Facebook on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headsets can hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves.
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Reddit will raise up to $700-million in a fundraising round, cashing in on a jump in its influence in the financial world to triple its valuation to over $10-billion.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse company”. But what does that mean?
An app used mostly for watching videogames just clinched the sports interview of the year in another blow to the traditional world of broadcasting.
Users of Facebook’s WhatsApp instant messaging platform can now send disappearing photos and videos on its platform starting this week, as it looks to better compete with Snapchat.
Shares of Pinterest fell about 20% in pre-market trading on Friday after the company warned of slowing user growth in the US, its largest market.
Tencent’s WeChat has temporarily suspended registration of new users in mainland China as it undergoes a technical upgrade “to align with relevant laws and regulations”.
Facebook is creating a product team to work on the “metaverse”, a digital world where people can move between different devices and communicate in a virtual environment, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
In terms of the Cybercrimes Act, messages that threaten destruction to an individual’s person or property are criminal offences. However, the legislation does not yet have a commencement date. By Ahmore Burger-Smidt.
A wave of online racism aimed at some of England’s black soccer players has highlighted how social media companies’ content moderation systems are failing to monitor the use of emojis.