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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Meta says the Quest Store has generated $1.5B revenue to date from apps and games; over one-third of its 400 titles grossed $1M+ and 33 grossed $10M+ — While outside research data suggests that the number of VR headsets being shipped over the past couple years has surged, the release of new VR titles hasn't always kept pace.
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New York Times, New World Notes, UploadVR, and Road to VR
Tweets: @anshelsag, @ldignan, and @davekarpf
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Meta Quest Pro: feels like a sophisticated development kit with a thoughtful design, improved controllers, one to two hours of battery, and more — Meta's new high-end headset introduces eye tracking and mixed reality for $1,499 … The first thing I notice with the Meta Quest Pro is the fit.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries — Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it's been teasing for the past year.
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Oculus, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, UploadVR, Washington Post, GeekWire, Road to VR, CNBC, Metaverse Post, CNN, Android Authority, Reuters, Forbes, Game Developer, PC Gamer, ZDNet, MobileSyrup, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Barron's Online, Press Start, Gizmodo, Tech Advisor, VRScout, SlashGear, TechEBlog, Neowin, Dexerto, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Road to VR, PCWorld, VentureBeat, The Verge, Protocol, VentureBeat, T3, Android Central, Fossbytes, Laptop Mag, UploadVR, TechRadar, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Notebookcheck.net, Digital Trends, KnowTechie, Pocket-lint, and Mashable
Tweets: @boztank, @scottkleinberg, @maxwinebach, @samro, @asemota, @jbenton, @mythrrinthael, @rmantri, @jelleprins, @martinvars, @libshipwreck, @laurengoode, @benwood, and @mgsiegler
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google partners with Coinbase to let some customers pay for cloud services using crypto, starting in 2023; Coinbase will move some apps from AWS to Google Cloud — - Google will start allowing a subset of customers to pay for cloud services with digital currencies early next year.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Office, Windows 365, and Xbox Cloud Gaming to Quest VR headsets in the coming months; Teams will use Meta's avatars — Microsoft and Meta looked like they were on a collision course last year, poised to compete heavily for the future of work in the metaverse.
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Oculus Blog, The Official Microsoft Blog, Gizmodo, GeekWire, ZDNet, PCMag, UploadVR, Game Developer, Windows Central, Wall Street Journal, TechRadar, Thurrott, Engadget, TechCrunch, Neowin, Engadget, Eurogamer.net, TheGamer, IT PRO, and Android Central
Tweets: @lucasmtny, @tomwarren, @nickstatt, @giuliano_mana, and @kylebrussell
| Meta on YouTube: |
A video of Meta's Connect 2022 keynote, showcasing the Quest Pro mixed reality headset, plans for the metaverse, new partnerships, and more — See how we're building the future of the metaverse together, and catch the latest updates, announcements and key moments from Connect 2022.Pre-order Meta Que...
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Tech at Meta, UploadVR, Game Developer, ZDNet, Meta, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Нов …, Tech Advisor, TechCrunch, Road to VR, Protocol, TheGamer, Laptop Mag, Tom's Guide, and Tom's Guide
Facebook: Facebook. Tweets: @stephentotilo, @boztank, @mgsiegler, @frontlinegamer, @tha_rami, @kimgrinfeder, @thedextriarchy, @shiraovide, and @kylebrussell
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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The Block and TechCrunch
Tweets: @rmac18, @azeem, @shiraovide, @joannastern, @kylebrussell, @kylebrussell, @thedextriarchy, @geoffreyfowler, @rachelmetz, @levynews, and @jank0
| Matt Robinson / Bloomberg: |
Source: the US SEC is investigating whether Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violated securities laws by selling its NFTs and ApeCoins — The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Yuga Labs Inc., the creator of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club collection of NFTs …
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CoinDesk, Decrypt, Metaversal, ETH Daily, Watcher Guru, Crypto Briefing, CryptoPotato, Fortune, Crowdfund Insider, and Ethereum World News
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @sxtvik, @pauly0x, @loopifyyy, and @loopifyyy
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta announces Horizon Worlds avatars are getting legs using an AI model to predict the body's position, an avatar store, avatars are coming to Reels, and more — Meta's Horizon avatars will be getting legs. So far, the company's avatars have weirdly just hovered off the ground …
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TechCrunch, CNET, Bloomberg, Insider, Vox, Gizmodo, Engadget, Forbes, and Mashable
Tweets: @markgongloff, @inafried, @kurtwagner8, @naominixwrites, and @dcseifert
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo predicts that, in the next three to five years, Apple may be able to supply the US market, or ~25% of global shipments, from assembly sites outside of China — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out today with some new predictions on how Apple can continue to reduce its reliance on China.
