Reactions to WhatsApp messages are about to be launched In a context where Facebook is rebranding itself as Meta, WhatsApp has added a new way for users not to get caught up in the conversation. As part of the company’s vision to unify the experience across all of its apps, Meta-owned WhatsApp could now allow users to reply to messages with emojis, like on Instagram and Facebook Messenger. We know that WhatsApp has been working to provide [...] Read more
Google makes commitments on the future of online advertising
Published on November 2021
Google makes commitments on the future of online advertising The American giant has made further concessions to the British antitrust. It wants to ensure that its competitors will not be harmed by the scheduled end of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser in 2023. Reassure, reassure again, reassure always. This has been the watchword since Google announced in early 2020 that it intended to delete third-party cookies from its Chrome browser - [...] Read more
Capitalism increased. Facebook throws us into the matrix
Published on November 2021
Capitalism increased. Facebook throws us into the matrix Caught in the turmoil, Mark Zuckerberg picks up the pace: he renamed Facebook Meta, and laid the foundations for the metaverse, "the future of the Net" according to him. A closed, 3D, immersive ecosystem that promises to isolate the user in virtual happiness and the firm from very real exponential profits. M like Meta. Or like Mark - we thought you had to be President of the French [...] Read more
Metaverse: Niantic wants it in augmented reality
Published on November 2021
Metaverse: Niantic wants it in augmented reality Technology: The publisher of Pokémon Go is raising 300 million to develop one of these virtual universes that have proliferated lately, in word at least. What if the real metaverse was on the Pokémon side? The publisher of Pokémon Go, Niantic, is raising 300 million to develop one of these virtual universes that have proliferated lately, in word at least. The company wants to create an [...] Read more