Facebook’s threat to sue Guardian journalists to keep a privacy exposé about Cambridge Analytica buried was “not our wisest move,” the social network’s point person to the news industry says. “If it were me I would have probably not threatened to sue The Guardian,” Campbell Brown, head of news partnerships at Facebook, said Thursday at the …
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HTC Vive Focus, a mobile standalone VR headset first launched last year in China, is now going worldwide by year’s end, according to an announcement by HTC during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The headset has built-in 6 DoF (six degrees of freedom) tracking that allows movement in a room without added external sensors. It runs software compatible …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Colbert presented Zuckerberg’s reaction to the crisis. The Late Show; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I admit I’ve spent many years now sniggering at the exploits of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Ever since he declared that he knew people didn’t want privacy and insisted that …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Would quitting be the right thing to do? NurPhoto He twitched and he strained. He tried to stick to the script given him by his PR and legal handlers, even making his first remarks almost identical to the statement he’d published earlier on Facebook. He …
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The EU unveiled a plan on Wednesday designed to get big US tech companies, including Google, Amazon and Facebook, to pay more tax in Europe. Under current rules, digital companies only pay tax in countries where they have a physical presence, even if they’re providing services in those countries and making money there. The European Commission wants to change this …
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You have a gambling addiction. A pretty serious one, actually. You rise each day and take a trip to Mark Zuckerberg’s bustling casino. You arrive, hoping you might see familiar faces, but all the other gamblers are people you don’t give a crap about. You shrug and head to a slot machine. You crank the lever for the thousandth time, …
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The data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users could’ve been harvested by private companies under the social network’s previous rules, an ex-employee said Tuesday. Sandy Parakilas, who was Facebook’s platform operations manager between 2011 and 2012, told the Guardian that he warned senior executives at the social network there was risk of a major data breach, but was ignored. Parakilas, …
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Millions of US voters had their Facebook data exploited by consultants working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to news reports this weekend. But the fallout from the revelations extends far and wide beyond US borders. The EU will investigate whether the privacy rights of European citizens have been violated by social media companies that may have shared their data …
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This year a lot more of us will be spending time wearing augmented and virtual reality headsets. Regardless of a growth slump in 2017, the AR/VR headset market is predicted to increase by 48.5 percent year-over-year to volumes of 12.4 million units, according to market research by IDC. The firm also says headsets will grow to 68.9 million units in …
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Can’t wait till you can buy a relatively inexpensive VR headset that doesn’t need a PC or phone? You may need to wait a tad longer than we originally thought. Variety reports that the $199 Oculus Go headset will launch at Facebook’s F8 developer conference on May 1. While that’s not technically a delay, it definitely stretches the company’s original …
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