It’s been two years since Mark Zuckerberg madea bold statement in 2019about wanting to integrate all of Facebook, er, Meta’s messaging platforms — Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — with end-to-end encryption protection. But the journey has already taken a long time, and it might not be complete for another two years. Over the weekend, Antigone Davis, Meta’s global director of safety, saidthe company is taking its timeto “get this right and we don’t plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all our messaging services until sometime in 2023....

Meta — the surveillance firm formerly known as Facebook — wants everyone to know that it’s being more responsible“this time round.” The Silicon Valley behemoth on Tuesday revealed the latest aspect of its reformed character. The company pledged to eliminate ad-targeting related to ‘sensitive’ topics, such as race,health, political belief, or sexual orientation. The new policy will take effect from January 19th and cover all of Meta’s apps. We are removing ad targeting options that relate to topics people may perceive as sensitive....

The app is now available for free, but with a few caveats. You must be at least 18 years old and located in the US or Canada. Plus, you need the Oculus Quest 2, as the game won’t be supported on the Quest 1 after January 13, 2022. Last August, Meta launched Horizon Worlds asan invite-only betato let early adopters experience the virtual space, and even build new things with tools provided by the company....

Facebook hasrebranded itself to Meta, and is fully committed to building a metaverse. To achieve its grand vision, it’ll need to launch multiple groundbreaking devices, controllers, and supporting hardware. The company has already shown off some concepts and research projects in this area, and some of them are fascinating. Here’s a list of what we’ve seen so far: Haptic gloves In its series of prototype devices, gloves with haptic feedback for VR....

Working in astartup, regardless of your position, requires close attention to data — there’s just no way around it. So if I could give you just one piece of advice, it would be to learn how toeffectivelyanalyze these numbers and metrics. I’ve been working at Orcas for the past four and a half years. Orcas is an Education Technology platform that gives tutors access to lesson plans and provides students with free assessments....