Meta releases Quest 3 VR headset
$499.99 headset arrives in Autumn
Meta has officially announced its Quest 3 VR headset in a post on Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram.
Meta threatens to banish Californian news
If it is forced to pay for it
Social notworking company Meta has threatened to ban news content from its platform in California if the state government passes legislation requiring tech companies to pay publishers.
Meta in talks with Magic Leap
Part of the Metaverse project
Facebook's parent company Meta is reportedly in discussions with augmented reality start-up Magic Leap to establish a multiyear agreement for intellectual property licensing and contract manufacturing in North America.
WhatsApp users can edit messages
If they are quick
WhatsApp users can finally edit their messages.
Meta starting to built its own AI chips
Meta Training and Inference Accelerator can't play Crystalis yet
Meta is building its first custom chip specifically for running AI models.
Telcos wants Big Tech help to pay for 5G upgrades
Want EU to make it happen
Big tech companies accounting for more than five per cent of a telecoms provider's peak average internet traffic should help fund the rollout of 5G and broadband across Europe, according to a draft proposal by the telecoms industry.
Meta reports downscale its metaverse dreams
Although you would not know it
A study commissioned by Meta has found that the metaverse could contribute around 2.4 per cent to U.S. annual GDP by 2035, equating to as much as $760 billion. However, while it is likely that Meta hoped that would be the headline, it seems to need to remember a much earlier report which said that metalife would be much better sooner.
Big Tech lay-offs are already costing them
19th-century staff management approaches don’t work
Faced with falling margins after the Covid bubble burst, Big Tech let thousands of staff go on the assumption that they could rehire them when things got better at the end of the year, but they might have miscalculated, according an Intuit boss.
Russians think that less than a per cent of its trolls are detected
The west are so stupid they believe stories about cathedrals
Buried in the secret documents about the Ukrainian war which a kid leaked to his gaming group to show how important he was, is an indication that nice Mr Putin cleaned the West's clock when it came to manipulating social media and search engine rankings.
Meta allows Europeans to opt out of data sharing
No more personalised adverts for a lucky few
Meta announced that starting next Wednesday, some Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union can opt out of sharing first-party data used to serve highly personalised ads.