Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps
“I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps
“I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps
“I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
Meta rolls out its Threads web app to all users, featuring an app bar at the top with the same five tabs as in the mobile app; tapping Home refreshes the Feed
here's how to install it as an app or in Edge's Sidebar Juli Clover / MacRumors : Threads Social Network Expands to the Web Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Threads takes nex...
Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram, no hashtags, can't search for anything other than user handles, and more
Programming note: I really was trying to take a vacation, but this felt like it was worth the one-day interruption.
The White House plans to require that companies seeking CHIPS Act subsidies limit stock buybacks and share unanticipated profits with the federal government
Even Child Care Tweets: Dennis Crowley / @dens : This seems very smart / reasonable. Why haven't all subsidies (or bailouts?) had similar terms? https://www.nytimes.com/... https:/...
Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more
“It's almost like everyday you wake up and you're punched in the stomach,” the billionaire CEO told Rogan. — Matthew Gault
SOTU: Biden asks Congress to pass new rules to enhance child safety on social media, including banning targeted ads to, and data collection of, children
He wants to ban targeted advertising to kids — President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass new rules to enhance child safety …
The NFT.NYC conference, now in its third year, was a coming-out party for the NFT community, attracting a record 5,000 attendees from artists to corporate suits
NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.
The NFT.NYC conference, now in its third year, was a coming-out party for the NFT community, attracting a record 5,000 attendees from artists to corporate suits
NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.
Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls
Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban's first pair of smart glasses — Starting Thursday, the first pair of smart glasses …
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's plans for smart eyewear, potential privacy issues, lack of AR features, the inadequacies of smartphones, and more
Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps
Developers will get the experimental feature with Oculus' next SDK — Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video …
Q&A with Zuckerberg about his vision for the metaverse and its potential to further splinter our sense of shared reality, Biden's comments about Facebook, more
Gowalla, now resurrected as a social AR startup, raises a $4M seed round co-led by Google's venture arm GV and Spark Capital
Facebook details Infinite Office, a virtual space for working from home, coming to Quest 2 later this year
Nicole Lee / Engadget :
Facebook says it has partnered with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica to develop consumer “smart glasses”, coming next year, but shared few details
The company partnered with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica — Facebook says its first pair of consumer “smart glasses” will be releasing next year …
Interview with Facebook's Andrew Bosworth on Project Aria, its AR glasses project that is using ~100 testers in Seattle and SF to refine the experience
a new research effort that will help us understand how to build software & hardware necessary for AR glasses. Our vision of AR requires a foundational shift in computing technology...
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on the impact of the pandemic on making VR mainstream, AR glasses, and why he doesn't want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”
How Facebook's CEO is thinking about the future of augmented reality, virtual reality, and more — Social networks contain multitudes.
Foursquare says it's merging with location data company Factual in an all-stock deal; the two companies say they brought in $150M+ in combined 2019 revenue
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal :