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Engadget Here's a peek at how A Minecraft Movie will handle crafting The team behind the upcoming Minecraft movie shared a new clip during Minecraft Live that expands on the brief crafting moment we saw in the teaser. The segment also gives us our first look at the movie's interpretation of a Minecraft bee.

Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion Meta Connect 2024 was this week, showcasing new hardware and software to support two of the company's big ambitions: AI and the metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new Quest headsets, updates to Meta's Llama AI model, and real-time video capabilities of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The biggest reveal, though, was Orion, a true AR glasses prototype touted as "the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen." OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced this week that she is leaving the company after more than six years.

Meta offers a glimpse through its supposed iPhone killer: Orion For years, Silicon Valley and Wall Street have questioned Mark Zuckerberg's decision to invest tens of billions of dollars into Reality Labs. This week, Meta's wearables division unveiled a prototype of its Orion smart glasses, a form factor the company believes one day could replace the iPhone. Through micro LED projectors and silicon carbide lenses (which are quite expensive), Meta seems to have cracked a longstanding AR display challenge.

Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC While online discourse would make it seem that venture has retreated to the Bay Area, with San Francisco being the most important place to build a startup, Index Ventures is looking to bulk up its New York-based investing team. The firm is currently looking to hire another New York-based investor with plans to add three or four new people to the team within the next year, Shardul Shah, a partner at Index Ventures, told TechCrunch. "For a venture fund, that's hypergrowth," Shah said, adding that Index is trying to "capitalize on the ecosystem here, and the energy we have as a team."