Learn more Meta Portal, formerly called Facebook Portal, is an Alexa-enabled smart device used to video chat with friends and family. The Portal is like a dedicated video phone with futuristic flare.

Facebook is courting major media companies including Netflix, Disney, and Amazon to let it put their streaming services on its upcoming video-chat device, The Information reports. The new device ...

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It's not the easiest of jobs. Facebook is launching its Portal video chat devices off the back of two data breach scandals, the most recent of which still has many unanswered questions.

Recently Facebook found itself in yet another privacy ... Messenger and - as we learned this week - the firm's Portal video chat devices. Facebook "paused" the practice. But now the team behind ...