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And welcome to the week in tech. it was the week instagrams said sorry for wrongly disabling the account of artist metaverse for a month, it has since been restored. ibm and samsung unveiled virtual transistors on a semiconductor, why is this interesting, stacking more transistors on a ship could one day extend phone battery life. and metter has opened its vr space horizon worlds to quest app uses over 18 in the us and canada. the metaverse has gained a notable real—world interest is clothing giant 90 has bought a company that makes virtual sneakers. pronounced artefact it is an nft studio t...

A research lab is making polymer lenses in parabolic free—fall flights which simulate weightlessness. it looks fun, doesn�*t it? 0mer luria led the research on this method, which could help manufacture cheap glasses for the billions of us who need to correct our vision. the mixture is usually dropped into a mould, suspended in fluid, so the lens can take shape before for being cured by uv light. and finally, even though it�*s around 93 million miles away, the sun is no longer outside of humanity�*s reach as nasa�*s spacecraft parker solar probe has been confirmed to have touched the ...

Now i'm an adult in a spaceship. >> reporter: days later blue origin founder jeff bezos got his turn becoming one of his company's first astronauts. >> weightlessness. >> reporter: captain kirk himself, actor william shatner,experienced a few minutes of weightlessness on blue origin's next flight. >> it was unbelievable. >> reporter: but they were all topped by this fall's inspiration4 mission, the first all civilian trip to orbit, three days circling the earth. 29 astronauts worldwide flew to space this year. >> it's a real experience. it kind of opens your eyes to how much more there is out ...

Grateful that i had been a girl, because i don't know how i would have followed in daddy's footsteps. so i finally did it. it was wonderful. >> reporter: the panes passed the carmen line, the internationally recognized boundary of space, and experienced about three minutes of weightlessness before the capsule made a parachuted landing back on earth. reusability is at the core of blue origin's space strategy and this was the fifth flight of this vehicle. they celebrated with champagne showers and hugs from loved ones. they told me they are still processing the fact that they are now astronauts ...

Of a sudden, you feel your body go like this and you're floating. and then back in a belt and on earth. i'm going to sit at work tomorrow and said, i went to space yesterday. it to be floating again. you want more of it. >> reporter: laura shepherd churchly 12 years old when her father allan shepherd made his historical flight, first american in space. his journey aboard new shepherd, named after her father, was a long time coming and allowed her to experience a little bit of his adventures. >> way back when in '61, i was grateful that i had been a girl because i don't know how i would have fo...