Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg started Meta’s earnings call by talking about artificial intelligence. Then he moved onto the metaverse, touting his company’s headsets, glasses and operating system. He spent …
Last December, a factory in the Chinese province of Hebei called Donghua Jinlong posted a marketing video to TikTok showing aerial clips of its campus set to a jaunty tune. A caption proudly declared, in English, “Since 1979, Glycine comes from here.” Glycine is a niche industrial product, used as an additive in certain packaged …
Meta said the AI tool can be used on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.Image: Bloomberg (Getty Images) Meta wants to be a player in the AI space, but its efforts to do so have some users annoyed. Are we ready for Nvidia’s Blackwell chip? The tech giant said in a blog post on Thursday (Apr. …
A new meme has emerged urging people to look at their keyboard Published Apr 23, 2024, 11:02:08 GMT+1Last updated Apr 23, 2024, 11:06:56 GMT+1 The internet was a massive mistake and we should all be on it less. With that in mind, welcome to this particular corner of the internet to learn about the relentlessly …
A studio apartment that was once part of a police station has gone up for rent with a unique cell-ing point. The property, located Dudley in the West Midlands region of the U.K. is part of a development of 24 apartments of varying size which were created during the recent conversion of what was once …
Streetwear has grown from humble origins to become a prominent force in the worldwide fashion scene. The emergence of streetwear influencers has contributed to the mainstreaming of a once-niche look. Many street-style icons have captured the attention of the public, but the man in question is not a youngster. The 71-year-old social media star Alojz …
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) Stocks fizzle: Wall Street was enjoying …
“The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark,” James Salter wrote in his 1975 novel, “Light Years.” An encounter with a single “slender” line of writing, as he put it, can send a reader spinning off on a new trajectory; her life becomes divided into a before and an after …
A 26-year-old pig farmer in China has gone viral because she is educated and beautiful but has chosen an agricultural lifestyle for a monthly salary of 6,000 yuan (US$830). The woman, surnamed Zhou, from Yunnan province in southwestern China, holds a bachelor’s degree and was a literature major. She has worked on the farm for …
Palmer Luckey — the Oculus VR headset creator who was controversially fired from Facebook in 2017 after he donated $10,000 to a pro-Donald Trump group — has called on Meta “to make everything public” about the still-murky circumstances behind his exit. Facebook has repeatedly denied that Luckey, who sold Oculus to Meta for $2 billion …