A car passes Facebook's new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook parent Meta unveiled a high-end virtual reality headset Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2022, with the hope that people will soon be using it to work and play in...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Have you ever been accused (or accused someone else) of wasting too much time by looking at a cellphone? Turns out, that time might not be wasted time at all. According to research recently published by Kaveh Abhari of San Diego State University and Isaac Vaghefi...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain One of Europe's largest airlines is saying "auf wiedersehen" to Apple AirTags on checked luggage. Lufthansa, Germany's main airline, tweeted Saturday that the company is banning "activated AirTags" from luggage because the devices "are classified as dangerous and need to be turned off" during flights. Apple's...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A considerable percentage of new apps in the Google App store are removed for violating the store's guidelines. This is inconvenient for the users of these apps, who may lose their in-app data. Computer scientists from the University of Groningen have devised two machine learning models...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amazon is shuttering more projects, with a digital travel experience and a high-performance robotic system the most recent to get the ax. That comes after announcements this month that Amazon will stop testing delivery robots, end production of a video device for kids and pause hiring...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Post-it Notes are getting a hybrid-work upgrade with a Microsoft Teams app that lets users digitize handwritten notes by holding them in front of the camera. Maplewood, Minnesota-based 3M is partnering with Microsoft to bring a Post-it app into the virtual meeting platform, which was used...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Meta Platforms Inc. urged a judge to reject the U.S. Federal Trade Commission attempt to block the company's acquisition of virtual reality app Within Unlimited, saying the agency's claims about competition in the area are based on "pure speculation." Meta argued the FTC hasn't laid out...

Long a polarizing figure, Kanye West -- now known as Ye -- has sparked controversy recently that has alienated fans and business partners alike with anti-Semitic comments and white supremacist messaging. Social network Parler announced Monday a deal for Kanye West to buy the platform popular with US conservatives, just...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When Facebook reinvented itself into Meta in October 2021, it was widely reported that Meta would be focusing on virtual reality (VR) by being at the forefront of the metaverse. But Meta has not given up on the world of bricks and mortar yet, as reflected...