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The new independent version of the VR fitness app Supernatural has launched in Early Access on Meta Quest. No further details were provided in the report.

Nvidia claims that its new DLSS 5 model is twice as fast as the version released in September and requires 20% less VRAM at 4K. These figures are provided by Nvidia and have not been independently tested. DLSS 5 uses AI to add lighting and material detail to a finished frame.

NASA JPL is looking ahead to the next 90 years of innovation and exploration, which includes interstellar probes, lunar drones, and helicopters on Mars. The lab was founded by Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts in 1936 and is currently managed by Caltech for NASA.

Meta AI is now available on Quest headsets in the UK, Australia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore, arriving with Horizon OS v2.9 and enabled in headset settings. Meta says the assistant also adds seven languages: German, French, Korean, Japanese, British English, Spanish and Italian.

Waymo has started offering rides at the Las Vegas airport, with pickups and dropoffs taking place at dedicated autonomous vehicle zones at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.

The subscription-based VR fitness app Supernatural has re-launched into early access on Quest after spinning out from Meta earlier this summer. It is now run by Supernatural Health, a 15-person independent team, and involves dodging, squatting and hitting orbs to the beat.

AMD's machine-learning upscaler FSR 4.1 now runs on Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards, the RDNA 2 generation first sold in 2020, arriving in the Adrenalin 26.10.1 driver. AMD says it also reaches Ryzen AI laptops and Z2 handhelds; previously the newest FSR version required an RX 7000 or newer card.

Japan has launched the Martian Moons eXploration mission, which aims to return 10 grams of material from Mars's moon Phobos back to Earth.

Perseverance achieved a major milestone on Mars, reaching 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles) on Sol 2006, setting a new record for the farthest distance driven on another celestial body.

According to Scientific American, an authoritative new report offers suggestions on where astronauts should go on the moon beyond building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole. The available context does not name the specific sites.

Psytec Games says Titan Isles, its co-op VR shooter, has added a fifth playable exo suit called Cage. The suit can reportedly fly anywhere on anti-gravity rotors, fire laser-guided homing rockets and launch charged Vortex shots, joining existing suits including Hunter, Goliath and Blink.

According to LevelTen, solar power purchase agreement prices rose 5% in the third quarter, mainly due to new tariffs. Wind PPAs held relatively steady in Q3, but could begin to rise anew with solar as the latest round of tariffs takes effect later this year.

At Nvidia's GTC in Berlin, Jensen Huang unveiled the DSX Pod, a new plug-in data center, positioning it as key to unlocking Europe's AI infrastructure lag. Autonomous humanoid robotics was also part of the presentation.

EssilorLuxottica reported that revenue from its wearables grew by 20% in the third quarter of 2026. This category includes its AI glasses, developed with Meta, and its Nuance Audio hearing glasses.

Anthropic says companies that resell Claude or build apps on it can now tell Anthropic which end customer each API request belongs to. If one customer breaks the rules, a safety ban can target that customer instead of the whole account, a risk that previously existed.

Mercedes-Benz is introducing its MB.Drive Assist Pro system in Germany, making it the first automaker to offer advanced urban partially automated driving at SAE Level 2 in Germany, in addition to China and the USA. Customers with compatible models can test the feature free of charge for one month.

Agricultural equipment maker AGCO plans to deploy Agility's Digit humanoid robot at its Kansas production facility. According to The Robot Report, the pilot is expected to begin in 2027.