A day after Snap reached a tentative settlement with the plaintiff in a social media addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant, the case was dropped. In a statement, Meta said the plaintiff decided to drop his case against Meta without receiving any payment. TikTok and Google’s YouTube had previously reached settlement agreements
Kylie Jenner looks a lot like Meta’s glasses: there’s no denying they’re popular, but that doesn’t mean they’re not also controversial. (Ask Club Chalamet. Actually, don’t.) It is undeniable that smart glasses with camera and video have been sold: at least 7 million pairs last year. Now, a new wave of attention (and scrutiny) has
Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn, betting that artificial intelligence is changing the way companies protect employee devices. The Palo Alto-based startup said Wednesday it raised $180 million in an all-equity Series A funding round that valued it at $1.2 billion, with backing from
Meta is adding parental supervision tools to Threads, the company announced Tuesday. With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view the time their teens spend in Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings through Family Center, Meta’s hub for parental controls across all of its
Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit, which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents: “You don’t need to type a single word.” Finally, a technology company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imagination. StoryKit was
Instagram announced Tuesday that users can now swap music in their published posts and carousels. Until now, users could only change the music in a post by deleting it and then re-uploading it. With the newly launched “Replace Audio” tool, users can update their post’s music at any time while keeping the post’s existing likes,
