Meta’s Photorealistic Avatars Can Be Generated with Just an iPhone
Scanning a photorealistic avatar for virtual reality (VR) once took more than 100 cameras to pull off, but now researchers at Meta have revealed it can be done with just an iPhone.
Scanning a photorealistic avatar for virtual reality (VR) once took more than 100 cameras to pull off, but now researchers at Meta have revealed it can be done with just an iPhone.
Mark Zuckerberg posted a bizarre picture of himself working on a Mac laptop, that shows Apple's logo Photoshopped out, underlining the hostility between the two tech titans.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has been served with eight different lawsuits that contend the company deliberately adjusted its algorithm to hook young people.
Meta appears to be pulling back on its consumer camera products, both those on shelves and in development, as its Reality Labs division continues to lose billions of dollars.
Instagram has announced four updates to the platform that are rolling out to users today: Reels can be up to 90 seconds long, audio can be imported to Reels, stickers can be added to Reels, and users can now pin content to their profile grid.
A Texas law that would have banned social media giants from regulating certain forms of online speech has been blocked by the United States Supreme Court.
In a major victory for privacy advocates, Clearview AI has been permanently banned, nationwide, from making its facial recognition database available to most businesses and other private entities.
Adobe has launched the Content Scheduler as part of its Creative Cloud Express platform, a move it says is in response to requests for a unified way to allow creatives to plan, create, and publish content across social media.
TikTok is the latest social media platform to announce a new way for content creators to make money on the app, similar to YouTube's ad revenue sharing system.
Meta's investment in virtual and augmented realities (VR and AR) is pushing forward and a new report says the company is planning to release four headsets in the next two years.
Instagram is testing the ability to pin posts to a profile, which would allow users to highlight specific photos at the top rather than hiding them under a deluge of newer ones.
The ability to tag products in Feed posts on Instagram is rolling out to all users today, enabling any photo to act as an advertisement.
Facebook wants to make it easier for anyone to share short-form videos, or Reels, from other apps through a dedicated new button that will send content directly to their Facebook accounts.
A new report found that Facebook was accidentally elevating harmful content for the past six months instead of suppressing it. A second report found that its internal policies may have resulted in the underreporting of photos of child abuse.
Instagram has announced several new messaging features including the ability to share music previews, send a message silently, the ability to see who’s online and available to chat, the ability to reply while browsing a feed, and more.
More than five years after the company did away with the chronological feed in lieu of an algorithm-based system, Instagram has officially brought it back after teasing its return yesterday.
Instagram may soon release the much-anticipated chronological feed, if a solution to a recently-posted word puzzle is to be believed. Instagram has already confirmed the feature is coming, making its appearance here feel like more than a coincidence.
Instagram has announced that its product tagging feature is coming to everyone in the United States over the next few months as part of its overarching goal to move away from photography and towards video and shopping.
Facebook has announced that it will be doubling the video recording limits of the Facebook Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses from 30 seconds up to a minute. The glasses are also launching in Spain, Austria, Belgium, and France.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says that NFTs are "hopefully" coming to Instagram in the next few months. Additionally, he said that the company plans to allow users to mint them within the application.
Just a week after Russia announced that it had banned Facebook, Meta's other popular platform Instagram will be blocked in the country on March 14.
Meta's Head of Youth Pavni Diwanji, who was responsible for overseeing Instagram's highly controversial version of its product aimed at children, is leaving Meta as part of a restructuring.
Russian prosecutors have reportedly asked a court to ban Meta's Facebook and Instagram and called the two social network platforms "extremist." If approved, it would criminalize the operations of the two companies in Russia.
Instagram has pulled the Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps from the Apple and Google app stores. While the company was expected to wind down the IGTV app, the removal of these two apps was a surprise.
Russian officials have announced that access to Meta-owned platform Facebook has been blocked in the country in response to what it says has been Meta's repeated discriminatory actions against Russian media.
During his State of the Union address on March 1, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass new laws aimed at protecting children on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Instagram has announced that it is adding automatic captions to videos uploaded to the platform. The feature follows TikTok, which has enabled auto captions since last April.
More than 11 years after it first launched and Instagram still has no native iPad app. Adam Mosseri, the company's head, says that fact isn't likely to change any time soon.
Instagram has quietly eliminated the lower tiers of its daily usage time limits. The 10 and 15-minute options are gone, replaced with 30 minutes as the minimum. The app also gives priority placement to the three-hour limit option.
Instagram has announced a change to Stories: instead of all reactions automatically appearing in the recipient's inbox, users can now like a Story without sending a message and all likes can only be visible to the Story owner.
Pidgeon, formerly Lensii, is a photo-sharing app designed to take on Instagram. Its founder says it will run on a freemium model and will never play host to the annoying onslaught of ads that plagues the app it's meant to replace.
The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Meta for its use of facial recognition, alleging Facebook collected the biometric data of millions of Texans without consent. The state is reportedly seeking damages that could exceed $500 billion.
A new bipartisan bill has been introduced into the United States Senate that takes aim at algorithmic-based feeds like those on Facebook and Instagram. The bill would direct two government agencies to investigate ways to add friction to content sharing.
Instagram has announced that the ability to bulk delete or archive posts, stories, IGTV, and Reels is rolling out to all users starting today along with additional new account controls.
Meta has published a blog post that takes aim at the language used to report that it "threatened" to pull Instagram and Facebook out of European countries if the rules around data transfers were changed.
Meta might shut down Instagram and Facebook in Europe if the company isn't allowed to process data from its European users on its U.S.-based servers, a change that is currently under regulators' scrutiny.
Nikon has issued a warning that scammers are impersonating Nikon Public Relations to YouTube and Facebook channel owners. Nikon says that these emails have no relation to Nikon or its affiliates.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, released its fourth-quarter 2021 earnings this week and subsequently revealed that its virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) division lost $10.2 billion dollars last year.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a report that shows it found that more than 95,000 people say they were scammed out of at least $770 million in losses to fraud initiated on social networks, specifically naming Facebook and Instagram.
A Connecticut mother has filed a lawsuit against Instagram, through its parent company Meta, as well as Snapchat for their alleged role in her daughter's suicide that was linked to "extreme addiction" to the platforms.