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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jul 24, 2025
Published research from Meta's Reality Labs has revealed a unique combination of augmented reality (AR) glasses and a wrist-based control band. This technology, detailed in the Nature publication, allows users to interact with content via...
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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Jul 16, 2025
Meta has fixed a flaw in its AI that exposed users' personal information. Cybersecurity expert Sandeep Hodkasia discovered this vulnerability on December 26, 2024, and disclosed it to Meta. The company found a fix on January 24, 2025, and...
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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Jul 02, 2025
Most social media apps allow users to message each other directly, but Threads has lacked this feature until now. In a recent blog post, Meta revealed that Threads users can now send and receive direct messages (DMs) within the Threads...
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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Jun 30, 2025
We all love seeing our pictures in different creative forms and on social media. However, what if these creative ideas are generated with an AI feature that accesses your gallery and even uses pictures you've decided not to share with...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, Jun 25, 2025
Microsoft has been on a *ahem* quest recently to define what the Xbox is, and that seems to involve everything but its own hardware. Case in point, a newly released Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition is now out in the wild, priced at $399 and...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 23, 2025
If you ask Microsoft, the Redmond outfit will tell you that practically everything is an Xbox. Not literally, mind you, but the company's 'This is an Xbox' campaign attempts to hammer home the idea that a wide assortment of hardware can be...
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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Jun 04, 2025
Meta has responded to allegations that it violated Android users' rights to privacy by secretly using its apps to track browsing histories.
In case you're unfamiliar with this allegations, a group of security researchers reported that...
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Victor Awogbemila - Tue, Jun 03, 2025
Very soon, you probably will not need to worry that random people on WhatsApp are able to access your phone number. WhatsApp is reportedly working on a privacy feature that will allow WhatsApp users to mask their private phone numbers with...
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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Apr 28, 2025
A recent report has revealed that Meta's AI chatbot tool (the same one that once called Zuckerberg creepy) poses danger to children as it's allegedly having sexual conversations with minors.
Meta ranks high among the companies that have...
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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Apr 23, 2025
Apple and Meta have been hit with a combined fine of $800 million by the European Union (EU) antitrust regulators, over violations of the Digital Market Act (DMA). The DMA, which went into effect in 2023, is designed to promote fairness in...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Apr 23, 2025
TikTok is the envy of every social media company. Its success has led to heavyweights in the space to borrow heavily from TikTok’s design and features in hopes of stealing away users. Meta’s latest attempt is a video editing app aimed at...
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Victor Awogbemila - Thu, Apr 17, 2025
We expected many twists and turns in the ongoing legal tussle between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but today's news is pretty wild. Google, Apple, and Snap have all ripped Meta for its "egregious" handling of redacted...
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Victor Awogbemila - Tue, Apr 15, 2025
The trial has commenced in the ongoing antitrust suit between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with Mark Zuckerberg Meta's CEO giving testimony that could decide the fate of two of its social media platforms, namely WhatsApp and...
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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Apr 14, 2025
Meta is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the US Federal Trade Commission(FTC) that could force it to sell WhatsApp and Instagram over accusations of monopoly. The case commenced during President Trump's first term in 2020 when antitrust...
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Victor Awogbemila - Fri, Mar 28, 2025
Instagram has continually added more features to better compete with TikTok. In January, we reported that Instagram promised to launch the “Edit app” similar to CapCut, which is largely used by TikTok users. And yesterday, Instagram announced that it has added another update that allows users...
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Victor Awogbemila - Fri, Feb 21, 2025
The legal battle between authors and Meta over copyright infringement continues. Following the plaintiffs' (Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, et al., ) amended claim last month, Meta filed a reply on Tuesday, denying...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Well, not your thoughts, probably, but Meta has unveiled a new AI-powered brain scanner that can apparently translate thoughts into text. That's according to the company itself, which posted two research papers and a blog about it. The...
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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Meta is involved in a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, a claim the company disputes. Newly unsealed court documents containing private conversations between Meta employees appear to support the plaintiffs' allegations...
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Victor Awogbemila - Thu, Feb 06, 2025
Last December, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT was available on WhatsApp, which allowed users to chat with the AI language model without needing a browser or a mobile app. However, this upgrade had limitations—WhatsApp ChatGPT users couldn't...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Dec 31, 2024
Meta Quest headsets are by far the most popular choice in the VR space, and many were likely given out as gifts during the holidays season. Unfortunately, a lot of those new users might feel as if they got a lump of coal instead, as a...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Nov 22, 2024
WhatsApp just received a long overdue messaging transcript feature. Incidentally, Apple introduced a similar feature along with iOS 17 during last year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, so it's nice to see WhatsApp close the gap.
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Nov 21, 2024
Have you noticed how much your Instagram recommendations have sucked lately, swaying so far from your interests and preferences that sometimes you feel like tossing your phone across the room? Well, Meta has heard your cries as it will be...
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