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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone Hacks, and iThinkDifferent
Tweets: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, and @mingchikuo
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google announces Chromebooks for cloud gaming: the $650 16-inch Acer 516 GE, the $600 16-inch Lenovo IdeaPad, and the $400 15.6-inch ASUS Vibe CX55 Flip — ASUS, Acer and Lenovo built Chromebooks optimized to run services like GeForce Now. — Three new laptops from ASUS, Acer and Lenovo| Justin Baer / Wall Street Journal: |
New York grants BNY Mellon, the US' oldest bank, permission to receive some customers' BTC and ETH; BNY will store keys, offer bookkeeping services, and more — Founded by Alexander Hamilton, BNY Mellon is the first large U.S. bank to safeguard digital assets alongside traditional investments
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BNY Mellon, CoinDesk, Protocol, PYMNTS.com, and CoinGape
Tweets: @bnymellon, @mayazi, and @scaramucci
| Washington Post: |
Under Texas' social media law, Kanye West's antisemitic posts on Twitter and Instagram would likely stay up, signaling a difficult future for social media — Taking down the rapper's bigoted posts was an easy call for Twitter and Instagram. That could change if Elon Musk and some GOP leaders have their way.
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Gizmodo, The Hill, Ars Technica, The Hollywood Reporter, Fortune, USA Today, CNN, Variety, BBC, Deadline, and 9to5Mac
| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
The Department of Labor proposes a rule that would make it harder for companies to classify US workers as independent contractors; Uber and Lyft drop 5%+ — A proposed rule, long awaited by labor activists, would make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.
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TechCrunch, CNBC, Lyft, Gizmodo, The Register, U.S. Department of Labor, The Rideshare Guy Blog …, Bloomberg, Reuters, VICE, PYMNTS.com, Fast Company, Fortune, Financial Times, and Engadget
Tweets: @noamscheiber, @uber_comms, @alfonslopeztena, @mattbruenig, @coachfelecia, @jonscollins, and @usdol
| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on the Quest Pro, mixed reality, the Microsoft partnership, metaverse plans, TikTok, BeReal, the Discovery Engine approach, and more — A year after rebranding Facebook to Meta, Mark Zuckerberg is still all in on building the metaverse
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TechCrunch, Oculus Blog, TIME, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, BBC, The Verge on YouTube, MarketWatch, and CNBC
Tweets: @siuying, @samifathi_, @jonathanvanian, @iumerraja, @joannastern, @mikeinberkeley, @benadamsondxb, @antranaut, and @reckless
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Brex, valued at $12.3B in January 2022, lays off 136, or 11% of its staff, as part of a restructuring, and its CFO departs to join HR software startup Rippling — The startup's CFO is departing to join Rippling, which recently entered the spend management space| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
In a rare speech, the UK's GCHQ head Jeremy Fleming warns China's tech ambitions, including a CBDC currency, are a security issue “that will define our future” — Confronting Beijing's technological ambitions is ‘the national security issue that will define our future,’ Jeremy Fleming says| Kollen Post / The Block: |
Crypto exchange Bittrex agrees to a $29.3M settlement with the US Treasury Department over potential liability for sanctions violations between 2014 and 2017 — - Bittrex is facing record fines from the U.S. Treasury Department over the exchange's lack of sanctions controls between 2014 and 2017.
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U.S. Department …, New York Times, CyberScoop, Decrypt, Associated Press, Watcher Guru, and CryptoSlate
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Over a dozen job openings hint TikTok plans to open fulfillment centers in the US as the company looks to build an “international e-commerce fulfillment system” — TikTok is planning to build its own product fulfillment centers in the U.S., creating an e-commerce supply chain system …
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CNN, Associated Press, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Tubefilter, LinkedIn, and Caixin Global. Tweets: @liahaberman
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, opened in 2021 to let anyone “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate users with FLOW tokens or stablecoins — You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace …
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CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, Gizmodo, Decrypt, and Fortune
Tweets: @vaultbycnn, @parkermolloy, @mdudas, @tomgara, and @genepark
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4090 review: great 4K performance, DLSS 3 transforms frame rates, and 24GB of VRAM, but a 450W power draw, a dongle adapter, huge, and expensive — The RTX 40-series starts with a big performance leap — I had to triple check my benchmarks over and over during this review, because I couldn't quite believe my eyes.
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TechSpot, Forbes, BabelTechReviews, PCGamesN, VideoCardz.com, PCWorld, Ars Technica, HotHardware, Digital Trends, Engadget, Eurogamer.net, Forbes, Gizmodo, and Neowin
Tweets: @tomwarren and @powergpu
| Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal: |
Billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner renounced his Russian citizenship in August 2022, after leaving Russia in 2014; Milner became an Israeli citizen in 1999 — His firm, DST Global, has invested in technology companies including Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Intel and Google announce a co-designed E2000 chip for data centers, aiming to improve security and efficiency; Intel can sell the E2000 to other customers — Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud on Tuesday said they have launched a co-designed chip that can make data centers more secure and efficient.
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Livemint and ServeTheHome
| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Apple plans to add 5G support to iPhone 12, 13, and 14 models in India by December 2022 via an iOS update and meet Airtel executives this week — Senior executives from Apple and Bharti Airtel will meet this week to discuss rollout timeline for software updates to 5G-capable iPhones …
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Reuters, MacRumors, Livemint, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, and TechCrunch
| Andy Stone / @andymstone: |
Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated” — @JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, not humans. And the underlying documentation appears to be fabricated.
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