Slashdot.org Stories for 2022

Metaverse Off To Ominous Start After VR Headset Sales Shrank In 2022 133
Meta Halts Construction of Two Data Centers In Denmark 10
Meta's Behavioral Ads Will Finally Face GDPR Privacy Reckoning In January 8
Meta Threatens To Pull News From Facebook If Congress Passes Media Bill 161
Zuckerberg Says Apple's Policies Not 'Sustainable' 124
Meta Researchers Create AI That Masters Diplomacy, Tricking Human Players 34
Facebook To Remove Several Information Fields From Profiles, Including Religious and Political Views 55
Meta Is Exiting Portal Smart Display Business, Winding Down Work On Smartwatch Projects 15
Meta's AI-Powered Audio Codec Promises 10x Compression Over MP3 98
Meta's Profit Slides by More Than 50 Percent as Challenges Mount 84
'I Tried the $1,500 Quest Pro and Saw the Best of the Metaverse' 54
Meta's New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads 53
Microsoft Partners With Meta To Bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox To VR 87
Meta To Increase Ad Load On Instagram 56
Meta Ordered To Pay $175 Million For Copying Green Beret Veteran's App 36
Meta Sued For Skirting Apple Privacy Rules To Snoop On Users 36
Mark Zuckerberg's $71 Billion Wealth Wipeout Puts Focus On Meta's Woes 83
Quest VR Owners Have New Meta Logins To Use Instead of Facebook 33
Meta Injecting Code Into Websites Visited By Its Users To Track Them, Research Says 49
Meta's Flailing Portal Repurposed As a Wireless Portable Monitor 15
Meta Puts Its Latest AI Chatbot On the Web 33
What 21 Billion Facebook Friendships Say About the Economic Ladder In the US 53
Meta's Revenue Shrank For the First Time In Its History 48
Zuckerberg Says Meta and Apple Are In 'Very Deep, Philosophical Competition' To Build the Metaverse 132
Meta Is Suing Meta For Naming Itself Meta 98
IDC: 'All Eyes Will Be On Apple' As Meta's VR Strategy 'Isn't Sustainable' 78
Meta Sparks Anger By Charging For VR Apps 32
Meta Will Stop Making Portal For Consumers 45
Apparent Schematics For Meta's Project Cambria Headset Leak 32
WhatsApp Launches Cloud API To All Businesses Worldwide 7
Facebook Is Shutting Down Its Podcast Service 12
Facebook Doesn't Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes 59
Meta Opens First Store To Sell Quests, Portals, and Glasses 20
Facebook's Fibre Optics in Nigerian State Put Africa Pivot in Focus 13
Meta Teases Web Version of Horizon Worlds 15
Meta is Racing To Release Its First AR Glasses in 2024 43
Meta Plans To Take Nearly 50% of Creator's Earnings In 'Horizon Worlds' 79
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests 32
Meta Says Its Metaverse Ambitions Won't Be Possible Without Better Cellular Networks 43
Meta's Social VR Platform Horizon Hits 300,000 Users 19
Meta Axes a Head of Global Community Development After He Appears On Video In Underage Sex Sting 60
JPMorgan Becomes First Bank To Open In Metaverse 54
Zuckerberg Coldly Explains To Facebook Staff They Are Now To Be Known As 'Metamates' 208
Nvidia Is Now Worth More Than Meta 60
Meta Introduces 'Personal Boundary' Feature To VR Worlds 90
How Apple's Privacy Push Cost Meta $10 Billion 78
Zuckerberg Tells Staff to Focus on Video Products as Meta's Stock Plunges 71
Microsoft May Scrap HoloLens 3 As Metaverse Hype Hits Fever Pitch 27
Messenger's End-To-End Encrypted Chats and Calls Are Available To Everyone 41
Meta's Ill-Fated Cryptocurrency May Be Close To Dissolving 39
Meta Unveils New AI Supercomputer 48
Meta Researchers Build an AI That Learns Equally Well From Visual, Written or Spoken Materials 22
Facebook and Instagram May Help You Create and Sell NFTs 23
Meta's Oculus Unit Faces FTC-Led Probe of Competition Practices 5
The FTC's Antitrust Suit Against Facebook Moves Forward 7
Meta Sued For Alleged Role In Extremist-Linked Murder of Federal Guard 34
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