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The past decade has been one long party for tech. Where we go from here isn’t so clear.
There’s currently a limit to how many people in the world can use digital services like Facebook and Netflix.
OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future.
Tech companies seem eager to support Ukraine, but how best to do that isn’t as clear.
Shoving these videos at us is a little bit sad, a little bit brilliant — and very much worth watching.
It’s time for tech employees to outgrow their cutesy names. Please.
Five superpower companies — yes, even Facebook after recent news — are completely enmeshed in our world.
Experimentation is great, yada yada. But it costs us when influential companies change their mind.
The panel investigating the attack on the Capitol is demanding information from Alphabet, Meta, Reddit and Twitter.
Online chatter about holding rallies has grown, but sizable real-world gatherings on Thursday are unlikely to materialize.
Andrew Bosworth, who will become Meta’s chief technology officer next year, laid out a vision for the social network to adopt and work with various blockchain or crypto technologies that have collectively become known as web3.
Tech executives and engineers are quitting Google, Meta, Amazon and other large companies for what they say is a once-in-generation opportunity with crypto.
Five days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, an Australian artist found herself blocked, with seemingly no recourse, from an account documenting nearly a decade of her life and work.
New British guidelines are influencing what U.S. internet companies do to protect American children.
The Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday that the deal would let Facebook — now known as Meta — “increase its already significant market power.”
The UK is reportedly set to block Facebook parent Meta Platforms’ $315 million purchase of Giphy, the popular animated GIF maker. The clampdown, which comes after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority began investigating the acquisition in June 2020, could mark the first time ever that the British government has moved aggressively to regulate Big…
A Canadian tech guru has highlighted a handy experiment that you can perform to check if Facebook is spying on you.
A Canadian tech guru has highlighted a handy experiment that you can perform to check if Facebook is spying on you.
Cosmetics retailer Lush has removed itself from several social media sites, saying “now is the right time” to leave.
Facebook critics have a Frances Haugen problem: Many love that the whistleblower leaked a trove of documents exposing many of the tech giant’s worst problems — but hate her ideas on how to solve them. Haugen has repeatedly insisted that breaking up Meta Platforms – the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and which…
New social networking app Octi mixes video and augmented reality to offer what it considers a less abrasive teen-targeted option to Instagram, TikTok.
The 14-inch smart screen offers one of the best video calling experiences, but Facebook’s controversial business practices make it hard to recommend.
Facebook Dating could help reveal a “secret crush” on your friends list.
The emblem for Facebook’s new parent company is built for the metaverse, even if it disappoints in the real world.
Meta said the move, which takes effect on January 19, 2022 came after “feedback from civil rights experts, policymakers and other stakeholders.”
The metaverse has been a hot topic recently with Facebook and Microsoft planting flags in virtual space. But what is the metaverse and is it here?
Frances Haugen said her former employer rushed to trumpet the metaverse after she revealed deep-seated problems at the company.
Facebook’s metaverse poses “terrifying dangers” and needs to be policed, according to an expert.
Facebook’s facial recognition system will be shut down and faceprints will be deleted for over a billion people, the social media giant has announced.
Facebook announced on Tuesday it is shutting down its facial recognition system, which automatically identifies users in photos and videos, citing growing societal concerns about the use of such technology. “Regulators are still in the process of providing a clear set of rules governing its use,” said Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence at…
Animage leaked online appears to show a smartwatch that Facebook Inc., now known as Meta Platforms Inc., is developing – potentially to rival the Apple Watch.
Facebook’s parent company has been renamed Meta, prompting ridicule alongside allegations that the company is attempting to deflect recent criticism.
Alongside the announcement on Thursday that Facebook would be renaming its parent company Meta, we were also offered a sneak peek at some new hardware.
Meta, the rebranded Facebook, made its debut at the company’s headquarters with a new sign today.
After reading the latest lurid reports about Facebook, hearing from one of its executives always comes as quite a shock.
Facebook revealed its new corporate name on Thursday, rebranding the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp as “Meta” as it grapples with a torrent of scandals. The tech giant’s old name just “doesn’t encompass everything that we do,” founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a lengthy online event. The new name is part of Zuckerberg’s…
The tech giants talk a lot about the “metaverse” and cloud computing. What really powers them is selling us socks.
A Facebook employee accused colleagues of being “drunk on power” last summer as they debated the company’s response to Black Lives Matter-related violence in Kenosha, Wis., according to an internal discussion obtained by The Post.
The TikToker explains how to clear all the off-platform app information that Facebook has been tracking.
Fear-mongering posts discouraging Americans from voting in US elections and participating in the US Census have run rampant on Facebook, according to an internal company study obtained by The Post.
