This Week in Apps: Facebook Reels goes global, Trump’s own social app arrives, all eyes on TikTok

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer

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Meta Visually Unifies Avatars Across Quest, Facebook & Instagram in Metaverse Push

Meta released its new Quest avatar system last year, bringing a big upgrade over the previous in terms of expressiveness and customizability. Now the company announced it’s standardizing those across all Meta platforms—Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram—essentially letting users build

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This Week in Apps: Open App Markets Act, Facebook loses daily users, Snap turns a profit

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer

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These smart glasses offer a glimpse at the future Apple and Facebook are planning

Avegant, a start-up in San Mateo, California, has built an LED light-engine that could enable device manufacturers to build small, stylish augmented-reality smart glasses. Courtesy of Avegant I recently tried a pair of prototype smart glasses from Avegant that gave

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Capitol cop Michael Riley resigns weeks after arrest on charges of cover-up of Jan. 6 riot Facebook messages

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Michael Riley poses for a picture outside of headquarters on D St., NE. Riley was selected Officer of the Month for February 2011 by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call,

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‘SNL’s’ ‘Frances Haugen’ Shows Up Congress As Possibly Even Worse Than Facebook

In “Saturday Night Live’s” cold open version of the congressional hearing earlier in the week on Facebook — featuring whistleblower Frances Haugen (Heidi Gardner) — it was hard to tell who was worse: Facebook or the lawmakers. Cecily Strong’s Nancy

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Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR

Just as Facebook’s Antigone Davis was live on CNBC defending the company over a whistleblower’s accusations and its handling of research data suggesting Instagram is harmful to teens, the company’s entire network of services suddenly went offline. On Twitter, Facebook communications exec Andy Stone says,

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Facebook whistleblower reveals herself, claims company prioritizes its individual interests

Frances Haguen, the whisteblower who leaked internal Facebook files to the Wall Avenue Journal. 60 Minutes The human being who exposed interior Fb investigate to the Wall Road Journal that served as the basis for a series of tales about

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