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According to Lowpass newsletter from Janko Roettgers, when Horizon was launched, Meta executives had said that they were planning to launch a mobile app for it as well.Now, Meta’s metaverse VP Vishal Shah claimed that the company had actually built a working version of the app a year ago.”We ended up not shipping it,” Shah said.”It was a little bit too much of a VR game on mobile as opposed to a mobile-native experience,” he added.The Horizon team completely rebuilt the application, according to Shah.He didn’t tell Roettgers when exactly the app will launch.Shah said that one of the first…

Monaco, July 29 (IANS) Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz has been provisionally suspended from all competitions after a positive doping test, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday night. The 29-year-old Brazilian was found to have traces of the performance-enhancing drug ostarine in his urine following a routine test.He will face a tribunal hearing and could be banned for up to four years if found guilty, a Xinhua report said.The AIU did not disclose when the sample was taken.Braz competed in two Diamond League events in Europe in July and is preparing for the World Championships in Budapest…

The President will visit the Auroville International Township on August 8 and inaugurate the plenary session of a day-long conference, ‘Aspiring for the Supermind at the city of consciousness’.In a statement, the Auroville International Foundation said that Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi and Lt. Governor of Puducherry Tamilisai Soundararajanwill also participate in the meeting.The Auroville Foundation will also conduct essay competitions for children and youth. Besides, G20 and Y29 International Spiritual Summit will also be held as part of the birth anniversary celebration.–IANSaal/shb

At an internal meeting at Meta on Thursday, an employee asked Zuckerberg when the anticipated cage match will happen, reports Gizmodo.To this, Zuckerberg responded: “I don’t know. I don’t have any kind of official update on this. I mean, as you all know, I love fighting. It’s maybe a second place pastime for me beyond building things, where building things is my number one love, fighting might be number two.””I’ve done jiu jitsu competitions. I would love to do an MMA competition at some point. I wasn’t expecting this to be the one that I did. I’m not sure if…

The weatherman has predicted generally cloudy sky with moderate rain in the city during the day while the maximum temperature expected to hover around 34 degrees Celsius. The relative humidity at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday morning was recorded at 96 per cent. The IMD has predicted that Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh and East Rajasthan are likely to experience light to moderate fairly widespread to widespread rainfall on Saturday. –IANS ssh/ksk

AIADMK general secretary and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, EdappadiK. Palaniswami (EPS) on Saturday skipped the inaugural function of the BJP president’s padayatra and instead deputed party leader and MLA Udhayakumar.Notably, the padayatra, ‘En Mann, En Makkal’ (My land, My people) was flagged off by BJP leader and Union Home minister Amit Shah in the temple town of Rameswaram.Sources in the AIADMK told IANS that Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) hadgiven a strong message to Annamalai that he was not equal to the former Chief Minister and hence a lower level party functionary wasbeingdeputed.However, a senior leader of the AIADMK…

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar held the meeting on Friday at the headquarters of the UN (UN)-led Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), which investigates the fate of hundreds of people from both the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities, reports Xinhua news agency.”The two leaders called on all those who have information about possible sites of burial to share it with CMP as reliable information can accelerate the process of locating, exhuming and identifying the remains of missing persons,” said a joint statement issued by the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).CMP data shows that…

“At the summit (in Camp David), the leaders will celebrate a new chapter in their trilateral relationship as they reaffirm their strong bonds of friendship and the ironclad alliances between the US and Japan, and the US and the Republic of Korea,” Yonhap News Agency quoted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as saying in a statement on Friday, referring to South Korea by its official name.The leaders will mainly discuss threats posed by North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile programs, according to Jean-Pierre.”The three leaders will discuss expanding trilateral cooperation across the Indo-Pacific and beyond — including to address…

A small set of APIs can be misused to collect data about users’ devices through fingerprinting, which is prohibited by Apple Developer Programme License Agreement.”To prevent the misuse of these APIs, developers will need to declare the reasons for using these APIs in their app’s privacy manifest. This will help ensure that apps only use these APIs for their intended purpose,” the tech giant said in a statement.As part of this process, developers will need to select one or more approved reasons that accurately reflect how their apps use the API, and the apps can only use the API for…

Pending approval of the joint bid, which is very likely by all indications, it means the two countries would be virtually assured to host the 2032 event, while UK and Ireland are now all but guaranteed to host the 2028 edition of the tournament.The hosts for both editions will be announced on October 10, Xinhua reported.Italy announced its candidacy for the 2032 tournament in April, followed soon after by Turkey, who submitted its candidacy for both the 2028 and 2032 events. Turkey and the joint bid from the four United Kingdom federations and Ireland were the main two candidates for…