After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, Including A “Black Qu...
Walmart closes its $2.3B cash acquisition of TV maker Vizio, saying the deal will let it offer new ways for advertisers to reach customers via Walmart Connect
The heat generated by the servers to sell $14 worth of goods drowns the Maldives. … Dan Sheehan / @dansheehan : You will never leave The Store [embedded post] Arthur Gies / @aegies : in 2016 when vizi...
Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo, but not launch, the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall
- Under an internal project named Orion, Meta has been working on high-tech AR glasses for years.
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Mark Z...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will debut its next VR headset in October with better eye- and facial-tracking features to bolster users' feeling of “social presence”
Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … Daniel Petrov / PhoneArena : Meta's AR/VR device to launch in October as Zuckerberg touts non-verbal revolution Scott Hayden / Road to V...
A look at some key design challenges in crypto and Web3, from onboarding to wallet security, that need to be addressed for the next generation of users
this is just a slice of the design challenges we face. Imagine being the designer or engineer that creates the new, standard way to do something in web3. The impact is huge. It's 1998 and we don't eve...
A look at some key design challenges in crypto and Web3, from onboarding to wallet security, that need to be addressed for the next generation of users
It's still early days in crypto. — That's what you'll hear everywhere when you start digging into crypto and web3 today. Tweets: @ourielohayon , @developer_dao , @alexisohanian , @bx , @stammy , @al...
A look at Open Connect, Netflix's in-house CDN that launched a decade ago and spans 17,000 servers across 158 countries
As hundreds of thousands of households worldwide tapped into Netflix's Squid Game last month, viewers may have taken something fairly extraordinary for granted.
Slack announces Clips, short video voicemail messages for channels, rolling out today for paid accounts, changes to Connect, GovSlack, and more
Slack is getting video voicemails — Slack is launching its new clips feature today, allowing coworkers to record video messages that exist in Slack channels.
Slack unveils new features to allow messaging between companies, including Connect DMs, Verified Organizations, more, coming later this year or early next year
opening up chats with folks outside your company Paayal Zaveri / Business Insider : Slack is greatly expanding the ability for users to message people at other companies, as it works to replace work e...