Basically, it’s just a better smart home device than the company’s Echo Show smart display, but there’s more to it. The Verge’s Jen Tuohy gives you the rundown. Be sure to check out her full review for more detail.
Meta announced Cryptic Cabinet on Thursday. The “open-source mixed reality showcase” serves as a reference app for developers who want to use its source code to make mixed reality games for the Quest headsets.
But it’s also a standalone game that generates furniture and other escape room puzzle elements in players’ environments. It’s available on the App Lab.
Cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs reshared this post showing Kivimäki has been arrested in Helsinki after disappearing when a Finnish appeals court overturned his release from prison.
Kivimäki was initially arrested in France last year for allegedly hacking the Vastaamo online therapy center and leaking patient info online.
Alessandro Paluzzi, who discovers a lot of Instagram features before they’re announced, posted an update on something he’d spotted in the app months ago: the ability to see where your friends are on a map. Snap’s Snap Map is similar, as are features built into Android and iOS.
According to the images Paluzzi posted, Friend Map would be opt-in, and location data end-to-end encrypted.
Before the Dynamic Island, one of the company’s concepts may have involved a temporary notch growing out of the side of the phone, similar to a mock-up MacRumors made based on information it had seen.
What do you think? Would this have been interesting or terrible?
A student at the University of Waterloo in Canada asked that in a post showing a vending machine error message that revealed a facial recognition app had failed.
Student publication mathNEWS found that the machine’s maker, Invenda, advertises that it gathers “estimated ages and genders of every client.” But don’t worry, Invenda told Ars Technica the machines are “fully GDPR compliant.”
The school is reportedly removing the machines.
Meta is only rolling out the test to its Facebook iOS app, and not in the EU, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. Threads posts already show up on Facebook, provided you don’t opt out.
TechCrunch writes that when user whimchic tried the feature in the Facebook iOS app, the post went to both platforms, but without any indication on Threads that it was a cross-post.
