Meta’s smart glasses now have a dedicated charging stand
Meta’s smart glasses now have a dedicated charging stand

Meta launched a stand accessory that lets you display the company’s smart glasses on your desk or nightstand while they’re being recharged. The new Charging Stand is listed at $59 on Meta’s website – $30 less than the charging case for Meta’s non-Ray-Ban glasses – and resembles a metal tube with a groove you can […]

Meta launches its own smart glasses brand at $299, breaking from the Ray-Ban name
Meta launches its own smart glasses brand at $299, breaking from the Ray-Ban name

Meta has launched smart glasses under its own brand for the first time, pricing the Adventurer and Fury models at $299 each. The glasses match the hardware specifications of the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, which starts at $359, but ship without the Ray-Ban bra…

EU escalates its Meta probe over addictive design for kids
EU escalates its Meta probe over addictive design for kids

The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook and Instagram of exploitative design that hooks children. The Meta addictive design probe could end in a fine worth up to 6% of global sales. Brussels is about to turn up th…

Meta debuts new, cheaper smart glasses under its own brand

The smart glasses are available in several countries starting today in a variety of color and lens combinations.

Meta was sneakily tracking its employees, but soon shut it down after an internal leak

Meta halted its employee tracking program, which collected keystrokes, screen content, and mouse movements, after sensitive data was leaked internally.

Meta launches its own smart glasses and one of them is designed by Kylie Jenner

Celebrity partnerships are all the rage right now. Whoop has got Cristiano Ronaldo. Beats partnered with Kim Kardashian. Google inked a deal with NBA legend Steph Curry for the Fitbit Air. Now, Meta is jumping on the bandwagon. Earlier today, the compa…

Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban
Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban

For the past three years, “Meta” and “Ray-Ban” have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses – no Ray-Bans – in three different styles and seven colors. One style, I was told several times by various enthusiastic Meta spokespeople, is a collaboration with socialite […]

The race to make smart glasses look less awkward has begun, and I love what I see

An Italian startup called Lorika just launched Ontop, brightly colored clip-on covers that make your Ray-Ban Meta glasses pop.

Meta pauses its employee mouse-tracking program over data-security fears
Meta pauses its employee mouse-tracking program over data-security fears

The Model Capability Initiative, which logs mouse movements and keystrokes to train Meta’s AI, is on hold after sensitive staff data was left accessible to the whole company. Meta has paused a programme that watches its own employees work. On Monday 22…

Instagram lands on Samsung TVs, with episodic series and live TV coming to your screen soon

Meta is testing interest-based channels, phone-to-TV casting, and a horizontal video hub as Instagram for TV expands beyond Samsung’s launch.