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  • The Facebook ‘Poke’ Is Back, But What Does it Mean?

    The Facebook ‘Poke’ Is Back, But What Does it Mean?

    What does it mean to “poke” someone on Facebook? Is it flirty, friendly, or even annoying? The answer is all of the above, and somehow, none at all. The ambiguous feature was largely invisible for many years, but now Facebook is reporting a 13x spike in poking in the last month. “THE POKE IS HAVING…


  • Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Now Have Thoughts About Your Pants

    Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Now Have Thoughts About Your Pants

    Meta’s long-promised AI-enabled vision features for the company’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses are finally incoming, allowing the onboard AI to see, hear, and interpret its environment through the glasses’ 12 MP camera and microphone. The company proclaimed late Tuesday that these new AI-vision features are now available in beta. There’s a whole lot of utility for…