Meta, Microsoft and Google Aren’t Operating Like Monopolies At All
Looking back in time, thank goodness Amazon invented online shopping, and thank goodness Google became a verb borne of its discovery of search as a fundamental aspect of the internet. Information is wealth,
You can finally use passkeys to sign into your Microsoft account
Microsoft is celebrating World Password Day (IT folks deserve holidays, too!) by helping to kill them. The company has finally rolled out consumer passkey support for Microsoft accounts, nearly two years after Apple and Google.
Microsoft, Google do a victory lap around passkeys
Windows giant extends passwordless tech to everyone else Microsoft today said it will now let us common folk — not just commercial subscribers — sign into their Microsoft accounts and apps using passkeys with their face,
Google's passkeys have already been used more than 1 billion times
Passkeys are replacing passwords on major sites like eBay and Uber, providing faster and more secure authentication. Google has facilitated over one billion passkey-based authentications and is expanding partnerships for Cross-Account Protection.
Microsoft's AI investment triggered by Google progress, show
Microsoft’s OpenAI investment may have been prompted by concerns over Google’s artificial intelligence progress, according to a new report. The tech giant invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 because it was reportedly "very worried" that Google was speeding ahead in the global AI race.
Meta Platforms Inc. stock rises Thursday, still underperforms market
Shares of Meta Platforms Inc. inched 0.57% higher to $441.68 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading ...
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Researcher Sues Meta for the Right to 'Turn Off' Facebook's News Feed
Ethan Zuckerman's Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension lets people erase all their follows and start from scratch, but Meta has ...
Meta is building an $800 million data center in Montgomery
Meta’s new 715,000-square-foot, AI-optimized data center will be built off Interstate 65 in Montgomery, across from the ...
Lawsuit against Meta asks if Facebook users have right to control their feeds using external tools
Do social media users have the right to control what they see — or don’t see — on their feeds? A lawsuit filed against ...
AMZN vs. META: Which Magnificent Seven Stock Is Better?
In this piece, I evaluated two of the Magnificent Seven stocks, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), using TipRanks’ Comparison Tool below to see which is better. A closer look ...
Ads on Facebook, Instagram for explicit 'AI girlfriends' prompt Meta crackdown
Meta is scrubbing ads for "AI girlfriend" chatbots from its platforms after tens of thousands of explicit ads for the apps ...
Fact-Checking Fun: The Media Landscape Amid Potential Meta News Withdrawal
As the media landscape braces for potential changes amid Meta’s withdrawal from news distribution, concerns about ...
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Meta’s AI assistant is fun to use, but it can’t be trusted
Unlike other chatbots and image generators, Meta’s A.I. assistant is a free tool baked into apps that billions of people use every day, making it the most aggressive push yet from a big tech company ...
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Amazon Just Dropped the Meta Quest 2 VR Gaming Headset to $176.50
Amazon currently has the best deal on a Meta Quest 2 VR headset. You can get the 128GB model right now with an Active Pack ...
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Meta building $800 million Montgomery data center, creating 100 jobs
Tech conglomerate Meta will build an $800 million, 715,000-square-foot data center in Montgomery, creating 100 jobs. The ...
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A researcher is suing Meta for the right to ‘turn off’ Facebook’s news feed
Facebook’s News Feed algorithm has long been at the center of debates about some of Meta’s biggest problems. It’s also ...
Meta Platforms Gets a Rare Sell Rating. AI Is Expensive.
BNP Paribas analyst Stefan Slowinksi’s stock-price target implies a loss of 18% from Wednesday’s closing price.