ByteDance, the China-based company that owns TikTok as well as one of the biggest overseas VR makers, Pico, is taking a long look at its VR headset business, finding that all those metaverse champions were way too “optimistic” in their estimation that virtual reality would take over the world.
Nothing gives best friend energy quite like silicon and some 1's and 0's. Fresh off the heels of Meta’s dystopian AI influencers modeled after real celebrities, the social networking platform Instagram is reportedly working on its own customizable artificial intelligence friends.
Being waterboarded with advertisements sort of feels like second nature on the likes of Facebook and Instagram, but for some in the EU willing to pay, that will change.
Meta’s Oversight Board wants the company to revise its policies to prevent it from incentivizing creators who post about dangerous extreme diets. As of now, creators posting through Meta’s Partner Monetization Program can earn ad revenues off of content that describes people trying to survive on only juice or no food…
Meta is once again showing the limits of its own Supreme Court’s policy recommendations. This time, the disagreement centers around the ways users can post about certain drugs like ketamine on Facebook and Instagram. These drugs, which can straddle the line between recreational and therapeutic use, can run right up…
A bipartisan coalition of 33 state attorneys general sued Meta for allegedly designing and deploying harmful features on Instagram and Facebook that addicted a gene
After shoving a Threads carousel into Facebook and Instagram, Meta gets that users might not like it.
All that metaverse tech — whatever that term means at this point — will get a big connectivity boost thanks to federal regulators.
