel Classic has a jog-dial-like rotating bezel controller.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 is the best smartwatch for Android but it is not a giant leap ahead of its predecessors nor a tremendous relaunch of Google's Wear OS efforts. The switch to Wear OS 3 hasn't hurt functionality and will probably pay dividends later on. However, the addition of Google Maps, Pay and the Play Store gives Samsung a better experience with better integration with smartphones.

The aviation industry’s concerns revolve around a piece of equipment called a radar altimeter, used by all kinds of aircraft to measure altitude, the distance between the aircraft and the ground, working by transmitting a signal toward the ground then determining altitude based on the time it takes the signal to reflect off the ground and back to the aircraft.

The aviation industry's concerns revolve around a radar altimeter, used by all kinds of aircraft to measure altitude, and determine altitude based on the time it takes the signal to reflect off the ground and back to the aircraft. The FCC warned that if C-band services interfere with radar altimeters, major disruptions to passenger air travel, commercial transport, and critical helicopter services.

NASA has started testing Joby Aviation's electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle for its Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign, collecting vehicle performance and acoustic data for the modeling and simulation of future airspace concepts.