What if instead of a bulky headset or cumbersome glasses to give you the futuristic augmented reality overlay of computer information on the real world, you could just wear contact lenses? That’s what Silicon Valley startup Mojo Vision is aiming to let you do, people familiar with the matter say. The company, which just announced …
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When it comes to taking down content, Facebook acknowledges it hasn’t always made the right decisions. The tech firm apologized for removing the iconic “Napalm Girl” photo in 2016 and has grappled with other public blunders. But as social networks face more pressure from lawmakers and users to pull down hate speech, terrorist content, nudity and other offensive items, digital …
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Twitter is a confounding place for many reasons, but perhaps its oddest quirk is that since its founding in 2006, it hasn’t had an edit button. That may change, and soon. CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly told an audience in India that the company is considering adding the edit functionality to tweets, primarily to fix typos. “We have been considering this for …
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Google is committed to diversity and supports its employees in their protests, the company’s financial chief said Monday. Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet and Google, said Monday during the Wall Street Journal D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., that she participated in this month’s walkouts with her financial team. “Diversity overall makes an organization stronger,” she said. “People …
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Did you have trouble accessing your Facebook feed? If so, you aren’t alone. Facebook was down this morning in the US, as well as other parts of the world. The outage, caused by a test the social network was conducting, lasted about 40 minutes. “Earlier today, a routine test caused users to have trouble accessing or posting to all Facebook …
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Let’s talk storage. Do you work with video files? Images? Audio? That stuff seems to grow exponentially, probably because it’s so damn easy to create. (I’m looking at you, phones capable of capturing 4K video.) How about a game console — got one of those? Now you need as much storage as humanly possibly to store your growing game collection, …
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The criticisms started piling up as soon as Flickr said it would end its free terabyte of photo storage and delete all but a member’s 1,000 most recent photos unless the member upgraded to a $50 annual pro subscription. “Internet say goodbye” to “11,000 photos that were hosted on #flickr,” said one tweet. “I’m sad to lose all the comments …
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Facebook launched on Friday a new short-form video app called Lasso that lets users make and share videos with filters and special effects. The app includes video-editing tools, and helps users add music and text. Users can also follow creators, browse videos and find popular hashtags. Lasso’s features are similar to those of TikTok, another short-video platform. Bytedance Technology, a …
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Yesterday, we got a foldable phone. But Samsung’s Developer Conference is only half over. In addition to the very intriguing foldable Infinity Flex Display, the Korean electronics giant gave a big shot in the arm to Bixby, its voice assistant competitor to the likes of Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. It opened Bixby up to third-party developers (the core audience at its …
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Apple went on an updating spree on Wednesday for several of its apps, including GarageBand, iMovie, Clips and iWork, which includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote. The iMovie and iWork apps have been updated on both iOS and MacOS, while Apple updated GarageBand and Clips only for iOS. Here are some of the changes you can expect once you’re up to …
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