Meta laid off employees on Thursday in its Reality Labs division, which encompasses various virtual and augmented reality projects. The cuts impact employees within Oculus Studios, which develops apps and games for Meta’s Quest headsets. Meta did not specify how many people were impacted by the layoffs, but said that the cuts impacted people working […]
Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children who have suffered from online harm are still putting pressure on social media companies to step up. On Thursday, 45 families who lost children to online harms — from sextortion to cyberbullying — held a vigil outside one […]
Instagram Threads, Meta’s newest social network and X competitor, is officially relocating from the website Threads.net to Threads.com. The transition will coincide with a handful of quality-of-life improvements for the Threads web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, saved posts, and likes, as well as other tools for creating new columns, copying […]
FBC: Firebreak is Remedy Entertainment’s unexpected foray into the multiplayer shooter genre. Set in the occult office space world of Control, the co-op experience is unlike anything the Alan Wake 2 maker has ever done before and it now has a release date. The Finnish studio revealed that FBC: Firebreak is out in…Read more...
Electronic Arts has officially announced Madden NFL 26, revealing details about the various versions you can pre-order and what platforms the football sim is launching on in August. For the first time in over a decade, Madden is skipping last-gen consoles like the PlayStation 4 and returning to Nintendo via a Switch 2…Read more...
London-based fintech giant Revolut reported a record $1.4 billion in pre-tax profit for 2024, up 149% from the previous year, according to its annual report released Thursday. The company’s strong performance was largely driven by explosive growth in its wealth division, which includes cryptocurrency trading, commodities, and savings products. Revolut’s wealth revenue soared 298% year-over-year […]
The funeral of Pope Francis will be livestreamed on YouTube on Saturday. Pope Francis passed away earlier this week at age 88 due to a stroke and cardiac arrest. Vatican News’ YouTube channel will begin coverage of the funeral at 10 AM CET/4 AM ET, with availability in English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German. […]
Flex, a startup that offers personal finance software for business owners, has acquired Maza, a finance app aimed at Spanish speakers in the U.S., for $40 million, the companies told TechCrunch exclusively. At first glance, the pairing may seem a bit curious. Flex’s software and payments infrastructure is to help business owners have a single […]
Data centers to train and run AI may soon contain millions of chips, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and require power equivalent to a large city’s electricity grid, if the current trends hold. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Georgetown, Epoch AI, and Rand, which looked at the growth trajectory of […]
In an ongoing antitrust case, the Federal Trade Commission says that Meta has a monopoly on “personal social networking services” and should have to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp. Throughout the proceedings, there have been several internal messages and plans that have come to light. In one, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered wiping all Facebook […]