Metaverse developer Sensorium has partnered with the Humanity 2.0 Foundation to develop a virtual reality (VR) and nonfungible token (NFT) gallery hosting the Vatican’s art, content and academic goals, a Sensorium press release said Monday (May 2). Humanity 2.0 is a nonprofit organization confronting the...
Microsoft and IBM have teamed up with the Vatican to call for ethical and responsible use and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition technology, according to a report by Reuters. Together, the trio said such technology should respect people’s privacy, function without bias, operate...
On the heels of a Vatican banking scandal and subsequent police raid, Pope Francis appointed senior Bank of Italy official Carmelo Barbagallo, 63, to head the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority (AIF), Reuters reported on Wednesday (Nov. 27). In additional fallout from the incident, an international...
A major security flaw has been discovered in the Vatican’s eRosary smart device. Last week, the Vatican announced the launch of its Click to Pray eRosary, a wearable that is dormant until it detects its user making the sign of the cross. It can be...
August 14, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds seemingly unlimited potential to impact nearly all areas of human activity across personal, professional and social life, as well as politics and the global economy. AI has even captured the attention of organizations as disparate as the Pentagon and the Catholic Church’s pope. Because of the rate and speed at which the […]
May 02, 2022
Metaverse developer Sensorium has partnered with the Humanity 2.0 Foundation to develop a virtual reality (VR) and nonfungible token (NFT) gallery hosting the Vatican’s art, content and academic goals, a Sensorium press release said Monday (May 2). Humanity 2.0 is a nonprofit organization confronting the obstacles to the world’s cultural and socioeconomic development. The project […]
February 28, 2020
Microsoft and IBM have teamed up with the Vatican to call for ethical and responsible use and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition technology, according to a report by...
November 27, 2019
On the heels of a Vatican banking scandal and subsequent police raid, Pope Francis appointed senior Bank of Italy official Carmelo Barbagallo, 63, to head the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority...
October 22, 2019
A major security flaw has been discovered in the Vatican’s eRosary smart device. Last week, the Vatican announced the launch of its Click to Pray eRosary, a wearable that is...
