Facebook is preparing to launch Horizon, a huge, welcoming virtual world.

Horizon is a sandbox game with a vast, single virtual reality world compatible with the Oculus Quest VR headset. In it, users will be able to design their own worlds, communicate with each other, watch movies, play multiplayer games and more.

Each player will be able to create their virtual prototype and travel the world Horizon through special portals – telepods. You will be able to create new locations and objects using visual editors.

Canon introduced the entry-level EOS M200 mirrorless camera.

The novelty is the successor to the popular model EOS M100. The camera has a 24.1MP APS-C sensor and an updated Digic 8. The EOS M200 has Dual Pixel eye recognition autofocus. The manufacturer also increased the number of AF points from 49 to 123.

The Canon EOS M200 can record 4K video at 24 frames per second, but only with a 1.6 dash factor. The model is available in two colors: black and white. Includes EF-M 15-45mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens. The camera goes on sale in October for $ 549.

The new Google Play Pass service is now official.

It is a direct competitor of Apple Arcade and provides access to hundreds of premium paid apps for $ 1.99 per month for the first year. From the second year, the price rises to the standard $ 4.99. The service will be launched this week and is currently in the US only. Subsequently, launch information for other countries will become known.

A Google Play Pass subscription gives you access to completely unlocked games and applications – no ads, no internal, no down payment. The service has a directory that includes games such as Monument Valley, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, LIMBO, Old Man’s Journey and Lumino City. There are also paid programs such as AccuWeather. Google says there will be new additions on a monthly basis.

The Autumn Equinox Day in 2019 is on Monday, September 23.

Equinox is not just a day when the sun is just above the horizon so much that day and night are even. On September 23, the sun will give the southern and northern hemispheres the same amount of light.

The autumn equinox is the moment when the Earth orbits exactly three-fourths of the way around the sun. Starting from this day the night will be longer than the day, gradually adding little by little until the Earth reaches the final point of its journey.

Google has created a doodle for the Autumn Equinox on which a smiling oak leaf is covered by a smiling Earth.

Facebook has suspended thousands of applications as part of a data leak investigation that began after a data scandal of more than 87 million users for Cambridge Analytica.

The social network said they suspended applications temporarily, which does not mean that these applications were able to access personal data. Some app developers have filed lawsuits. Among them are Ukrainians. Facebook claims that the developers were allegedly stealing personal information from users through advertising and online tests.

The South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave, Hong Kong-based LionMobi and Singapore-based JediMob have also been blocked. Facebook has found that they are involved in infecting users’ phones with malware.

The world-renowned Google search engine has released a series of branded easter eggs for the 25th anniversary of the Friends series.

Each of the main characters of the series have developed a separate Easter. Moreover, you can register in the search even in Ukrainian. For example, if you write “Phoebe Friends”, a guitar appears on the screen, after which a “smelly cat” jumps out – one of the characters of Phoebe’s songs.

If you write Rachel Friends, a wig dummy appears and you can get to Rachel’s image search results page by clicking on it. Killing in the search for “Monica Friends” you can see the cleaning bucket. By clicking on the bucket, you can start the wash process.

Apple has released a new version of the operating system for iPhones – iOS 13.

It can be installed on all iPhones, starting with the 6S. The new system has a dark theme that changes the look of all applications, and a built-in App Store tab with a subscription to Apple Arcade games, which presents more than 100 video games selected by Apple.

Apple has also updated the system to remove and move applications. Now, to uninstall an app on 3D Touch enabled devices, users need to press the application icon more, then select the “Reorder Applications” menu and then click on the “cross” to the left of the icon. You can also uninstall apps in the App Store. To do this, you need to swipe right across from the app.

Japanese company Uniqlo plans to sell fiber products from recycled plastic bottles.

Operator Uniqlo Fast Retailing and textile and chemical company Toray Industries have announced their intention to jointly develop high-speed polyester fiber fabrics obtained from plastic bottles.

Uniqlo officials said they have been able to improve the technology to remove impurities from this plastic and obtain special thin fibers. According to them, these fibers can be used in a number of functional goods, including clothing.

Facebook has developed smart glasses in collaboration with employees of the Italian corporation Luxottica, which owns the Ray-Ban brand.

According to the developers, this device called Orion and it should replace a regular smartphone. The glasses will be able to receive and make calls, they will display the necessary information requested on the Internet, and the built-in glasses will allow users to live broadcast on social networks.

Now, Facebook employees are actively developing a smart assistant for voice input and Agios ring, which is equipped with a special motion sensor to control AR glasses.

Sotetsu Bus launches Japan’s first selfdriven bus.

Until October 14, it will ride in test mode, and anyone can ride it for free. So far, the bus route is short, its length is 900 meters, and the maximum speed is limited to around 20 kilometers per hour.

According to the company plan, it should make 16 trips a day between 10am and 4pm when there are not many cars on the roads. During the test period, an employee of the company will sit in the driver’s cab, he or she will take control  if there is a risk of security breach.

Messenger Viber introduced a new feature called “Create Sticker”.

With it users can add their own personalized stickers to express any emotion without words. The sticker creation feature is already available for Android in the Google Play Store and will soon be available on iOS and PC.

Since 2013, the messenger has released thousands of stickers, and more than 30 billion stickers were sent to the app last year. Users now now create and send any image. You can create your own Viber sticker in the Sticker Store tab.

In Stuttgart, Germany, was demonstration flight of a cyclo-taxi.

A four-seater “car of the future” flew near the Mercedes-Benz Museum for four minutes. The taxi was driven by a pilot who was on the ground, but in the future, they plan to switch the car from manual to autonomous. There were no passengers in the cabin.

The chairman of the board of Daimler auto group Ola Cullenius, who was present at the presentation, said that such trainers will help to solve the problem of traffic jams.

And Volocopter CEO Florian Reuter expects to get permission to use the fiber train as a taxi in two to three years.