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Meta looks to Samsung for reducing its chip dependence on TSMC

Meta is heavily invested in artificial intelligence and extended reality. As such, the company is in need of advanced chips, and there are only a handful of companies in the world that can produce these chips. TSMC is one of the leading producers which is why all tech companies flock to it, but Samsung's also […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 months ago

LG and Meta join hands to compete with XR headsets from Apple, Samsung

Apple launched its XR headset, the Vision Pro, last month, and Samsung is expected to launch its first XR headset before the end of this year. To compete with these two tech giants, Meta has joined hands with LG to expand its XR platform. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with top LG executives for a […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Instagram is stealing another feature from Snapchat

In a new post on X/Twitter, Alessandro Paluzzi has revealed that Meta is working on a new feature for Instagram called Friend Map and he has also posted screenshots of the feature, spilling beans on the next big thing coming to the social media platform. Going by the information he shared, Friend Map, as the […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Meta Quest could soon become an AirPlay receiver

In a post on X/Twitter, the VP of MR/VR at Meta, Mark Rabkin, has revealed that Meta has requested Apple to allow the Quest headset (most likely the Quest 3) to be an AirPlay receiver, which would allow people to play content from their Apple devices, such as iPhone, iPad, and Mac, to the Meta […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

What Samsung can learn from Apple’s Vision Pro disappointments

Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset launched amid much fanfare a few weeks ago. The company had unveiled this device last year. At $3,499, this is one of the more expensive headsets on the market, one that you'd only find the very enthusiastic of Apple fans forking up money for. Even many of those fans […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta Quest 3 is better than Apple Vision Pro

The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has posted a video on Instagram where he has shared his views on the Apple Vision Pro after trying out the mixed-reality (MR) headset and how it compares with the one MR headset from his company, the Meta Quest 3. While Mark said a lot of things about the […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Threads starts showing trending topics in the US

In October 2023, Meta started testing a feature on Threads that shows the trending topics (topics that people are discussing the most at the moment) on the platform. Now, the Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has announced that the company has started rolling out the feature to a limited number of people on a test […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Meta now allows you to save posts on Threads

The Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has announced that Threads has started testing the ability to save posts on the social media platform. According to an image shared by Meta, you will be able to save a post on Threads by clicking on the three-dot icon at the top-right corner of a post and tapping […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Meta is developing AI detection tools for Facebook, Instagram, Threads

As the lines between human and AI-generated content get blurrier by the day, tech companies are taking measures to keep users informed of what type of content they're dealing with. For instance, every photo manipulated through Samsung's new Generative Edit feature and every Generative wallpaper on the Galaxy S24 series has a small watermark and […]

By Mihai Matei
2 months ago

Meta adding support for iPhone 15 Pro’s Spatial videos to Quest headsets

Meta has announced that it will add support for the playback of Spatial videos recorded using the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max to the Quest 3, Quest Pro, and Quest 2 headsets with the Meta Quest Build 62.0 software update, which, it will start rolling out on 7 February 2024. The […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Zuckerberg gets $750 million cash per year from Meta’s first-ever dividend

Meta (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 […]

By Adnan Farooqui
3 months ago

After backlash, Meta brings back Chromecast support to Quest VR headsets

A couple of weeks ago, Meta removed the support for Chromecast from Quest headsets, preventing people from mirroring the content that these devices show on their internal displays to Chromecast devices. People were furious at the company for making this change. Well, Meta seems to have listened to users as the company has now brought […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
3 months ago

Meta is removing Chromecast option from Quest headsets

Meta’s Quest VR headsets allow people to mirror the content that these devices show on the internal displays to Chromecast-equipped devices. The company, unfortunately, seems to be removing the ability to do so. According to a new report from Android Central, Meta is removing the support for Chromecast from Quest VR headsets with a software […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Instagram introduces Backdrop, a tool to replace backgrounds in photos using AI

At the Connect event that was held in September this year, Meta announced Backdrop for Instagram, a tool powered by generative AI that can replace the background in an image with the one that you describe to it in the text format. Back then, the company hadn’t revealed an exact timeline for the release of […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Threads by Instagram is now finally available in Europe

Meta launched Threads, a text-based social media platform from Instagram that’s a direct rival to X (previously known as Twitter), in July this year. Back then, the company made Threads available in 100 countries, including the US and the UK. However, the countries in the European Union weren’t on the list. That’s changing today. The […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

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