Search Engine Land » PPC » Threads is adding branded content tools to create paid promotion opportunities Threads is implementing branded content tools to give marketers access to paid promotion opportunities. Meta’s new social platform doesn’t serve ads yet. However, this feature will enable brands to explore the possibility of …
Read More »Meta Quest 3 VR Headset
Meta has officially unveiled the Quest 3 virtual reality headset, and it’s coming this fall with numerous improvements over the second-gen headset. Meta is vague about the nitty-gritty specs, but we know the basics, including a 40% thinner frame and double the graphics performance thanks to a new Qualcomm Snapdragon …
Read More »Baskin-Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Oreos Are Reportedly Being Available In 2019
Baskin-Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Oreos Are Supposedly Coming In 2019 Mint chocolate fans, rejoice. Mint chocolate chip is easily one of the very best flavors of ice cream, so it was only a matter of time before Oreo brought mint chocolate into its ever-growing lineup of flavors. According to Instagram …
Read More »Giannis Antetokounmpo, James Harden lead NBA MVP race|SI.com
We have among the deepest MVP fields in current memory as we go into 2019. LeBron’s departure from Cleveland has actually opened the door for a slate of brand-new faces in the East, while no Warrior has actually snatched the crown out west. A set of veterans in new cities …
Read More »The best ways to See And Block All The Apps Tracking You On Facebook
Facebook is currently dealing with a scandal over using its information by British political research study company Cambridge Analytica. It didn’t get the data through a hack, however apparently through a Facebook app which gave a researcher user information — and likewise the data of their friends. The majority of …
Read More »Facebook Events app comes to Android
Facebook’s standalone Events app that launched in October on iOS is launching on Android today. The Facebook Events app helps you browse nearby happenings, see the dates of your upcoming Facebook Events as well as imported calendars and aggregates wall posts and alerts from Events to declutter your main app’s …
Read More »Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe steps down, will now lead PC-based VR division within company
In a blog post today, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe announced that he will be stepping down as CEO of the Facebook-owned virtual reality company. Looking ahead and thinking about where I’m most passionate, I’ve decided to lead the PC VR group—pushing the state of VR forward with Rift, research and …
Read More »Facebook launches parents portal to help folks navigate their kids’ social experience
Facebook, the social networking app used by 1.8 billion people globally, does not provide figures for how much of that audience is comprised of minors — that is, people under the age of 18 (and theoretically over the age of 13). But chances are that these days it’s a significant number, when you consider …
Read More »Facebook’s advice to students interested in artificial intelligence
Math. Math. Oh and perhaps some more math. That’s the gist of the advice to students interested in AI from Facebook’s Yann LeCun and Joaquin Quiñonero Candela?? who run the company’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and Applied Machine Learning group respectively. Tech companies often advocate STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), but today’s tips are particularly …
Read More »Reports of a Facebook fake news detector are apparently a plugin
Update: The feature appears to be an implementation of the Chrome plugin B.S. Detector, which some users took as a test by Facebook itself. We’ll continue to investigate but for now it looks like this is not a Facebook feature. Yes, the irony is rich. Facebook is showing red warning …
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