Month: December 2021
Meta adds Quest 2, Portal, and Ray-Ban Stories to its bug bounty program
Facebook parent company Meta is updating its bug bounty program to add hardware products from its metaverse division Reality Labs, including its Quest 2, Portal, and Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses, the company announced Friday. The work will play an important role in its “journey to help build the metaverse,” according…
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Microsoft Teams update will let you flirt with the forbidden fruit
Audio player loading… Microsoft is preparing an update for collaboration platform Teams that will help people make use of the full breadth of available features. As per a new entry in the company’s product roadmap, Microsoft Teams will soon give users a way to petition admins for access to blocked…
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Redditors are spamming Kellogg’s job portal to support striking workers
Reddit’s r/antiwork is typically filled with horror stories that make you want to quit not just your own job but strangers’ jobs, too. “My boss suggested I might not be able to take forty minutes to see my daughters [sic] first ever school play, so I told him try not…
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How a VR startup took the money and ran to the metaverse
The tech buzzword of the season is “metaverse.” Facebook kicked the craze into high gear at its Connect conference in late October, featuring an hour-long image-rehabilitation video where Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company’s new name, Meta, and showed off a vague digital-first future called the metaverse. Dedric Reid has been…
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Apple’s second-gen AirPods drop to $100, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals
If you're still on the hunt for good tech gifts to give this year, you still have time to grab some that will arrive before the holidays. Apple's second-generation AirPods are on sale again for $100, while the Fitbit Charge 5 fitness tracker is back down to $130. Both Amazon's…
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How to watch Muppet Christmas Carol online: stream the full movie on Disney Plus
Audio player loading… Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella basically invented Christmas. But, of the dozens of screen adaptations, few of them were known for being much fun before Brian Henson reimagined A Christmas Carol with his beloved band of muppets – Miss Piggy, Kermit, Fozzie and co. – and made a…
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