Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses feel almost normal at times. And, of course, utterly abnormal. And also very familiar. I’ve used products like this, off and on, for years. Welcome to Facebook’s first smart glasses. After promising smart glasses for years, Facebook’s first glasses are disappointingly familiar. These aren’t AR glasses at all. They don’t have …
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When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social network was working on its first smart glasses, he tried to dial down the hype. The glasses, he suggested during the Facebook Connect conference in September 2020, would be just a step toward a more ambitious project. “They’re not yet augmented reality glasses,” Zuckerberg said, referring to technology that places digital …
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Twitter’s Communities feature lets users tweet to a group of people about a topic. Twitter Twitter is testing a new tool, Communities, which lets users publicly tweet in a group about specific topics. The experiment builds on Twitter’s efforts to make it easier for its users to find tweets about topics they’re interested in. Twitter already lets users follow specific …
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Texas is close to creating a law that would allow the Lone Star state’s residents to sue Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or other social media companies if they’ve been banned from the platforms for their political views. The bill has passed the state’s legislature. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign it, according to USA Today. It’s similar to a Florida law that …
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WhatsApp didn’t fully explain to Europeans how it uses their data as called for by EU privacy law, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said on Thursday. The regulator hit the messaging app with a fine of 225 million euros, about $267 million. Partly at issue is how WhatsApp share information with parent company Facebook, according to the commission. The decision brings an end …
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Facebook is getting into fantasy gaming on iOS and Android, it revealed Wednesday. The company launched Facebook Fantasy Games on the Facebook app in the US and Canada, letting you make predictions about sports and TV shows. The first game to launch is Pick & Play Sports, in which you score points for correctly predicting the winner of a big …
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Apple and Google are under increasing pressure from global regulators, who say the tech giants have abused their power in mobile devices in order to exert control over app developers and pad their profits in the process. On Tuesday, South Korea’s National Assembly passed a bill that will force Apple and Google to loosen restrictions they impose via the Apple …
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Facebook said Tuesday it’s expanding an experiment the company started earlier this year to reduce the amount of political content in people’s New Feeds. In February, the social network said it would test reducing political content for users in the US, Canada, Brazil and Indonesia. After receiving a positive response, Facebook is now testing the reductions in other countries, including Costa …
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In a world where it isn’t always clear who or what to trust when it comes to getting news on the internet, Mike McCue says he has an answer. A new update to his social news reading app Flipboard adds a feature that lets you tell the company details about the topics you find interesting. You may be interested in …
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Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf Coast on Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane bringing driving rains and flooding, and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana and Mississippi. So far, four people have been found dead in the two states. As of Monday, at least 670 people had been rescued. A new storm, Kate, reached land …
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