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📺 Stunning text-to-video tech
🕹️ Xbox console's 'technical leap'
🥽 Vision Pro deadline
🔘 Smart ring experience

OpenAI says AI-powered Sora can create realistic scenes based on text prompts, and the examples that it has shared are really something special.

The Microsoft-backed company served up a wide range of videos to show off the new tech, including Cyberpunk-esque Tokyo streets and "historical footage" of California during the Gold Rush. There's more, too, including an extreme close-up of a human eye.

"Sora is able to generate complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background," OpenAI said but added that it may currently "struggle with accurately simulating the physics" of particularly complex scenes.

Sora is now being tested by select users prior to a wider rollout ...

Gaming giant Xbox has made a mighty big promise regarding the next version of its gaming console.

It involves a headline-grabbing claim that its next console will represent “the largest technical leap in a hardware generation,” though the details have yet to be shared.

“Many people know I’ve been on Xbox for over 20 years, and I want to make sure Xbox is in the best position for the next 20 years,” Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft gaming, said during the podcast.

The CEO also addressed recent rumors regarding Xbox games losing their exclusivity by confirming that four titles will be going multiplatform. Spencer didn’t reveal which ones but implied that it’s two community-driven titles and two smaller games — and that Starfield and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle aren’t involved ...

Today marks the two-week deadline for the first Vision Pro customers to return their headsets if they no longer want them. Apple has a general two-week return policy for hardware, and that means February 16 for customers who received their Vision Pro on launch day on February 2.

Some Vision Pros have already been taken back, according to multiple news reports. That’s not necessarily alarming news for Apple, as some of those returns will be from people who simply wanted to "borrow" the device to see what it's like, while others may be influencers who’ve now made their videos and social media posts and so have no further use for it.

Still, there will be some who just couldn’t get on with the Vision Pro, and it’s these folks whom Apple will be most interested in ...

The second half of my 2023 was genuinely awful, and my Oura Ring showed exactly the impact it had on my sleep and body.

While the smart ring could never do anything about it, understanding how what I was experiencing was affecting me was fascinating, terrifying, and oddly reassuring.

It hammered home the point that wearing a health tracking device isn’t only about counting steps; it’s about recognizing when somewhat silent alterations in your physical health occur over time so you can do something about them. But it also reminded me that paying too much attention to health data isn’t always a good thing ...

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