Oculus Go VR
Oculus Go, a new afordable VR headset for $199 is announced. While not the highest end headset, there are notable improvements and a few breakthroughs: no PC, phone, or wires needed.
Category: The Impromptu
The Impromptu is a weekly podcast, hosted by Michael Norton and Alex Knight. It’s a multi-faceted show discussing how technology, art, design and equality converge on topics that matter most to us. From gaming culture to film, and other forms of media, we examine the creative process and how the decisions we make, shape our perceptions and lives.
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The Dark Bargain
After the Cambridge Analytica fiasco and mishandling of user data, Facebook gets into the online dating space, but will anyone use it and why would anyone care?
Apple Delays Cross-Platform “Marzipan” UI?
We dive deeper into the topic of “Marzipan,” the code-named cross-platform UI that supposedly would be announced at WWDC this June. It looks like it’s been delayed until 2019, or perhaps it just wasn’t ready?
Dark Patterns
Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you buy or sign up for things that you didn’t mean to. We explain why you should care and how it relates to Facebook.
A Mountain of Salt
We continue to unpack the results of the two-day congress hearing with Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, what this means for the future of consumer data, privacy, legislation, and beyond.