When Kris Jenner urges Khloé Kardashian to get back together with Tristan Thompson, Khloé turns the tables and presses Kris about cheating on Robert Kardashian.
When Kris Jenner urges Khloé Kardashian to get back together with Tristan Thompson, Khloé turns the tables and presses Kris about cheating on Robert Kardashian.
Emily Ratajkowski was recently spotted kissing actor Stephane Bak. Learn more about the singer and other hunks she’s romanced here.
Emily Ratajkowski was recently spotted kissing actor Stephane Bak. Learn more about the singer and other hunks she’s romanced here.
The ‘90210’ icon is reportedly look for a new upscale rental home after being forced to flee the last one.
The ‘90210’ icon is reportedly look for a new upscale rental home after being forced to flee the last one.
The TV personalities generated sparks when they first appeared on ‘Love Island USA’ Season 2 in 2020. Ahead of the ‘Love Island Games’ premiere on November 1, fans want to know if they’re still in love.
The TV personalities generated sparks when they first appeared on ‘Love Island USA’ Season 2 in 2020. Ahead of the ‘Love Island Games’ premiere on November 1, fans want to know if they’re still in love.
The actress asked her followers what color they liked best, in the caption for the eye-catching photo post.
The actress asked her followers what color they liked best, in the caption for the eye-catching photo post.
The ‘Girlfriends’ alum rocked some daring fashion pieces for her latest magazine cover shoot on October 25 and revealed where she got her love for chic clothing.
The ‘Girlfriends’ alum rocked some daring fashion pieces for her latest magazine cover shoot on October 25 and revealed where she got her love for chic clothing.
Meta’s increasingly aggressive push to promote Threads seems to be paying off. Mark Zuckerberg said the app currently has “just under” 100 million monthly active users, and that he thinks there’s a “good chance” the app could reach 1 billion users in the next couple of years.
“I thought for a long time, there should be a billion-person public conversations app that is a bit more positive and I think that if we keep at this for a few more years, then I think we have a good chance of achieving our vision there,” Zuckerberg said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call.
Threads’ growth has been closely watched since its July launch. The app saw 100 million sign-ups in its first week, but quickly saw engagement drop off amid complaints about limited functionality and feeds flooded with posts from brands. But Meta has steadily added new features, and engagement seems to have rebounded in recent weeks as Elon Musk makes unpopular changes to X, like stripping headlines from links. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Threads has recently succeeded in attracting former “power users” from X.
Threads’ growth wasn’t the only bright spot for Meta, which reported just over $34 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 23 percent increase from last year. There are no 3.9 billion people who use one of the company’s each month, a new high for the social media company. During a call with analysts, Zuckerberg said that Meta’s recent focus on “efficiency,” which resulted in the company shedding more than 20,000 jobs over the last year, has been an effective strategy that will continue as the company faces “a very volatile world.”
Zuckerberg also shared that Meta would be increasingly focused on generative AI going forward. “We’re going to continue deprioritizing a number of non-AI projects across the company to shift people towards working on AI instead,” Zuckerberg said.
Those AI investments, however, won’t come at the expense of new spending on the metaverse. Reality Labs, Meta’s division overseeing its AR and VR spending, continued its multibillion-dollar losing streak. Revenue from Reality Labs sank to just $210 million, with losses climbing to $3.7 billion for the quarter and more than $11 billion since the start of 2023. Meta CFO Susan Li said the losses were expected to accelerate further in the coming year due to “ongoing product development efforts in augmented reality/virtual reality and our investments to further scale our ecosystem.”
Zuckerberg, who has recently attempted to highlight AI advancements within AR and VR, said that the technology has the potential to reshape all of the company’s services. “Generative AI is going to transform meaningfully how people use each of the different apps that we build,” he said.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mark-zuckerberg-threads-has-just-under-100-million-monthly-active-users-222548501.html?src=rss
The actor talked about the audition process for the now iconic role and revealed it was between him and three other guys, in a new episode of his podcast.
The actor talked about the audition process for the now iconic role and revealed it was between him and three other guys, in a new episode of his podcast.
The Blink-182 musician gushed over playing the drums for his 20-year-old son’s band during an October 25 interview.
The Blink-182 musician gushed over playing the drums for his 20-year-old son’s band during an October 25 interview.
It’s finally happening: X (formerly known as Twitter) has begun rolling out yet another feature nobody asked for. Now, users will have the option to call each other via audio and video calls on the platform. This doesn’t come as a total surprise, as CEO Linda Yaccarino previously confirmed that video chat would be coming to the social media site back in August. It’s just the latest step in X’s evolution to becoming the “everything” app overlord owner Elon Musk wants it to be.
After opening X, some users are greeted with a prompt announcing “Audio and Video calls are here!” The prompt also included instructions on how to review who can call or make other changes to how the feature works. These options can be found in the settings section of your Direct Messages. If you have no interest in allowing people on X to call you, you can go to your DMs and look for the Settings menu, which looks like a tiny gear. From there, you can disable the calling option. However, if you do want to keep it on, you can choose to allow calls from verified users, people in your address book or just people you follow.
X doesn’t have the best track record of creating a safe space, especially for minority communities, so it’s not hard to see why many people would prefer to opt out of using this feature. Additionally, not everyone will receive the prompt about the new calling feature, which is enabled by default. It’s probably smart to see if it’s already available on your account then you decide whether you’d like to keep it on.
Perhaps the folks at X will rethink this one, and maybe we can trade this feature to save Circles. But if this is a feature that must exist, it would have been a better move to allow users to turn it on themselves, instead of having it on automatically. Some users may not find out about the feature until a random troll decides to call and antagonize them.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/x-is-rolling-out-audio-and-video-calling-feature-nobody-asked-for-205836943.html?src=rss
