Meta is just playing catch-up as Roblox, Steam VR, VRChat, and other platforms have already developed metaverse-like experiences
In addition to announcing Facebook's rebranding to Meta on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a number of lofty promises about the metaverse and its features.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products
the Facebook company's new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we'll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. https://twitter.com/... Jack⚡️ / ...
Apple MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch review: incredible performance with very long battery life and beautiful displays but expensive with absurd RAM pricing
Apple's new pro laptops right the wrongs of the past half decade — Let's start simply: the new MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips …
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an aging userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage
it's about holding a mirror to our own broken, shared world. @Facebook's promised metaverse is about distracting us from the world it's helped break.”-@ethanz https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Joanna S...
Facebook's Meta renaming is a bet on the power of founder control, and is about a future that doesn't yet exist, but one that Zuckerberg believes needs to
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Meta acquires Within, the company behind VR fitness game Supernatural; Within will continue working on the game and help Meta improve future VR hardware
The company already owns Beat Saber — Meta has announced that the studio behind VR workout game Supernatural will be joining the company …
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
In a booth at Ted's Fish Fry, in Troy, New York, my friend Daniel Beck and I sketched out our plans for the metaverse. It was November 1994, just as the graphical web …
Apple's VP of Mac and iPad Product Marketing Tom Boger says Touch ID is more convenient than Face ID on a laptop since users' hands are already on the keyboard
Full-size ports, real function keys and other retro features, plus cutting-edge M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, make the new MacBook Pro models the laptops to beat
Roblox has been down since about 7PM ET Oct. 28, with some speculating that the outage may be related to a Chipotle promotion, but the company denies a link
Roblox is having some server issues — Roblox has been down for more than a day, with the game and its related website offline for millions of players.
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent. Source: U.S. Copyright Office and U.S. Copyright O...
Microsoft had a nearly $2.49T market cap at close on Friday, passing Apple's $2.46T market cap to become the world's most valuable public company
- Microsoft passed Apple in market cap on Friday, making it the world's most valuable public company. — The move comes after Apple …
Two employees who openly criticized Netflix's support of Dave Chappelle's comedy special file charges with the NLRB, claiming retaliation
B. Pagels-Minor and Terra Field say the company retaliated against them for engaging in protected activity — Two Netflix employees at the heart …
How the rhetoric surrounding techno-globalism has shifted, from countries advocating for a free, open internet to imposing limits to protect national interests
Two key words were missing from the statements that followed the inaugural in-person summit in September of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue … Tweets: @gwbstr , @carnage4life , @raquelinacj , @fore...
Analysis: Florida startups have raised about $1.3B in Series A and Series B funding so far in 2021, which is more than quadruple the $277M raised in all of 2020
The hype around South Florida as an up-and-coming startup hub isn't just hype. Seed- and early-stage investment …
Indian online beauty products retailer Purplle raises a $75M Series E led by Kedaara Capital at a $630M valuation
- Purplle reaches valuation of $630 million in new funding round — Local e-commerce rival Nykaa is raising funds in an IPO — Purplle, the Indian online beauty …
Apple misses with Q4 revenue of $83.4B, up 29% YoY, vs $84.85B est., iPhone revenue of $38.87B, up 47% YoY, services revenue of $18.3B, up 25.6%; stock down 3%+
its fastest year of growth since 2012. Net income for the year: $94.7bn. @parikpatelcfa : Microsoft has just overtaken Apple to become the largest company in the world by market cap. This makes sense ...
Sources: Zuckerberg agreed to a name change after years of staff complaints and research showing a “brand tax” on apps with the “from Facebook” label
Europol says it has detained 12 suspects for orchestrating ransomware attacks that hit 1,800+ victims across 71 countries since 2019
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record :
Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Chris Hughes, Clay Shirky, and others on how to reform social media platforms and limit their harm
including Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Sherry Turkle and Jaron Lanier—discuss how to deal with the problems posed by the biggest social-media sites https://www.wsj.com/... Kate Bevan / @kat...
Microsoft acquires Two Hat, a content moderation provider that has helped improve Xbox communities for the past few years
although CoMo service providers do have a habit of being acquired by giants, suggesting that this is where smaller platforms may need to go knocking for tech that is otherwise out of reach for them......
Q&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge's 10th anniversary, tech media's advance from early breathless gadget reviews, subject-source relationships, and more
After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech's troublesome relationship with the rest of the world. Tweets: @brandyzadrozny , @pierce ...
GAO sustains a Microsoft protest and asks NSA to reevaluate the award of a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS
Frank Konkel / Nextgov :
A look at a16z's crypto lobbying and draft legislation it is circulating in DC, which some worry may create regulatory loopholes for its portfolio companies
aka A16Z—has bet billions on world fueled by crypto, saying it will disrupt industries dominated by entrenched middlemen and is good for everyone. But they need new rules for this decentralized future...
Online course provider Udemy closes down 5.2% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at about $3.7B, after raising $421M in its US IPO
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Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and CTO Greg Lavender on the IBM partnership, how new transistor architectures could help outpace Moore's Law, and more
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware :
Google and Jio debut $87 JioPhone Next with a 5.45-inch HD+ display and Qualcomm's quad-core QM-215 chipset, available November 4 in India
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Google says it will roll out e2e encrypted phone calls on Google Fi over the coming weeks
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Chinese smart home devices maker Aqara raises a $155M Series C from investors including state-backed Shenzhen Capital and China Telecom
Liya Su / DealStreetAsia :
Under pressure from China, Alibaba's market value has declined from a peak of $850B in October 2020 to ~$460B today; filings show T. Rowe and others cut stakes
Yifan Wang / Wall Street Journal :
Twitter rolls out Super Follow for select creators globally on iOS, after previously limiting the feature to US and Canada users
Huawei reports Q3 revenue fell 38% YoY to $21.2B, the fourth straight quarter of declining sales, and ~$2.3B net income, as US sanctions continue to bite
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Chinese ride-sharing startup T3 raises a $1.2B Series A led by state-backed conglomerate CITIC Group, as rival Didi faces a regulatory crackdown
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Sources: Bolt, which offers a one-click checkout service, is seeking to raise a $777M Series E at a pre-money valuation of between $10B and $11B
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