After a huge early buzz, Snapchat’s wearables ultimately bellyflopped.
The company says it lost $40 million on the device.
But that failure wasn’t enough to dissuade the company from giving things another go — and from the sound of it, the second version of Spectacles find the company taking hardware a bit more seriously this time around.
The head-mounted devices took a step closer to reality this week, hitting the FCC in a filing first noted by Variety.
The paperwork outlines a “wearable video camera” called “Spectacles…Model 002.”
Last June, we noted that a small Snap team has been working covertly on a new version of the device that could potentially embrace the company’s love of augmented reality, a fact seemingly bolstered by a whole slew of patent applications (insofar as a patent application can be taken as confirmation of intent).
The White House wants the U.S. government to have a much bigger say on what you see on social media.
A new draft executive order from the White House would put the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in charge of deciding what sites like Twitter and Facebook can remove from their sites, reports CNN, which obtained a copy of a summary of the order.
President Donald Trump and other conservative leaders have long said that conservative content is censored on major social media networks — even though the data shows otherwise.
This order, called “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship,” appears aimed at making it so that conservative content could better thrive on those sites, regardless of whether it breaks the rules.
The order could help conspiracy theories, misinformation, and even deepfakes thrive even more on social media, if they’re considered political conversation.
The proposed order calls for the FCC to create new regulations on how and when the law will protect social media websites, specifically when those sites decide to remove or suppress content on their platforms.
Apple iPhone 5G: The California-based colossal Apple is intending to bring its own 5G modem in iPhones by the year 2022.
The giant is pushing hard to meet a very aggressive timeline given all the development, testing, and certification work involved, a source with knowledge of the company’s plans said.
A recent report from Fast Company indicates that Apple is supposed to launch its first Apple iPhone 5G modem by September 2020 carrying a Qualcomm chip inside.
To grab control over its 5G technology in the short-run, Apple bought Intel’s modem business at the beginning of this year for developing another piece of its hardware in-house without being reliant on partners.
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Although, the legitimate war between the two giants settled in April at an unexposed amount.