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Livestream of Facebook Connect 2021, where an Oculus Quest Pro, a new company name, and more are expected — Tune in at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET on Thurs. Oct. 28 when Facebook holds its annual Facebook Connect. The company is expected to announce Oculus updates and o...
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR spaces, Messenger VR calls, fitness VR, Quest for Business, including Work Accounts support on Quest 2, and more — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
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| The Verge: |
Facebook announces Presence Platform, with three SDKs to help create mixed reality experiences for the Oculus Quest VR headset — Facebook says the Presence Platform ‘will be key to feeling connected in the metaverse’ — At this year's Facebook Connect, the platform revealed something called …
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Windows Central, UploadVR, TechCrunch, CNN, Road to VR, Input, and Android Central. Tweets: @thedextriarchy
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| K.G Orphanides / Wired UK: |
Review of Raspberry Pi's new $15 Zero 2 W, featuring a 64-bit CPU, 512MB RAM, and WiFi 4: surprisingly powerful and ideal for emulation and automation projects — The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is powerful for a computer the size of a matchbox, but get a Pi 4 or Pi 400 if you want a better desktop experience
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Tweets: @raspberry_pi, @raspberry_pi, @stroughtonsmith, @github, @hacksterio, and @aallan
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple support document says 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro users can turn on “scale to fit below built-in camera” to avoid notch app compatibility issues — Apple today shared a new support document that explains how users can ensure that an app's menu bar items do not appear hidden behind …
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| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
Microsoft launches a campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the US by 2025, offering scholarships and free curriculum for community colleges — Microsoft announced Thursday that it's launching a national campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. by 2025 …
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the impact of Apple's ATT on Alphabet and Facebook: limits on Facebook's ad targeting raises ad spends for brands, sending some advertisers to Google — New iPhone privacy standards rocked digital advertising, raising some boats and lowering others| Jennifer Ryan / Bloomberg: |
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who earned $154.6M last year, will take a pay cut to $62,500 and forego equity grants until diversity goals are met — - Compensation included paying CEO $154.6 million last year — Company facing sexual harassment and discrimination case
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Tweets: @valentine_irl, @valentine_irl, @jasonschreier, @jaugustine, @overbuff, @levighast, @crecenteb, and @crecenteb
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Samsung reports Q3 net profit of ~$10.5B, up 31% YoY, on record revenue of ~$63B, up 10% YoY, beating estimates; semiconductor sales nearly doubled to ~$8.5B — Credit high demand for chips, foldables, Switch OLED, and the iPhone 13. — In 2020, Samsung weathered the pandemic by posting …
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| Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine: |
While whistleblowing and accountability journalism are useful, only sweeping political changes can limit Facebook's power, which has proven enduring — Amid years of ongoing crisis, Facebook in recent weeks has faced the public-relations equivalent of nuclear annihilation.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google says it will roll out e2e encrypted phone calls on Google Fi over the coming weeks — But only for calls between two Android phones on Fi — In the coming weeks, Google is rolling out end-to-end encrypted phone calls on its Google Fi MVNO, the search giant announced today.
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Global money laundering watchdog FATF releases guidelines that could force crypto companies to check customers' identities and report suspicious transactions — New guidelines could spur more crypto firms to check their customers' identities and report suspicious transactions to regulators
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Coin Center, Bloomberg, Financial Times, bitcoinexchangeguide.com, and cryptodaily.co.uk
Tweets: @campuscodi, @neerajka, @twobitidiot, @amacker, and @jerrybrito
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Apple joins Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems, a program by Belgium-based R&D organization Imec to help reduce environmental impact of chips — Apple today announced that it has joined Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems (SSTS), a new research program launched …
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Shopify reports Q3 revenue of $1.12B, up 46% YoY, and gross merchandise volume of $41.8B, up 35% YoY, and says cumulative GMV reached $400B — Canada's Shopify Inc's (SHOP.TO) third-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street estimates, hurt by stiff competition as rivals invest more money to develop their e-commerce platforms.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The Sequoia Fund announcement shows Sequoia Capital wants to invest and keep long-term positions in SaaS companies with proven business models — Two weeks ago, in The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions,1 I puzzled about exactly where we were in the Age of Information and Telecommunications …
Tweets: @tyler, @plibin, @klarnaseb, @natbullard, @tobi, @modestproposal1, and @stratechery
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches the Spaces Recording feature that was announced last month, to a limited number of Spaces hosts on iOS and all listeners on iOS and Android — Twitter announced last month it would soon introduce an option that allows hosts to record their live audio sessions in Twitter Spaces to make them available for replay.
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NYU research suggests Twitter's algorithms promote conservative politicians because they are more likely to be “ratioed”, which Twitter may count as engagement — Our research suggests conservative politicians are ‘ratioed’ more often. That may explain why they're in your timeline.| Bloomberg: |
Google, Apple, Twitter, Snap, Microsoft, and others form the Catalyze Tech coalition, committing to improve DEI, share demographic data, and more — New report underscores importance of sharing data and supporting K-12 computer science education. — Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Twitter Inc. …
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ACT, Protocol, Business Wire, CNET, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @rachelracusen, @rachelracusen, and @vivian
| Bryan Walsh / Axios: |
GitHub says as much as 30% of new code on its network is written with its AI tool Copilot, and 50% of developers who tried it since July have kept using it — The open-source software developer GitHub says as much as 30% of newly written code on its network is being done with the help of the company's AI programming tool Copilot.
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Tweets: @dintersmith, @satyanadella, @quinnypig, @jordannovet, @campuscodi, @github, and @stevesi. Thanks:@colegarry2
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GlobalFoundries raises $2.6B in an IPO, selling shares for $47, valuing the company at over $25B, the third biggest US listing in 2021 behind Coupang and Didi — - Chipmaker's shares price at top of $42-$47 marketed range — Mubadala's portion of share sale increased from earlier plan
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Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy, which wants to be the “AWS for blockchains”, raises a $250M Series C at a $3.5B valuation led by a16z — The venture giant invests in the kinds of companies Alchemy has called clients for years. — Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy …
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products — We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it's the next chapter for our company too. — In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect and express ourselves more naturally.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Open-source SQL database developer Yugabyte raises a $188M Series C at a $1.3B valuation led by Sapphire Ventures — Today's world is run on data, and the amount of it that is being produced, managed and used to power services is growing by the minute — to the tune of some 79 zettabytes this year, according to one estimate.
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