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In the pursuit of making Metaverse possible, Facebooks Reality Labs showcased a prototype of haptic gloves, which they designed for over seven years. These gloves are fitted with sensors and various new technologies, to let users feel the sensation of holding, touching, running objects in a virtual world. While theres a long way to go, [] The post Meta Unveiled a Haptic Glove Prototype That Could Sense Virtual Objects appeared first on TechDator .

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Facebook and Twitter have raised concerns that unclear definitions of what constitutes abhorrent violent material risks sweeping up posts exposing atrocities.

Messaging apps are everywhere over 3.1 billion people around the world use them, sending more than 140 billion messages every day. Their ubiquity, size, and the value they deliver to their users have often converted into stratospheric market valuations: Whatsapp was acquired for an unprecedented $19 billion in 2014, after being launched only 5 years earlier. At the time of acquisition, Facebook paid $42 per WhatsApp user. Telegram, launched in 2013 by Pavel Durov, has over 500 million users today and recently rejected an investment offer valuing it at $30 billion. Skype, one of the first VoIP services, was sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion in 2011. The growth of mobile messaging apps shows no signs of stopping: the number of mobile messaging app users is projected to increase by over 10% by 2025, an additional 300 million people. While the growth has been phenomenal, it has brought to light a series of previously unknown dangers to the privacy, finances, and personal safety of mobile phone users: Data Sharing Violations The EUs privacy watchdog fined WhatsApp 255 million for data processing and data sharing violations in September 2021.

Escobar: Xi''s New Communist Manifesto Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Leaders unshakeable ambition is that Chinas renaissance will smash memories of the century of humiliation once and for all Marx. Lenin. Mao. Deng. Xi. Late last week in Beijing, the sixth plenum of the Chinese Communist Party adopted a historic resolution only the third in its 100-year history detailing major accomplishments and laying out a vision for the future. Essentially, the resolution poses three questions. How did we get here? How come we were so successful? And what have we learned to make these successes long-lasting? The importance of this resolution should not be underestimated. It imprints a major geopolitical fact: China is back. Big time. And doing it their way. No amount of fear and loathing deployed by the declining hegemon will alter this path. The resolution will inevitably prompt quite a few misunderstandings. So allow me a little deconstruction, from the point of view of a gwailo who has lived between East and West for the past 27 years.

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The new look and name comes on the back of rise in criticism on the social media platforms failure to protect consumer data and sensitive content

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has shared its vision for the future of feeling sensations in VR.

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire : HaptX, haptic gloves developer for VR and robotics, says Meta''s prototype is substantively identical to its own tech, claims it demoed tech to Facebook execs Meta made a big announcement Tuesday about how it hopes to bring touch to the virtual world through the use

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The B.C.''s Human Rights Tribunal dismissed a complaint asserting Facebook had discriminated against a man on sexual orientation grounds, saying the jurisdiction sits with Ottawa.

The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP informs investors that the firm has filed a securities class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. f/k/a Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") (( FB ) on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired Facebook common stock between April 29, 2021, and October 21, 2021, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action, captioned Barry G. Depot v. Meta Platforms, Inc. f/k/a Facebook, Inc., et al. , Case No. 4:21-cv-08873 (the " Depot Action"), was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. There is another related class action case pending against Facebook in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. That first-filed action issued a notice of its filing pursuant to the federal securities laws which triggered the deadline of December 27, 2021 for Facebook investors to seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class. The filing of the Depot Action does not change the December 27, 2021 lead plaintiff deadline.