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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
SlashNext, which offers AI-driven anti-phishing services for enterprise communications, raises a $26M Series B — Phishing, a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a message designed to trick a victim into revealing sensitive information or installing malware or ransomware, is on the rise.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Dell spins off its 81% stake in VMware, creating a $64B independent software company; Dell's remaining hardware operations have an implied value of $33B — Share sale completes eight-year saga that will unwind part of the 2018 deal for server and storage company EMC| 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.Sponsor Posts
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Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
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The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
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Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
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The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
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Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI
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