Facebook today, announced they are making Horizon Worlds available for free to everyone 18 years of age or older in the US and Canada.
Today Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which aims to bring together Facebook apps and technologies under one new company brand. Facebook says Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.
Facebook firmly believes the metaverse “will deepen that human connection regardless of physical distance and without being tied to devices.”
Today, Facebook filed separate lawsuits in federal court against four individuals providing services intended to artificially inflate likes and followers of Instagram accounts, a practice known as fake engagement.
A bug in Facebook’s SDK has caused a large number of iOS apps to begin crashing including Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and any other app that makes use of the Facebook API like PUBG and yes, even Mario Kart.
Facebook’s R&D department rolled out their third app this week and this one shows promise – if they can pry off Twitter’s death grip over the second screen market. The new app is called Venue and it’s built to engage fans during live events. It works much like Twitter and its hashtags fans use to…
Websites are throwing some good shade at Mark Zuckerberg this week after he proclaimed Facebook should not be the “arbiter of truth”. The statement came after Twitter flagged President Trump’s tweets as “deceptive”. In response to Facebook’s announcement, satire websites began place clearly fictional posts on the social network platform as a test of Facebook’s…
Both Kaspersky and Symantec released reports this week pointing out the increase in attacks by Wild Neutron (aka Jripbot, Morpho, or Butterfly). WN had gone mostly dormant (or undetected?) since 2013 after hitting Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft using zero-day Java exploits (seeded in the hacked forums of various websites) and the OSX/Pintsized Mac OS…
“The Facebook” went live on February 4, 2004 from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard University dorm room. Ads began running shortly thereafter. In 2005, Facebook rolled out the News Feed and by 2007, Facebook simplified its design. By 2008, Facebook had 100 million users and launched Facebook Chat. In 2012, Facebook hit 1 billion members and in…
Yesterday, many, if not most, major websites including CNN, MSNBC, Yelp, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, Gawker, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Slate, Kickstarter, and many others were taken down by a Facebook Connect bug that redirected users to an error page upon loading, effectively bringing much of the Internet to its knees. Users who were not…
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