The Cage Fight With Musk Never Happened, but Zuck Won 2023
This summer, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk blew the internet’s mind by claiming they would fight each other in a “cage match”-style brawl. The rival tech execs were feuding over…
Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Now Have Thoughts About Your Pants
Meta’s long-promised AI-enabled vision features for the company’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses are finally incoming, allowing the onboard AI to see, hear, and interpret its environment through the glasses’ 12 MP…
Cambridge Dictionary Names ‘Hallucination’ Word of the Year and I’ve Never Felt So Seen
Yesterday, the folks at Cambridge Dictionary named “Hallucination” the word of the year and, Jesus, they really hit the nail on the head. Like, wow. Frankly, this could be the…
Meta Officially Accepts Blood Money to Promote the Big Lie
Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can’t…
Meta Will Now be Able to Sell Its New Budget VR Headset in China
The Meta Quest 1, Quest 2, and Quest 3.Image: Gizmodo / Dan Ackerman After 14 years of no access to China, Meta has finally managed to strike a deal with…
Musk Tells Joe Rogan He’s Still Down to Kick Zuck’s Ass
Tesla CEO Elon Musk made another appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast Tuesday in an almost three-hour talk on subjects that these two are heavily interested in: cars, mixed…
Threads Users Can Now Post Polls, GIFs
Image: AdriaVidal (Shutterstock) Threads’s chess match against X, formerly called Twitter, continues with the launch of its polls and GIF features on Thursday. The additions bring to Threads two staples…
33 States Sue Meta, Say It Knowingly Addicted Kids to Social Media
Photo: Zach Gibson (Getty Images) A bipartisan coalition of 33 state attorneys general sued Meta for allegedly designing and deploying harmful features on Instagram and Facebook that addicted a generation…
Apple Disables Maps Features in Israel and Gaza
Photo: BigTunaOnline (Shutterstock) Apple Maps has flipped the switch on live traffic data in Israel and Gaza at the request of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to The Hill. The…
Meta Gets That You Hate Seeing Threads on Facebook, Instagram. End of Communication
Meta first embedded Threads carousels onto Instagram in August. Image: Adrian Tusar (Shutterstock) After shoving a Threads carousel into Facebook and Instagram, Meta gets that users might not like it. Meta…