By Chris Stokel-Walker November 30, 2023 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been behind some of the most eye-watering fines and censures of big tech companies in the last few years. But now arguably the biggest big tech company of them all is seeking to get its own back—by petitioning a court to declare … Continue reading Meta’s new legal strategy: calling the FTC’s actions unconstitutional
By Scott Nover October 19, 2023 There’s a truism in tech that goes something like “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” It’s a tired phrase, but until advertising ceases to be the economic engine of the internet, we’re stuck with it. Digital ads have made technology companies like Alphabet, … Continue reading Meta’s plan to charge users for Facebook access is a big “FU” to the E.U.
Meta’s Threads app is here to challenge Twitter Karissa Bell @karissabe Threads, Meta’s text-based app to challenge Twitter, is now official. Mark Zuckerberg announced the new service one day ahead of the July 6th launch date that appeared in app stores earlier this week. Meta has begun rolling out the new service around … Continue reading Meta’s Threads sent another app named Threads to the top of the App Store charts
By Casey Fiesler—The Conversation July 11, 2023 Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the latest in a series of decisions that has spurred millions of users to sign up with alternative microblogging platforms since Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year. In addition to a surge … Continue reading POV: Meta’s Threads is surging, but let’s not call it a Twitter-killer yet
By Chris Morris July 06, 2023 Mark Zuckerberg’s strutting around the internet today, thanks to the early success of his Twitter-alternative Threads. But skip over to the official website of the product, and you’ll notice something odd. Instead of the typical .com domain used by most major product launches, Threads opts for a .net … Continue reading Meta’s Threads launch puts the spotlight on another app of the same name
By Michael Grothaus July 06, 2023 While it’s too early to call Threads—Meta’s new microblogging platform—a bona fide “Twitter killer,” Mark Zuckerberg’s answer to Elon Musk’s flailing social network is off to a good start. Zuckerberg took to the new platform to announce that within the first four hours of its launch, five million … Continue reading 10 million users joined Meta’s Threads in just 7 hours. It took Twitter 780 days to do that
Meta’s Instagram-linked Twitter rival ‘Threads’ could arrive on July 6th Mariella Moon @mariella_moon We’ve known for quite a while that Meta has been building a Twitter competitor, but now we have a more solid idea of when it will become available. A listing for the app called Threads has popped up in … Continue reading Meta’s Threads app is here to challenge Twitter
Andrew Tarantola @terrortola Our reverence towards stars and celebrities was not borne of the 19th century’s cinematic revolution, but rather has been a resilient aspect of our culture for millennia. Ancient tales of immortal gods rising again and again after fatal injury, the veneration and deification of social and political leaders, Madame Tussauds’ wax … Continue reading Meta’s Voicebox AI is a Dall-E for text-to-speech
Meta’s Horizon Worlds is opening to young teens in the US and Canada Jon Fingas @jonfingas Months later than rumored, Meta’s Horizon Worlds is opening its doors to younger teens. The company is making its metaverse space accessible to teens aged 13 to 17 in the US and Canada in the weeks ahead. Unsurprisingly, … Continue reading Meta’s Horizon Worlds is opening to young teens in the US and Canada
Meta’s newest AI determines proper protein folds 60 times fasterIt’s ‘Mad Libs’ for O-Chem. A. Tarantola @terrortola Life on Earth would not exist as we know it, if not for the protein molecules that enable critical processes from photosynthesis and enzymatic degradation to sight and our immune system. And like most facets of the … Continue reading Meta’s newest AI determines proper protein folds 60 times faster
