In a stay-at-home world, a self-contained display-and-webcam combo device made specifically for sending and receiving video calls—videophones, if you will—feels like both an extravagance and a necessity. On the one hand, you probably already have a computer with a webcam ...
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg officially announced that his company was changing its name from Facebook to Meta, with a prominent new focus on creating the metaverse. A defining feature of this metaverse will be creating a feeling of presence in ...
Social media provides a lot of value to the world, but a new study suggests that we should start taking it in smaller doses – ideally no more than 30 minutes per day. The experimental study was conducted by Melissa G. Hunt ...
he way we access media and information has been changing at breakneck speed for years now. But the upheaval over the past 12 months or so feels like the most dramatic of all. Donald Trump has ushered a whole new ...
It’s fair to say that Facebook is having a tough time of it at the moment after the Cambridge-Analytica data scandal. Not to mention the allegations that the social network played a crucial role in spreading misinformation during the 2016 presidential ...
Mark Zuckerberg almost sounded embarrassed about it. On Wednesday night, after weeks of Facebook taking a thrashing from the press, politicians and the stock market, it turned out the Cambridge Analytica scandal had not been that bad after all. “Despite facing ...
acebook is freaking people out, yo. The Cambridge Analytica thing – which is reasonably confusing, amongst other things – has everyone rattled, and people are shutting their accounts down in droves. Where will they see confusing memes about wine o’clock now? Some ...
Privacy scandal widens. The personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from a previous estimate of more than 50 million. Most of the 87 million people whose ...
Facebook has changed the pricing for its Workplace enterprise social network, a move that will result in price increases for some new customers. Workplace was officially launched at the end of 2016, following a lengthy, 18-month beta trial with large enterprises ...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to get a billion people to live and play in VR. But the company won’t get there with premium VR headsets like the Oculus Rift, which require expensive gaming PCs. Mobile VR headsets like the Gear VR are ...