Meta Wants Quest to Become the Android of VR
The Meta Quest 3 hasn’t enjoyed much time in the spotlight this year, and that probably won’t change with the headset’s most recent hardware and app updates. But let’s cast…
TikTok Divest-or-Ban Bill Passes in the Senate
The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18. The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through…
Meta Quest Horizon OS Will Finally Make 3rd Party VR Headsets Worth Buying
Meta’s metaverse dreams might actually blossom a bit this spring as it’s finally done trying to hole itself in its own walled garden filled with its Meta Quest 3 headsets.…
Russia Sentences Meta Spokesman to 6 Years in Prison for ‘Justification of Terrorism’
A military court in Russia sentenced a spokesperson for Meta to six years in prison on Monday, according to a new report from the English-language Moscow Times. Andy Stone was…
Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat
Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but that’s not enough for them. Court filings unsealed last week allege Meta created an internal effort to spy on…
Stanley Cups, AI Nurses, a Bad Interview for Elon and More
Screenshot: X/Neuralink Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday. The man in question, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who identifies himself as Noland Arbaugh, said…
Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means
Mark Zuckerberg made his first post in the “fediverse” on Thursday. If you have no idea what the hell that means, join the club. The fediverse is a relatively new…
Zuckerberg Swiped Elon’s Big Swiping Idea
Mark Zuckerberg began testing a horizontal swiping feature on Wednesday for his pet project, Threads, the app whose main purpose seems to be trolling Elon Musk. The feature appears to…
Threads Adds ‘Trending’ Page, Moving Ever Closer to Old Twitter
Threads users in the United States will finally be able to see what topics are trending on the app, a longheld staple feature of Twitter, according to a post from…
Facebook Gives ‘Poke’ a New Life
What does it mean to “poke” someone on Facebook? Is it flirty, friendly, or even annoying? The answer is all of the above, and somehow, none at all. The ambiguous…