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Meta Plans to Grow Threads By Ramming Its Posts to Facebook
Threads was a unicorn in the vacuum left behind by a Musk-infested Twitter turned X. But as the excitement for the sterile and lifeless platform inevitably waned for users, Meta’s newest trick to give the illusion of Threads’ growth is to just jam its posts into Facebook feeds. Thread users noticed embedded posts from Threads…
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Surprising No One, More Than Half of the Teens Who Responded to a Survey Admitted They Use Social Media For Almost Five Hours a Day
A new Gallup survey found more than half of teenagers in the U.S. spend an average of 4.8 hours on social media each day. The responses came from 1,591 people ages 13-19 years old, and the survey’s findings show that as teens got older, they stayed on social media even longer. Gallup also surveyed the…
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Remember That Letter Calling for a Pause on AI? It Didn’t Work
Top tech and business leaders begged generative AI companies to pause new developments for six months. AI companies clearly didn’t listen.
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Meta Quest 3 Shows Us the Metaverse Dream isn’t Dead Yet
Watching the Meta Quest 3 being announced by Meta made me realise something – the hardware available for virtual, augmented and mixed reality is finally catching up with the big idea pitches everyone had about this concept called the “metaverse” a couple of years ago. Seeing this $799 headset, part of a product line formerly…