Google is integrating its Google Lens augmented reality helper into a camera app, which will unlock features like letting you grab text that you can copy and paste, and find other objects and clothing that match a style in front of you.  Now playing: Watch this: Here are all the cool things Google Lens can do …

Pokemon Go is reviving its festival in Chicago, after the confab was a mess last year, and spreading the concept to Europe and Asia this summer.  Pokemon Go Fest: A Walk in the Park will take place July 14 and 15 in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, with single-day tickets on sale Friday for $20 on the event’s website, according to an update on …

YouTube has 1.8 billion people registered viewers every month, not counting any people who watch the massive video service without logging in.  “It’s incredibly important to me and to everyone at YouTube that we grow responsibly,” Wojcicki said Thursday, speaking at a New York presentation for advertisers known as a Newfront. “There is not a playbook for how open platforms operate at our …

Facebook’s new mobile standalone VR headset, Oculus Go, is here. But the future involves more advanced hardware with displays that make VR look a lot better. On Wednesday, Facebook teased us with one such future device. A virtual-reality prototype headset, referred to internally at Facebook as Half Dome, could advance VR technology past some of its key frustrations, like tunnel-vision …

Facebook is introducing a new privacy tool called “clear history,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday with a personal Facebook post.  The tool will allow you to see information about the apps and websites you’ve interacted with, and you’ll be able to clear this information from your account.  Now playing: Watch this: Zuckerberg unveils ‘clear history’ software tool 1:30 The news came …

Scattered around Earth, you and other audience members slip on VR headsets and convene in a common virtual world. As you explore, you’re approached by a character different from avatars you’ve met in VR before. It reacts to you like somebody in the same room would, but this isn’t a creature of our world. It’s sewn together by the same …

Twitter is widening its video partnerships with media companies — both old and new school — by bringing in new shows like SportsCenter Live from ESPN and live video and clips from NBC Universal.  As its video views have nearly doubled in the past year, Twitter is almost doubling the number of shows it broadcasts over its social network to 30 …

Snap unveiled the second iteration of its Spectacles wearable camera, with faster uploads, water resistance, and improved audio quality for videos, the company said in a blog post Thursday.  Snap’s first version of Spectacles launched to a lot of hype in 2016 before quickly fizzling out. Releasing its Spectacles was meant to be a transformative event for Snapchat, which dropped the …

Facebook is close to a deal that would bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Brussels to answer questions from members of the European Parliament, according to a report by Politico.  Earlier this month, Zuckerberg endured 10 hours of grilling over two days in the chambers of Congress. That followed the onset several weeks earlier of a spiraling scandal for Facebook triggered …

Spotify’s revamped mobile app unshackles free users from shuffle mode — and opens up a cache of new data in the process.  The world’s largest music-streaming service said Tuesday that after years of limiting mobile users of its free tier to shuffled songs, it’s opening up about 40 hours of on-demand music from 15 playlists like your personalized Discover Weekly …