There’s a holiday for practically everything — even pruning your collection of friends on social media. Sunday is National Unfriend Day, which was started in 2010 by late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel. Shrinking your social circle has a number of benefits, according to Natalie Pennington, a communications professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, …
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It may not be obvious, but you’re almost certainly using AI every day. Artificial intelligence-boosting hardware in your phone enables voice recognition and spots your friends in photos. In the cloud, it delivers search results and weeds out spam email. Next up for dedicated AI hardware will be your laptop, Intel expects. Computer and software makers haven’t started clamoring for hardware …
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After Instagram said last week that it would extend hiding likes to the US, its users globally were hit with the change Thursday. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said it’s all about changing how people, especially young users, feel about the social media platform. “Today a small portion of people on Instagram worldwide will no longer be able to see the number …
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John Carmack, the video game legend behind Facebook‘s VR push, is stepping down as chief technology officer at Oculus. He announced the move Wednesday afternoon, saying he’d transition to the role of “consulting CTO” at Oculus. “I will still have a voice in the development work, but it will only be consuming a modest slice of my time,” Carmack wrote …
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Facebook said Wednesday it had removed million of posts for violating rules against hate speech, sexual activity and other offensive content between April and September, a move that comes as the social network struggles to determine how free-wheeling it will allow the site to become. For the first time, Facebook also released data about content taken down from Instagram, the …
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Facebook already lets you send money to your friends and family through Messenger but the company is planning to make it easier to keep track of payments across all of its apps, including photo app Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp. The company on Tuesday unveiled a new service called Facebook Pay, which will roll out on Facebook and Messenger first — …
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Let’s get crafting! Minecraft Earth, Microsoft’s new augmented-reality app for iOS and Android phones, is now available in the US. The mobile game, which has been slowly rolling out to countries this fall, lets you explore, gather items, find monsters and go on adventures in an AR world on your phone. Over 10 years, we’ve played the blocky game on …
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When you’re scrolling through Facebook’s app, the social network could be using your camera, concerned users have found. Multiple people have found and reported that their iPhone cameras were turned on in the background while they were looking at their feed. The issue came to light through several posts on Twitter. Users noted that their cameras were activated behind Facebook’s …
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Apps with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality will reach 10 billion installations by 2024, according to Juniper Research. This is up from around 3 billion installations of mixed-reality apps for 2019, the study published Monday said. Mixed reality overlays images and videos onto the real world by using the camera on a phone, tablet, glasses or headset. More …
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Facebook is removing posts that name the whistleblower involved in the impeachment of US President Donald Trump, Reuters reported Friday, a move that follows publication of a story by Breitbart News that claims to identify the person. Similarly, Google-owned YouTube is removing videos that mention the name of the potential whistleblower, as CNN reported earlier. The White House whistleblower wrote a nine-page …
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