Facebook has two new VR headsets coming May 21: one is the Oculus Rift S, a new version of the PC-connected Oculus Rift that adds self-contained tracking, a higher-res display and a new design. But there’s also the Oculus Quest, a totally new standalone, self-contained mobile VR system that’s going to arrive at the very same …
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Recently, Facebook admitted that it “unintentionally” imported the email contact lists from 1.5 million people without their consent, starting from May 2016. Even if you don’t have a Facebook account, you might have been affected if one of your friends signed up for a new account. And if a friend of family member got a new account, either for the first …
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Facebook knows that sometimes the best relationships start off as friendships. It’s built a new tool to help ignite those type of romances. The social network said Tuesday it’s introducing a new feature for Facebook Dating that lets users (in certain countries, for now) select up to nine Facebook friends they’re interested in romantically. Your friends will only learn that …
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At its F8 developer conference this morning, Facebook said starting today you can preorder its Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S. The two VR headsets and controllers will ship May 21, the company said. The all-in-one Quest will start at $399 and is a solid step up from the company’s entry-level Oculus Go VR headset — which starts at $199. …
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Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. The Facebook app on your smartphone will start to look different. Now playing: Watch this: Zuckerberg gives a first look at redesigned Facebook… 3:23 On Tuesday, Facebook said it’s redesigning its app to make it easier for users to find and join groups on the world’s largest social network. A Facebook group is a place …
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Deceased Facebook users will outnumber living users before the end of the century, according to a new study. The Oxford study, called “Are the dead taking over Facebook? A Big Data approach to the future of death online,” calculated the user growth of the social media platform. The researchers then determined that at Facebook’s current growth rate, 4.9 billion users will …
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Major League Baseball and YouTube are teaming up. In a new partnership announced Tuesday, the two entities revealed that 13 live MLB regular season games will be streamed for free on YouTube during the second half of 2019 season. The games will be broadcast globally with YouTube being the exclusive distribution method for fans in the United States, Canada and …
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Last week, I befriended a fuzzy pink alien that my robot sidekick and I nicknamed Pork Bun. We played fetch around a bonfire and munched on virtual marshmallows. Pork Bun was so charming that, when I had to choose between protecting Pork Bun or saving the human race from extinction, I tacitly left planet Earth to fend for itself to …
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Oculus ignited people’s interest in virtual reality when it announced a Kickstarter for the Rift headset in 2012, promising high quality VR for $300. Fast-forward seven years, after a more than $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and the 2016 release of the Rift, and Oculus is preparing to launch its next-generation VR headsets. They’re called the Oculus Quest and the …
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The hottest new thing e-retailers are now selling isn’t some foldable phone or fancy service — it’s ads. It may seem a little counterintuitive, but most retailers have largely avoided putting ads on their sites and mobile apps for fear of annoying their customers or distracting them away from actually buying stuff. That’s now starting to change thanks to — …
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