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Meta’s Muse Wants Your Inbox, Your Calendar, and a Card on File
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Software, Artificial Intelligence,
To use Meta's new AI agent the way Meta wants you to use it, you have to hand over your inbox, your calendar, your smart home accounts, and a working payment card. Muse, which started rolling out in the US this week, is built to go do things rather than answer questions, and doing things requires the keys.
So it opens a browser and fills in forms. It sends email on your behalf, books travel and negotiates your bills, and it keeps working after you close the app, remembering your preferences and volunteering suggestions you never asked for. Meta's own examples run from turning saved Instagram recipe reels into a grocery list to organizing a dinner, down to tracking who at the table can't eat what. It's live in the US on iOS, Android and muse.ai, with the AI glasses "coming soon."
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Meta’s Screenless Ray-Bans Now Do Turn-by-Turn Walking Directions
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Artificial Intelligence,
You know the corner. Unfamiliar city, phone in your hand, thumb hovering over a map, and you still walk half a block the wrong way before the blue arrow catches up with you. Meta's smart glasses have been sitting on your face this whole time doing nothing about it. Firmware v128 changes that, and it does it on the pair without a screen.
The update adds turn-by-turn walking directions you launch with your voice. Say "Hey Meta, navigate to Times Square" and the turns come through the open-ear speakers. Until now you couldn't start navigation from the glasses at all. You started a route in a third-party app on your phone and let the audio ride over Bluetooth, or you asked Siri or Google Assistant to do it for you. Both work. Neither keeps the phone in your pocket, which is most of the reason to wear the things.
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Instagram and Facebook Are About to Lock Teens Out at Midnight
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Internet,
A 15-year-old in most of the United States will soon get two hours a day on Instagram and Facebook, and then the apps stop. At midnight they lock until 6 a.m. During school hours, notifications go quiet. And the teen can't switch any of it off without a parent signing off first.
That's the product side of the settlement Meta announced Wednesday with a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general, ending a federal trial in Oakland over claims that Facebook and Instagram were designed to keep kids hooked. The payment runs to roughly $16.7 billion. The defaults are what will change how the apps feel.
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Soon You Can Buy an Instagram Verification Badge with Meta Verified
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Internet,
Meta has announced a new subscription service called Meta Verified, and it's causing a stir across social media. This feature is designed to increase authenticity and security on both Facebook and Instagram. Many are likening it to Twitter Blue, however, you get way more from Meta Verified, including actual "verification."
For $12 per month (or $15 per month if you subscribe through the App Store), users will get blue verification badges on their Facebook and Instagram account, additional impersonation protection, direct access to customer support, and 100 free stars to tip creators on Facebook. Meta Verified subscribers will also get access to exclusive stickers for Reels and Stories.
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Is Oculus Go the future of VR? Plus: T-Mobile, Sprint and Trump - Geared Up!
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Corporate News, Features, Home Entertainment, Video Games, Videos,
Oculus Go, a new VR headset from the Facebook-owned company, sprang onto shelves in a surprise launch Tuesday. It's lower-powered than existing headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, but is portable and costs just $199. Is it the future of virtual reality? We debate on this episode of Geared Up.
Plus, T-Mobile and Sprint are finally tieing the knot with a huge merger. It will give the combined company (still called T-Mobile) a shot at competing with Verizon and AT&T as long as they can convince the Trump Administration to let the deal go through.
And in more huge news, Apple reported record-breaking iPhone sales in the first months of 2018, squashing rumors that the iPhone 10 has been struggling. Hear all that and more on this weekís episode of Geared Up, hosted by GeekWire Editor Todd Bishop and Gear Live's Andru Edwards. Watch the behind-the-scenes video above, listen in the player below, or subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast app.
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Getting ready for Seattle Mind Camp 10: The Practical Guide
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Tips, Upcoming,
Seattle Mind Camp 10 is one week away! For those of you who aren’t sure what to expect, this guide will hopefully give you a bit of an orientation. Even you Mind Camp veterans might want to look over the details, here, as a few things have changed this time around:
I don't have a ticket yet, where do I register?
