In October 2022, Apple updated its App Store Review Guidelines to clarify that sales of “boosted” posts in social media apps must use the App Store’s in-app purchase system. Apple thereby receives up to a 30% cut of these sales. As a result of that clarification, Meta today announced that it will soon charge advertisers […]
Read MoreMeta (Facebook) co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ranks as the world’s fifth richest person with a net worth of over $140 billion. He’s not sitting on $140 billion in cold, hard cash. His 13% stake in Meta accounts for the vast majority of his net worth, but that stake will soon get him over $750 […]
Read MoreThe Meta Quest VR headset will soon be able to play spatial videos captured on an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max, Meta announced today. The upcoming v62 update will add support for the feature. Spatial videos can be uploaded to the Meta Quest headset using the Meta Quest mobile app, so that […]
Read MoreIn September this year, Meta announced Meta AI, a virtual assistant powered by generative AI, for Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. This chatbot features a tool called Imagine which can generate images from text prompts. The company made Meta AI and Imagine available to the public last month. Now, Meta has announced that it is expanding […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Threads, an Instagram app from Meta, has surpassed 100 million users in less than a week. This makes it one of the fastest growing platforms in the world. Many users have flocked to Threads since Twitter implemented “rate limiting.” You can now follow team Windows Central on Threads too! Meta […]
Read MoreMeta today officially launched Threads, the new social media app that it has been working on as an alternative to Twitter. Threads was meant to launch on Thursday, but the company pushed it live early due to the excitement surrounding its debut. Threads is described as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app,” and it is unmistakable as […]
Read MoreMeta promised to launch Threads, its answer to Twitter, on July 6. Today, the social media surprisingly went live, and now everyone can view content. However, the full features of the new platform are limited to some markets, including the United States and the United Kingdom, because they have “weaker privacy laws.” Users in regions […]
Read MoreTwitter has gone through a lot of changes, including ownership (now owned by billionaire Elon Musk). You can say there have been some good changes and some bad changes, but it is what it is. Well, if you are looking to bail out of Twitter because of the severely limiting things that have happened to […]
Read MoreOwning games on a physical format – be it a disc or a cartridge – is falling out of fashion (at least console makers would like you to believe that). Owning games at all may also be going the way of the floppy disk as subscriptions are becoming more common. The latest is Meta Quest+, […]
Read MoreMeta held an employee preview of its upcoming Twitter competitor and a screenshot of the app managed to leak. The internal name for the new social media app is “Project 92” while the rumors suggest the official name may be “Threads”. Based on the leaked screenshot we can see the interface looks quite similar to […]
Read MoreMeta’s Twitter-inspired paid verification service initially went live in Australia and New Zealand, and starting today it’s also available to Facebook and Instagram users in the US. The service costs $11.99 per month if you sign up on the web, or $14.99 through a mobile app store. The former option only allows you to get […]
Read MoreAvatars are officially coming to WhatsApp. The customizable, expressive characters, which are already available on Facebook and Instagram, can now be used as profile pictures on the messaging service or sent in the form of one of 36 custom stickers. The process of customizing the cartoony virtual characters is similar to Apple’s Memoji, except WhatsApp’s […]
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook’s rebranding to Meta at the company’s annual Connect event last year to reposition the company for the “new internet,” the metaverse. The metaverse has been around for some time as a kind of urban legend, perhaps aptly described in the 2011 science fantasy book Ready Player One. That was until some […]
Read MoreNearly a year ago to this day we reported on a Meta smartwatch in the works. Тhe wearable (internal code name Milan) was apparently in development for two years before Meta decided to pull the plug earlier this week for reasons that are still unknown. Today, we finally get an actual look at a prototype […]
Read MoreApple has responded to Meta’s plan to take a nearly 50% commission for digital asset purchases made inside the metaverse after complaining about fees in the App Store, calling the decision hypocritical. Yesterday, it was revealed that Meta, more commonly known as Facebook, plans to take a steep 47.5% commission for digital asset purchases made […]
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg wants to make Meta’s forthcoming AR glasses an “iPhone moment” that will cast him and the company in a new light, according to a former employee who worked on the project. The comment was made to The Verge for a report outlining Meta’s roadmap for AR glasses, which includes at least four different […]
Read MoreSource: Windows Central The metaverse is a concept that’s been around for a long while (decades and decades, if not centuries), but its prominence in tech is a recent development. Now it’s a word that’s on the tip of many, many companies’ tongues, companies that had never said “metaverse” before October 2021. The question is: […]
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