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Meta upgrades Horizon Worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, letting creators use AI prompts to build worlds, powered by its new "built from scratch" virtual engine (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780256/meta-horizon-worlds-engine-studio…

Meta is making the metaverse look better
At Connect 2025, Meta is sharing news about its Horizon Engine and the Horizon Studio for Horizon Worlds.

This is long, but hits on something that has been bothering me about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, too.
https://reactormag.com/bioessentialism-in-star-trek-strange-new-worlds/

In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Is Biology Destiny? - Reactor
Vulcans are logic machines, Gorn are monsters... or so Strange New Worlds might have us believe.

🤔 Do mega-sporting events like the World Series pay off? Here's the economic reality behind them
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Do mega-sporting events like the World Series pay off? Here's the economic reality behind them
Whether it's the World Series, the FIFA World Cup or the Olympic Games, the hope for hosting mega sporting events is that the economy will emerge as the true winner.

The world's carbon emissions continue to rise—but 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon #environment

The world's carbon emissions continue to rise—but 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon
Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to rise in 2025 to a new all-time high, with all sources—coal, gas, and oil—contributing to the increase.

OpenAI says its reasoning system solved all 12 problems at the 2025 ICPC World Finals, with GPT-5 solving 11 and an experimental model solving the last (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-outperforms…

OpenAI outperforms humans and Google at the world's top collegiate programming contest
An OpenAI system has solved every problem at the world’s most prestigious collegiate programming championship, outperforming not only human competitors but also Google's Deepmind model.

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition; only four out of 139 human teams won gold medals (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/go…

Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals
Gemini shows off at another high-level academic competition.

Meta rolls out Hyperscape Capture in early access, letting developers and creators use Quest 3 devices to scan a room and turn it into a VR space in minutes (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/meta-launches-hyper…

Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR | TechCrunch
Meta launches Hyperscape into beta, allowing users to turn real world spaces into digital spaces for VR.