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  2. Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12] [13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]

  3. Metasearch engine - Wikipedia

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    Metasearch engine. A metasearch engine (or search aggregator) is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results. [1] [2] Metasearch engines take input from a user and immediately query search engines [3] for results. Sufficient data is gathered, ranked, and presented to the users.

  4. Metaverse - Wikipedia

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    Avatars socialising in the virtual world Second Life The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection. The term metaverse originated in the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash as a portmanteau of "meta" and "universe". In Snow Crash, the metaverse is envisioned as a ...

  5. List of mergers and acquisitions by Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly ...

  6. Metadata - Wikipedia

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    Definition. Metadata means "data about data". Metadata is defined as the data providing information about one or more aspects of the data; it is used to summarize basic information about data that can make tracking and working with specific data easier. [14] Some examples include: Means of creation of the data.

  7. Meta Quest 3 - Wikipedia

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    Meta Quest 3 is a virtual reality (VR) headset developed by Reality Labs, a division of Meta Platforms. It was unveiled on June 1, 2023, and released on October 10 as a successor to the Quest 2 . The headset features updated hardware with elements of the Quest Pro , including a thinner form factor and lenses, and additional sensors and color ...

  8. Reality Labs - Wikipedia

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    Reality Labs, originally Oculus VR, is a business and research unit of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, including virtual reality headsets such as Quest, and online platforms such as Horizon Worlds. In June 2022, several artificial intelligence (AI ...

  9. Timeline of Instagram - Wikipedia

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    Meta announces paid verification on Instagram through a subscription service called Meta Verified. It originally launched in Australia and New Zealand to test the feature. 2023 March Product Meta Verified is now available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. There is a waiting list for other countries. 2023 June Product