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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Estimate: Apple's iOS App Tracking Transparency policy has cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube almost $10B in combined ad revenue in H2 2021 — Forcing apps to ask for permission to track users for advertising purposes leads to big hit for social media platforms
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The Verge, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, Ubergizmo, and Forbes
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| Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: |
After a three-day outage, Roblox says it is back online — According to Roblox's status page, all versions of the game have been down since Oct 28 starting at 7 pm EST — Roblox, one of the most popular games in the world, has been down for over a day now and while many frustrated players …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market — - In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs.
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
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.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
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 …
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CNET, Oculus Blog, Game Rant, and PCMag
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| Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic: |
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PYMNTS.com, New York Times, and Micky
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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On my Om, New York Times, Puck, The Information, BBC, Insider, Socialnomics, Australian Financial Review, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @hadley, @spikedonline, @jason_kint, @paulskallas, @kmjeezy, @reuters, @denniskendel, @drtechlash, @evleaks, @ericverdin, @sushilaaron, @frankpasquale, @msense_app, @senwarren, @kenroth, @donal_okeeffe, @zackbornstein, @ozraeliavi, @babblingbrookea, @vancityreynolds, @bettemidler, @meta_pr1, @mayazi, @mayazi, @jeffjohnroberts, @mayazi, @matthewstoller, @adamnash, @sbyrnes, @kenmhaggerty, @dkthomp, @birdyword, @digiphile, @joannastern, @oliverdarcy, @jstn, @tablehopper, @docdre, @dkthomp, @edzitron, @mshannahmurphy, @harrymccracken, @snowden, @fvogelstein, @benedictevans, and @jeffbercovici
| Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say sourcing chips has almost turned into a lottery amid the global chip shortage, as wait times ballooned to 22 weeks in October — Nearly a year into the crisis, some customers are finding it is taking months more than expected to get needed parts
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Ars Technica and AppleInsider
Tweets: @trengriffin, @axelmerk, @jimpethokoukis, @iangarrickmason, @daniel_rubino, and @jchengwsj
| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
A look at “creepypasta”, ghost stories such as Slender Man that spread online, and how decentralized myth-making can explain the rise of meme stocks and QAnon — Or: how the tale of Slender Man can explain the rise of QAnon. … These words, posted on a forum in 2009 …
Tweets: @izakaminska, @pkedrosky, @carnage4life, and @svr13
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
YouTube's mistaken deletion of a channel belonging to UK news outlet Novara Media draws criticism over the company's power as a content regulator — Novara, a London news group, fell victim to YouTube's opaque and sometimes arbitrary enforcement of its rules.
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Slashdot. Tweets: @satariano, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimes, @satariano, @news_maker, @nickgillespie, @notjessewalker, @eevblog, and @ayocaesar
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based grocery delivery startup Zepto emerges from stealth with $60M from Glade Brook Capital, Nexus, Y Combinator, and others — Two 19-year-old entrepreneurs, who have previously collaborated on a number of projects including a ride-hailing commute app for school kids and last year left Stanford … | Politico: |
Industry and government officials say Gaia-X, a project to reduce the EU's cloud dependency on US tech giants, is clogged by infighting and bloated bureaucracy — The initiative, meant to boost Europe's cloud services, is failing to fix the problems it was intended to solve.| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Apple's $19 Polishing Cloth has become its most back-ordered new product with shipments delayed until January; source: the company isn't surprised by the demand — It's a $19 cloth. — OAKLAND, Calif — Apple this month unveiled an array of new gadgets: more powerful MacBook laptop computers …
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iFixit News, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Engadget
Tweets: @tonytassell, @campuscodi, @parikpatelcfa, @ijustine, @kyweise, @detroitborg, @philiped, @cwarzel, @counternotions, and @kevinroose
| Bloomberg: |
A look at student activity monitoring software GoGuardian, whose usage in US schools exploded during lockdowns as some say it adds to kids' psychological strain — The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online.
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