Seattle Mind Camp is full, however, we do have a wait list that has been getting tickets released to it. To join, head to the Mind Camp 10 registration page!
When should I arrive?
The doors will open at 11:00am on Saturday, June 6, at which time lunch will be served for all of our attendees, provided by Facebook. Opening remarks and introductions will start promptly at 12:00pm, so please arrive in time to check in, mingle, check out the session candidates along the walls. Note that if you’re hoping to present a session, you should arrive on time to post your Session Organizer Candidate Form.
How do I get there?
Mind Camp 10 will be held at Facebook Seattle, located in downtown Seattle. The address is 1730 Minor Ave, Seattle, WA 98101. We'll be checking the guest list at the door, and only those who registered will be granted access!
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What to bring to Seattle Mind Camp? All the things!
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Tips, Upcoming,
Mind Camp is all about participation and networking - checking out what cool projects people are working on, and getting a chance to show off your own work, or to discuss your crazy off-the-wall ideas. We want to encourage everyone, therefore, to bring stuff.
If you have a cool gadget you want to show off, bring it. If you love photography, bring your camera. Videography? Bring your video cameras and drones.
If you’ve a website that you want to get some eyeballs on, bring your laptop.
If you have a favorite board game or card game, bring that.
Are you a gamer? Bring your Nintendo 3DS, or bring an Xbox One or Playstation 4 and we can set up a room for multiplayer gaming.
Even if it’s just a cool book or piece of video, or anything that might spark an interesting conversation, bring it with you. It's a 24-hour event, so if you think you'll wanna take a nap, bring a sleeping bag! We want everyone engaged and active and helping us out to make sure Mind Camp 10 blows the socks off of the last nine events
See you Saturday!
Getting ready for Seattle Mind Camp 10: The Philosophical Guide
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Tips, Upcoming,
This is an updated version of a post originally published on April 28, 2006. Seattle Mind Camp 10 takes place June 6-7 - get your tickets now!
Most of you who have previously attended Seattle Mind Camp understand the free-form nature of the beast. However, many of you will be joining us for the first time, and I wanted to try to prepare you for the kind of event you’re going to encounter. Mind Camp is not a traditional type of gathering, and the success of the event depends in large part on the willingness of the participants to wrestle the chaotic mess into order.
Seattle Mind Camp is an “unconference,” in the style of Bar Camp or Foo Camp. The idea of an unconference has been promulgated by Dave Winer, among others. As I understand it, Winer’s particular insight was that, for any conference panel discussion, you could take any random group of people out of the audience, replace the panel onstage with that random group, and have an equally enlightening and worthwhile session. The Mind Camp experience seeks to leverage that idea by completely doing away with a pre-planned program of speakers. The day’s sessions will be designed by the attendees and the schedule will be curated by Andru Edwards and his Mind Camp Counselors team.
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Seattle Mind Camp 10: June 6-7 at Facebook!
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Upcoming, Announcements,
Seattle Mind Camp is back! We’ve just scheduled Seattle Mind Camp 10 to take place over the weekend of June 6-7 at Facebook offices in Seattle, an incredible space in Seattle's downtown area. Oh, and yes, the event will most certainly run for 24 hours straight as usual. Tickets are on sale now, and we’ve already got a great group of people registered. Be sure to get your ticket, because we expect these to go fast!
Wondering what's so cool about Mind Camp? You may wanna check out our YouTube channel!
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10 great apps that are optimized for the iPhone 6 Retina HD display
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Games, News, Productivity, Social Networking, App Updates,
Apple is renowned for paying extreme attention to user experience, so when their new lines of phones featuring bigger screens came out in September, it was just a matter of time before apps started being optimized to take advantage of this change. The difference in resolution is quite notable, the iPhone 6 coming with a resolution of 750 by 1334 pixels and a 4.7 inches screen, and the iPhone 6 Plus boasting a resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels and a 5.5 inches screen, whereas the previous generation of iPhones (iPhone 5, 5C and 5S) came with a 4 inch display with a resolution of 640 by 1336 pixels. There are several apps that are already on the bandwagon with the new resolutions – here are the top 10 picks.
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