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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 major server issues — Roblox has been down for more than two days, with the game and its related website offline for millions of players.
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| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Beijing-based Huice, a SaaS provider that helps e-commerce businesses manage orders and more, raises a $312M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — Huice, which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to enable smart retail, has raised $312 million in a Series D round led by SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund 2.| 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 … | 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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
BackBox, which provides companies with network automation, security, and management software, raises $32M Series A led by Elsewhere Partners — BackBox, a network automation, security, and management service provider, today announced that it raised $32 million in a series A round led by venture firm Elsewhere Partners.
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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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