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Metaverse Land Just Sold For $8,515 (3 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $8,515, which is 1.77x the current floor price of 1.63 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Benzinga

Mark Zuckerberg says mass employee exodus is good, actually

Zuck's delusion continues unabated.

Input

Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel dismisses Facebook’s metaverse as ‘hypothetical’

Founder says his company is committed to augmenting the real world rather than replacing it

The Guardian - UK

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Labour branded 'shameful' for attack on drug policy amid deaths crisis

THE Labour party are causing a stir on social media with an advertisement firing into the Liberal Democrats over their policies on nuclear weapons…

The National (Scotland)

Parliamentary panel to summon Google, Twitter, Amazon, other big tech firms to discuss competitive conduct

NEW DELHI: With a number of global tech giants facing Competition Commission of India's (CCI) probe for alleged anti-competitive practices, a key Parliamentary panel on Thursday decided to summon representatives of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and others to examine their competitive behaviour.

The Times of India

Why Facebook Parent Meta Is 'Executing Well In Difficult Environment'

It was a turnaround of sorts for Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) Wednesday as the social media giant rebounded from the fourth quarter's disappointing performance.

Benzinga

Labour adverts attack Lib Dems for wanting to decriminalise drugs

But adverts include false claims about liberal policies

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Disinformation board to tackle Russia, migrant smugglers

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new panel to tackle disinformation

The Independent UK

Meta Still Subject To Consumer Lawsuits For Breach Of Data Protection Rules, EU Regulator Says

The European Union's top court said Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is still subject to consumer group lawsuits for possible violations of data protection rules, Bloomberg reports. In a dispute between the Federation of German Consumer Organizations and Meta's Facebook, Germany's top civil court sought the EU tribunal's guidance on whether lawsuits to protect…

Benzinga

Amazon's Refusal To Reveal Product Search Algo Could Fuel Its Showdown With Australia

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) refused to detail its product-search system to an Australian competition regulator, Reuters reports. Amazon has denied offering an advantage to its products over rivals. Amazon's withholding of the information could lead to a possible repeat of Australia's 2021 showdown with Facebook rebranded Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google forcing…

Benzinga

Owner throws 'Bark Mitzvah' for 13-year-old dog - with his own kippah and tallit

Owner Ashley Sherman was raised as a Reform Jew and threw her chihuahua his very own 'Bark Mitzvah' on his 13th birthday as a bit of harmless fun - the pooch even wore a kippah and tallit at the ceremony

Daily Mirror

Flip Out closing: 'Sadness' as popular indoor play centre to shut

Many families will be devastated

Bristol Post

Woman updates tired garden furniture with paint for less than £50 and people can't believe the result

Paint it, don't bin it

Wales Online

Russian Court Penalizes YouTube, Twitter Again - Read Why

A Russian court has penalized U.S. internet giant Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google 3 million roubles ($41,000) for refusing to remove banned content from YouTube, Reuters reports. The Russian court has also punished social media network Twitter, Inc (NYSE:TWTR) with 3 million roubles ($41,000) for not removing banned content from its site. Also Read: Facebook, Apple,…

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Facebook Parent Meta Calms Investors with Strong Profit

Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday reported better profit than expected in the recently ended quarter, calming investors worried about the toll of competition from TikTok and eased pandemic restrictions. Meta said it made a profit of $7.5 billion on revenue of $27.9 billion in the first three months of this…

Bangkok Post

Department confirms ammonite fossils found at Bangkok mall are real

The Department of Mineral Resources confirmed ammonite fossils recently found embedded in the walkways of Siam Square shopping mall in Bangkok were real.

The Independent UK

AP-NORC poll: Most in US fear Ukraine war misinformation

A majority of U.S. adults say misinformation around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major problem, and they largely fault the Russian government for spreading those falsehoods

Benzinga

Facebook Parent's Metaverse Division Loses Nearly $3B In Q1, But Mark Zuckerberg Wants To See It Through

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) said in its first-quarter earnings report that its Facebook Reality Labs division incurred a loss of $2.96 billion in the period.

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Chicago Tribune

Meta expanding massive $1 billion Illinois data center, set to power everything from Facebook to Instagram beginning next year

Meta, the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, is expanding its massive $1 billion data center under construction in DeKalb to nearly 2.4 million square feet, putting the college town west of Chicago at the center of its metaverse.

Leeds Live

Estate agent hides 'golden boards' across Leeds with £2,000 holiday prize on offer

The boards will be dotted around the city

Salon

What happened when I quit Twitter

If you're thinking of leaving after the Elon Musk news, here's what I've learned

ABC News

Federal election: Leaders clash over cost of living as record inflation becomes key election issue

Record inflation and cost-of-living pressures continued to dominate the campaign trail, as the major parties took their election pitches to Sydney and Cairns.

The Guardian - US

Meta shares soar despite a decidedly mixed quarter report

The Facebook parent company is continuing a major rebrand of its products and focusing more heavily on the metaverse

ABC News

Ukraine-Russia war: Memorial constructed in Lviv to honour those killed in invasion, Putin warns of 'immediate response' to intervention in Ukraine — as it happened

A wall of artificial flowers featuring laminated photos of those who have died is built overnight in Lviv as a memorial to the thousands of civilians killed in Ukraine.

Benzinga

Meta Platforms Q1 Earnings Highlights: EPS Beat, Revenue Miss, User Metrics Up And More

Social media platform and metaverse company Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB) announced first quarter earnings after market close Wednesday. Here are the highlights.

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