Meta, the self-styled "metaverse company" formerly known as Facebook, has taken on a novel role de-hyping the virtual world technology its founder bet the farm on just a few short years ago.No, it has...
Proposals to pay for broadband networks by imposing new fees on Big Tech companies "are built on a false premise," Meta executives wrote in a blog post today."Network fee proposals do not recognize th...
I can't think of a single egg preparation more finicky than poaching. Do it correctly and you'll get a plump, oval balloon you could easily mistake for an orb of fresh mozzarella, but do it the wrong ...
Atomically thin materials like graphene are single molecules in which all the chemical bonds are oriented so that the resulting molecule forms a sheet. These often have distinctive electronic properti...
A group of independent international researchers has released its full analysis of newly uncovered metagenomic data collected by the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January and F...
There are plenty of reasons to turn your camera off during a Zoom or Teams meeting--maybe you're cleaning your office and you don't want to look like you're not paying attention, or your kid is climbi...
Facebook head Tom Alison announced today that the company is testing the ability for users to access their Messenger inbox within the Facebook app. Back in 2016, Facebook removed messaging capabilitie...
[photo1]Vince BeiserIn October of last year, an enormous new creature appeared on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean, about 1,400 miles southwest of San Diego. It was a remote-controlled, 90-ton machine ...
Over the past few years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) saw worrying trends indicating that teen sextortion is on the rise online and, in extreme cases, leads to suicid...
On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI's GPT-3 model despite being "10x smaller." Smaller-sized AI models could lea...
After a jury unanimously decided last September that Meta owed $175 million to walkie-talkie app-maker Voxer for patent infringement, Meta tried to avoid paying up by requesting a judge either reject ...
Facebook-parent Meta has launched a subscription service, called Meta Verified, that will allow users to add the coveted blue check mark to their Instagram and Facebook accounts for up to $15 a month ...
[photo1]A few weeks ago, this column discussed the fallout from the SDNY jury verdict in the Adidas/Thom Browne dispute over the latter's use of stripes on garments. In the latest big trademark news o...
[photo1]We've all done it. Playing dumb is a vital part of any petty person's repertoire. Diplomatic strategies like saying, "Sorry, I didn't catch that," to something you definitely caught to force t...
Meta is starting to test closed spaces called "members-only worlds" in Horizon Worlds, its social VR experience. The company has begun a limited alpha test to give creators the ability to grow and mod...
Meet Renaissance Fusion, a Grenoble-based startup that has been working on nuclear fusion for the past couple of years. The company recently raised $16.4 million (EUR15 million) in funding in a seed r...
Two years after the company formerly known as Facebook suspended then-president Donald Trump's account, it's bringing him back. Meta announced its decision to restore former president Trump's Facebook...
Fellow humans, we are now just 90 seconds away from our doom -- also known as midnight on the Doomsday Clock. It's "a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation," according to the Bulleti...
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