Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta AI’s Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more  —  Meta AI’s Imagine features, which use generative AI to turn text prompts into images, are now being expanded across Facebook and Instagram … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels  —  Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, is getting a new voice mode of sorts.  —  At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Stein / CNET: Hands-on with Meta’s Orion: need a wireless processor puck, weigh only 100g, are packed with sensors, and have good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.”  —  I wore Mark Zuckerberg’s contact lenses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors  —  Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses, but can Mark Zuckerberg beat everyone else to the next big platform? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June  —  Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+  —  Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it’s a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta for Developers on Facebook: Livestream of Meta Connect 2024  —  Join Mark Zuckerberg as he shares Meta’s vision for AI and the metaverse, including Meta’s newest product announcements.  Then stay with us for the Developer Keynote, where you’ll hear from executives across Meta on how our latest technologies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / The Verge: A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company’s first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, and more are expected  —  Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Reddit rolls out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ other countries on the mobile web, its apps, and desktop  —  Reddit is bringing machine learning-powered translations to more than 35 new locales in Europe, Asia and Latin America … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: China-linked hackers have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive info, in a campaign investigators call Salt Typhoon  —  It is latest intrusion into core U.S. infrastructure by entities linked to China  —  Hackers linked to the Chinese government … Lees verder op Tech Meme