Tag: meta

Meta opens the Quest operating system to third-party virtual reality devices

Jesse Collins
Virtual reality - Teens wearing VR headsets - Meta Logo made from flower petals

Asus and Lenovo have already announced their intentions to develop headsets Meta has been pouring tens of billions of dollars into the development of augmented and virtual reality technology, though without yet seeing the popularity it had expected in its Quest operating system. Now it is making moves to broaden its appeal It appears that Meta may be making moves to make its own augmented and virtual reality platform more accessible than Apple has done with its Vision Pro mixed reality headset that currently comes with a price tag of…

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Threads app now has more daily users than X

Stephanie Beck
Threads App More DAU than X

Zuckerberg’s microblogging application is now more popular than former Twitter Meta’s newest social media platform, the Threads app, has recently overtaken X (formerly known as Twitter) in terms of its daily active users in the United States. The achievement was initially noted in December 2023 It was the Apptopia data intelligence firm that first observed that the Threads app had more daily active users (DAUs) than the X social media platform. “Threads DAUs in the US passed X in December 2023 and it has not looked back,” said Apptopia vice…

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Microsoft launches its tiniest artificial intelligence model to date

L. Green
Artificial intelligence model - Microsoft launch

Phi-3 is the smallest so far and learned from “bedtime stories” from other large language models Microsoft has released the latest version of its tiny artificial intelligence model, the Phi-3 Mini, which is the smallest it has launched to date. This is the first of three small models it intends to launch The Phi-3 Mini is only 3.8 billion parameters. Its training was based on data notably smaller than those for GPT-4 and other large language models (LLMs). The new Phi-3 Mini artificial intelligence model can be found on Hugging…

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Apple ordered to remove WhatsApp from the App Store in China

Stephanie Beck
App store - No more WhatsApp China

The iPhone maker has removed the popular messaging application from the shop in the country Apple has announced that it has been required to remove the WhatsApp messaging application by Meta from the App Store in China in order to comply with regulations issued by Beijing. The Threads application was also required to be removed Both WhatsApp and Threads were taken down from the App Store when Apple received an order from Chinese authorities to do so.  Officials from the country cited national security concerns without any additional details regarding…

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Instagram social media platform is testing a new “Blend” feature

Stephanie Beck
Social Media Platform - Instagram New Feature

The new feature is being designed to allow friends to privately watch a Reel feed together Instagram has reportedly been working on a new “Blend” feature for its social media platform, which is focused on allowing two users to be able to watch Reels together. The first step would be to have one person invite another into the Blend In this way, the social media platform users will be able to create a Private Reel feed that they will be able to watch together. The feed will be composed of…

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