Does Meta's VR Turing Test ambition make sense?
Meta's VR Turing Test intrigues Seamus on the latest episode of the Byteside podcast, while Nic is puzzled by a pop-up Metaverse shop.

Of course you've been waiting for Facebook ads inside your VR, right?
Engagement vampire Facebook is ready to thrust floating ad units into your enraptured eyeballs inside the solitude of virtual reality.

One set of rules to rule them all
Twitter gives Australia the Blues, COVIDSafe doesn't give anything, plus Facebook, hot sauce, Hearthstone, Valorant and more.

Facebook might finally stop treating politicians as 'more equal than others'
After recent Oversight Board questions, Facebook might be about to stop letting politicans say whatever they like.

Bond meets Bezos
Amazon buys MGM, CommBank to show you ALL your accounts, USB wants more power, and Facebook still sucks. Plus Nokia, HyperX, Razer and more.

Enhance and augment
In the latest Byteside podcast we talk imaging technologies and interfaces, from Adobe's latest enhancement tech to AR and VR interfaces.

Facebook's temporary news ban still impacting Aussie media consumption
Australians' time spent on news websites dropped by as much as 22% during Facebook's news ban in February. It still hasn't recovered.

Bargaining Code amendments give Facebook all it wanted and then some
We handed Facebook fewer rules and no mandatory code while giving it an excuse to gain data on what a Facebook without news looks like.
