Articles tagged "Meta"

The umbrella company Meta which owns Facebook was fined €1.2 billion by the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA). According to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), it is the largest fine...

Meta'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...

Meta is initiating price cuts on its VR headsets. Starting March 5, the premium Quest Pro will be retailing for $1000, instead of its previous price of $1,500. The rather significant price drop was...

Facebook and Instagram users will soon get a new paid verified badge option in the form of Meta Verified. The $12 per month on web and $15/month on iOS and Android subscription will grant users a...

Today WhatsApp is announcing that the Status feature is getting a ton of new functionality. The updates that enable all of these new functions are already rolling out to users globally, and should...

Today Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it has imposed a fine of €265 million on Meta's Irish subsidiary. The reason is a 2021 data breach on Facebook that exposed the phone...

Back in January a Google exec picked on Apple for "green bubble bullying" via iMessage, and today Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a bone to pick with Apple too, and it's also about iMessage. In an...

Meta's Quest Pro VR/MR headset just became official, and it's powered by the brand-new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 chipset. Thankfully, Qualcomm itself has now published some more details about...

Meta is introducing the first in a new line of high-end VR and mixed reality headsets starting with the Meta Quest Pro (which was previously demoed under its code name, Project Cambria). “Pro” tends...

Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is starting to test Community Chats for Facebook Groups inside Messenger, and those words definitely sound rather confusing, so let's unpack what we're...

The Project Cambria VR headset that Meta has been teasing off and on will be sold as the “Meta Quest Pro”, making it clear that it is a more advanced device than the current Quest 2. CEO Mark...

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri and Instagram’s social media team are refuting claims that the Instagram app is tracking location data and sharing it with followers looking for your exact location. A...

WhatsApp lets users link a desktop computer so they can continue to make and receive calls and send messages without needing to have your smartphone nearby. This is done through WhatsApp Web via a...

The Meta Quest 2 VR headset launched a little under two years ago at $300, $100 less than the original Quest. We had it good until now, but Meta has decided to raise the prices – starting in August,...

Today Facebook announced a pretty substantial change to its app. First off, the main feed you see when you open the app is now called Home, which makes sense and is way overdue. But that's not the...

Today Instagram is out with a new update, and this one lets you buy stuff straight from your chats. This works for purchases from "qualified small businesses", which will confirm your orders, create...

Compared to Messenger, also owned by Meta, it took WhatsApp a very long time to implement emoji reactions, and it's finally released this capability recently to much enjoyment from users worldwide....

Over in the US, Instagram has started testing new ways to have you verify your age. In addition to simply uploading your ID, a method that may take up to two days to verify, you now have two more...

Meta continues to develop the hardware foundations of the Metaverse and today CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off several prototypes. Most of them are designed to test one particular feature that the team...

Nearly 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...