Review week: Meta reveals her smart glasses Oakley

Welcome to the week as a review! Many in stores for you today, including the latest WIX acquisition, the new smart glasses from Meta, an overview of the new DIGG, and much more. Have a great weekend!

Intelligent specifications: Meta and Oakley have teamed up with a new pair of smart glasses This can record a 3K video, play music, manage calls and respond to Meta AI prompts. They start at $ 399 and have double the life of the Meta rays rays battery. An Oakley Meta HSTN model in a limited edition of $ 499 will be available from July 11.

Unicorn watch: Wix Bought Base44 in 6 -month solo startup For 80 million dollars in cash after quickly gaining ground as a code -free IA tool to create web applications. Created by a single founder and already profitable, basic Rapid Rise44 made it irresistible.

Sand with the rescue: Finland just on the largest sand battery in the world – Yes, the real sand – which stores the heat to help power the heating system of the small town of Pornainen and cut its carbon emissions. The low -cost and low -cost content system is built from throttleded stone fire, is housed in a giant silo and can store heat for weeks, proving that you don’t need fantasy lithium to fight climate change. You just need a bunch of hot rocks.

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News

We are back, baby: Vanmoof is back from the edge with the S6His first electric bike since bankruptcy – and he sticks to his personalized signature design, although this was almost killed the business. Supported by McLaren Tech and a reinforced repair network, the new Vanmoof promises smoother walks, smarter characteristics and (hopefully) fewer blocked cyclists.

Spatial lasers: Baiju Bhatt, better known for having co-founded Robinhood, is Now build lasers in space. His new startup, Aetherflux, has collected $ 60 million to prove that the solar energy bin from Orbit is not a fantasy, with a demonstration satellite that will be launched next year and the early support of the Ministry of Defense.

Oh no: One of SpaceX Starship rockets exploded during a test In Texas, probably repelling the next launch of the vehicle, which had been temporarily set for June 29. SpaceX says that the explosion, caused by a failure of the pressure reservoir, did not injure anyone, but it is another reverse of a rocky year for the ambitious program of the company.

This feeling without loss: The long -awaited audio level of spotify has still not been launched, but New indices buried in the latest application code Suggest that it is under active development and could be closer than ever. But with years of delays and no official calendar, fans might want to temper their excitement until Spotify confirms the deployment.

I can dig it: Digg restarts A Entered alpha tests with a new iOS application aimed at becoming a reddit alternative from the Ai-Ai era. The application offers a clean and simple design with organized communities, summaries of articles fueled by AI and gamified features such as “gems” and daily rankings.

We want you: THE US Navy accelerates how it works with startupsCut administrative formalities and focus on real victories like time has saved time and better morale. The Ministry of the CTO of the Navy Justin Fanelli says that it leads with problems, the hunt for technology that changes the situation in AI, GPS and system upgrades. And with the Silicon Valley which is finally careful, the navy becomes an essential partner for innovators ready to make things happen.

Cash is not king: Mark Zuckerberg is launching solid money – up to $ 100 million – To attract the best talents of Openai and Deepmind AI. But Sam Altman of Openai says that none of his key people has bitten, praising the mission of his team on money. Meanwhile, Openai continues to advance new AI models and even refers to the launch of a social application fueled by AI which could go beyond the own meta attempts.

Before leaving

The last San Francisco startup saga? After-Party de Cluelley for the startup School of YC exploded on Twitter, drawing 2,000 celebration crashers, but it became the “The legest party that has never occurred“After being closed by the cops before a only drink was overturned. The viral marketing of the founder Roy Lee may have promised chaos, but the real party pending. Maybe once time is warming up?