Is Facebook’s big AR push good news for the next iPhone?

Facebooks big augmented reality announcements at its F8 developer's conference in California are the clearest sign the next iPhone will have built-in AR hardware. It's true, Apple's interest in and affinity for augmented reality is...

Inside Facebook’s New Robotics Lab, Where AI and Machines Friend One Another

At first glance, Facebook’s nascent robotic platform looks a bit … chaotic. In a new lab in its palatial Silicon Valley HQ, a red and black Sawyer robot arm (from the recently defunct company...

I Want Your Job: Vashtie Kola, Designer And Director

When Vashtie Kola and I first met in 2011 at VIBE Magazine, she was the antithesis of asocial butterfly. At the time, the influencerwas a burgeoning director and stylish creative whose connections and...

Your Facebook Echo Chamber Just Got a Whole Lot Louder

Facebook tweaked the algorithm to its all-important News Feed again this morning. Granted, the company tinkers with its engine more often than a neurotic Nascarmechanic. But this adjustment is worth paying attention to, because...

Every time we take an Uber we’re spreading its social poison | Laurie Penny

CEO Travis Kalanicks treatment of one of his drivers shows Ubers institutional sleazebaggery, seeing social responsibility as an outdated piece of apparatusThere are very few things that $5bn cant buy, but one of them...

Lawmaker blasts Facebook’s new deepfakes policy as ‘wholly inadequate’

The chairwoman of the House Consumer Protection and Commerce subcommittee blasted Facebook on Wednesday for its recently announced policy surrounding deepfakes, calling it “wholly inadequate.” The social media giant announced the...