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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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| Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic: |
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 …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an aging userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage — If his new strategy works — a big if — it could help address several of Facebook's biggest problems.
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| The Verge: |
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 …
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| Delia Cai / Vanity Fair: |
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.| Foreign Affairs: |
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 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Roblox has been down since about 7PM ET on October 28, with some speculating 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.
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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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| Damon Beres / Wired: |
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.
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| 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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| Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Profile of barbershop booking app Squire, which is on track to triple its revenue to $12M in 2021 after raising $60M at a $750M valuation in July — Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant left their desks behind to create booking software for the nation's 109,000 barbershops.| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
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 …
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