The proliferation of AI data centers plugging into the national power grid has helped drive up consumer electricity prices, raising the average national price of electricity by more than 6% in the past year. That’s not a good look for incumbents ahead of this fall’s election, and President Donald Trump addressed the challenge in his … Read more
During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs by claiming he had negotiated a “rate-payer protection commitment” with big tech companies that would allow them to build or pay for new power generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, … Read more
Threads already has over 400 million monthly users, but Meta wants to push that number even higher. With the launch of a new Threads feature this week, the company is making it easier for Threads users to share in-app posts to their Instagram Stories — a move that could take advantage of Instagram’s larger user … Read more
On Thursday, Meta announced a major update to its immersive virtual world Horizon Worlds that will leave the meta versions behind. The tech giant said it is focusing on making Horizon Worlds “almost exclusively mobile” and that it is “explicitly separating” its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. Meta’s VR and smartglasses division Reality … Read more
Whenever I write about Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, I already know the comments I’ll get. Great hardware, but hard to pass on anything the Meta does; will wait for someone else to come. It’s hard to imagine that feeling changing soon after The New York Times stated that Meta considered launching the facial recognition software … Read more
Brian Boland spent over a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. He told a California jury on Thursday that he was fueling the draw of more users, including teenagers, to Facebook and Instagram — despite the risks. Boland’s testimony came a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took … Read more
The new approach sets Meta up to better compete with platforms like Roblox and Fortnitewhich also offers user-generated experiences that can be played on your phone. Horizon Worlds was originally launched for VR, but “to really change the game and tap into a much bigger market, we’re going full mobile.” “With our unique ability to … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in court on Wednesday in a landmark trial to determine whether the tech giant’s social networking apps are addictive and harmful to teens and children. The trial, held in LA Superior Court, had already revealed that Meta’s own research showed that parental supervision could not prevent teens from compulsively using … Read more
Meta is set to release its first smartwatch with health tracking and built-in Meta AI this year Information. The smartwatch, which would directly compete with the Apple Watch and other brands, is the result of a revived project that Meta canceled in 2022 due to broader spending cuts at its Reality Labs hardware division. The … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered the courthouse in downtown Los Angeles in much the same way as all the lawyers, reporters and advocates who had come to watch him testify in the landmark trial, but with one notable difference: He was accompanied by an entourage who appeared to be wearing Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. To … Read more