August 2021

Facebook unveils virtual office app Horizon Workrooms

Facebook unveils virtual office app Horizon Workrooms

This week, Facebook invited journalists into its vision of the future office. Instead of attending in person or dialling in via Zoom, reporters donned headsets and used digital avatars of themselves to attend the company’s first media event exclusively in virtual reality. The gimmick marked the launch of Horizon Workrooms, a new free Facebook app

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The new Call of Duty trailer omits Activision

The new Call of Duty trailer omits Activision

The debut trailer for the new Call of Duty game seemingly distances itself from publisher Activision, amid ongoing allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination at the company. Call of Duty: Vanguard premiered on Thursday with a three-minute trailer. Curiously, the video opens with “Call of Duty presents” instead of ‘Activision presents’, which is then followed

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Apple says its CSAM scan code can be verified by researchers. Corellium starts throwing out dollar bills

Apple says its CSAM scan code can be verified by researchers. Corellium starts throwing out dollar bills

Last week, Apple essentially invited security researchers to probe its forthcoming technology that’s supposed to help thwart the spread of known child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In an attempt to clear up what it characterized as misunderstandings about its controversial plan to analyze iCloud-bound photos for this awful material, the Cupertino giant described [PDF] the

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