In the market for a new monitor? You’ve come to the right Black Friday deal: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Staples has the AOC 24B1H 24-inch desktop monitor for $64.99. That’s after applying promo code 57031 at checkout. Regular price: $179.99. See it at Staples 2020 Holiday Gift Picks Holiday gift guide …
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Facebook has brought Beat Games into the Oculus fold, announcing the acquisition Tuesday afternoon. The virtual reality games studio will be an independently operated studio under Oculus in Prague. According to Facebook, Beat Saber content and updates will continue, but with additional support from the social media giant. Beat Saber is the top-selling VR game on Valve’s Steam Store, with players …
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Facebook will reward users for taking surveys, completing tasks and participating in research with its new market research app, Facebook Viewpoints. The social media giant said it plans to use the insights from users 18 and older to improve Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Portal, Oculus and the general community, according to a company blog post. After setting up a Facebook Viewpoints account, …
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There are few places you’re as likely to be overcome by the tyranny of choice as on dating apps. Choice is not an issue on Singularity, a new dating app for women. It features one guy and one guy alone. Enlarge Image Aaron Smith is trying to make it easier for you. Screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET That guy is Aaron …
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So far this year, we’ve been introduced to popular photo filters like Snapchat’s gender-swapping filter and the FaceApp challenge that makes you look super young or gives you wrinkles you’re not ready to see. Now Snapchat has come out with Time Machine, a new filter that lets you swipe left and right to watch yourself age from a child to …
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Facebook’s online dating service will let you add ephemeral photos and videos from the social network and Instagram, a feature that could help set the company’s service apart from Tinder, Hinge and other competitors. The introduction of short-lived content into its dating service illustrates how Facebook continues to bet on online dating, an already crowded market, even as it faces …
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Two US senators aren’t satisfied with Facebook’s explanations so far on how it uses location data in its app. The legislators say the company is undermining users’ privacy choices. Sen. Christopher Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, and Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday saying that if users want to …
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Facebook makes products, in case you didn’t know: Oculus VR headsets, and the Portal line of video-chat tablets and cameras. FWIW, they’ll be on sale through the holidays, but maybe not at the deals you were looking for. The best VR headset of the year, and a CNET Editors’ Choice, is the Oculus Quest. Bad news: It won’t be on …
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One VR headset that can plug into everything would cut down on the pile of goggles in my office. Facebook’s standalone Oculus Quest, which is already my favorite VR headset ever made, gets a step closer to that today by connecting with PCs and doubling as an Oculus Rift. The technology, called Oculus Link, is available starting today as a beta …
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Facebook has been working for years on tools to prevent and remove revenge porn on its apps, but that apparently hasn’t stopped bad actors trying to share these images. Facebook, which also owns popular apps Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, has to assess about 500,000 reports of revenge porn each month, according to a report Monday from NBC News. Facebook, the world’s …
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