Meet Facebook’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses

This week in Hard Refresh: Social we review AI coding, Twitter updates, Blue Clues Steve, & more!

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FACEBOOK

• Facebook, along with other platforms like Twitter and YouTube, plans on fighting Texas’s new social media “censorship” law.

SNAPCHAT

• Snapchat added a new birthday reminder within the app in hopes of boosting engagement amongst users.

TWITTER

• Will the good bots please identify themselves? Twitter is allowing the “good bots” (whoever they are) to mark themselves with a new label.
• Twitter also announced this week a test of emoji-like reactions on tweets, rolling out very limited initial testing.
• The platform is also testing Communities, topic-based groups within the app, potentially redefining how users interact on the app.

AR, VR, & AI

• What happens when Facebook crosses with Ray-Bans? New smart glasses that will put Google to shame.
• Artificial intelligence can now write its own code with a new technology called Codex. But apparently coders shouldn’t be worried…

NOTEWORTHY

• YouTube expanded access to Community posting this week, lowering the follower minimum.
• TikTok has officially surpassed YouTube in average watch time, according to a new report (as far as Android users go).

VIRAL CONTENT

• This one goes out to all my fellow millennials. Steve from Blue Clues returned this week in a viral video to give us all closure for abruptly leaving the show when we were kids. This tweet is the only appropriate reaction. Along with the memes.

Happy Friday!

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