Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are "dangerous by design", the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation. A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual ...

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg should halt the company’s plan to release its fledgling Horizon Worlds metaverse app to teens ages 13 to 17, according to a letter to him sent ...

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To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

Democratic senators Ed Markey (D., Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) urged Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg to halt the release of its Horizon Worlds metaverse app to ...

Zuckerberg said the plan is to add AI image and video tools in Facebook and Instagram and use AI ‘agents’ as talking NPC avatars in metaverse apps. Reading time 3 minutes Meta’s latest quarterly ...

Two Senate Democrats sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday calling on him to halt the Facebook parent company’s plans to offer a metaverse app to teenagers. Sens. Ed Markey (Mass.) ...

Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting ...

Before generative AI shook everything up, the metaverse was the next big thing. Now, it's "AI and the metaverse." For those with short attention spans, a social media company named Facebook changed ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: The metaverse is still being developed. Investors though, they like ...