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Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens, onto Facebook and Instagram — despite the risks. Boland’s testimony came a day after Meta …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Another major consumer brand has joined the growing list of companies hit by serious data breaches. Panera Bread has confirmed a cybersecurity incident after the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed it stole millions of customer records. The breach exposes a wide range of …

The new approach sets Meta up to better compete with platforms like Roblox and Fortnite, which also offer user-generated experiences that can be played on your phone. Horizon Worlds originally launched for VR, but “to truly change the game and tap into a much larger market, we’re going all-in on …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you have ever searched for a home online, you know the routine. Set a price range. Click a few filters. Run the search. Start over. Again and again. Now imagine skipping all of that and simply saying, “I want a home …

Last summer, Bria Sullivan was getting ready to launch her app, an adorable companion called Focus Friend meant to help people manage their screen time. Her outlandish dream was to get 100,000 downloads. She’d been building the app with Hank Green, a creator with a huge audience, so she thought …

Phison is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices — and CEO Pua Khein-Seng has now become a leading voice for just how bad the RAM shortage might get. Companies may need to cut back their product lines in the second half …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered a downtown Los Angeles courthouse in largely the same way as all the attorneys, reporters, and advocates who’d come to watch his landmark trial testimony, but with one notable difference: he was flanked by an entourage that appeared to be wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If your social media feed feels noisier, stranger or more manipulated than it used to, you’re not alone. The internet runs on its own language now, and those buzzwords quietly shape what you see, what you don’t see and how companies target …

The Swedish automaker, which is owned by China’s Geely, said it will start delivering its Polestar 5 grand tourer to customers this summer, followed by a new long-roof variant of its Polestar 4 in the fourth quarter. In early 2027, a “new successor” to the Polestar 2 will go into …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tax season no longer begins in April. For scammers, it starts the moment the calendar flips to January.  While you’re waiting for your W-2 or 1099 to arrive, cybercriminals are already sending out waves of fake IRS messages, “refund problem” alerts and …