Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Meta

Virtual Land Just Sold For 25 ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $61,867, which is 7.40x the current floor price of 3.38 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

YouTube To Explore NFT Features For Video Creators: Report

YouTube To Explore NFT Features For Video Creators: Report

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube is exploring adding nonfungible token features for its video creators, Bloomberg reports. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) began letting users post NFTs as profile photos, and Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Instagram is working on a similar offering. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told creators her company was looking to web3, an umbrella term for internet…

I’ve seen the metaverse – and I don’t want it

I’ve seen the metaverse – and I don’t want it

The tech world has been overtaken by the seductive idea of a virtual utopia, but what’s on offer looks more like a late-capitalist technocratic nightmare

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Amazon and Meta spent record amount on lobbying Congress in 2021

Legislation targeting the dominant market share of tech giants has been cited as a key reason for the increase in spending

The Independent UK

Meta swears it will have the world's fastest supercomputer this year

Mark Zuckerberg plus 'AI supercomputer.' What could go wrong?

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building the world’s fastest AI supercomputer

Facebook founder’s planned metaverse, blending reality with digital experiences, will require enormous computing power

The Guardian - UK

Why A Real Crypto Crash Is Precisely What Everyone Should Be Hoping For In 2022

A true crash is not what we want but it is what we deserve. It might seem counter-intuitive but I believe we need a crypto winter like those that have come before.

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $14,602 (6 ETH) In The SandBox

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $14,602 (6 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $14,602, which is 1.82x the current floor price of 3.4 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Virtual Land Just Sold For 6 ETH In The SandBox

Virtual Land Just Sold For 6 ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $15,992, which is 2.00x the current floor price of 3.4 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $34,009 (14 ETH) In The SandBox

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $34,009 (14 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $34,009, which is 4.25x the current floor price of 3.4 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Facebook Parent Meta Says Its New AI Supercomputer Will Be World’s Fastest

Facebook Parent Meta Says Its New AI Supercomputer Will Be World’s Fastest

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Monday that its research team has built a new artificial intelligence supercomputer that it thinks will be the fastest in the world when completed in mid-2022. Meta said in a blog post that its new AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) would help the company…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Meta Launches Next-Gen AI Supercomputer: All You Need To Know

Meta Launches Next-Gen AI Supercomputer: All You Need To Know

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) touts its AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), among the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest in the world once fully built out in mid-2022. Several hundred people, including researchers from partners NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), Penguin Computing Inc, and Pure Storage Inc (NYSE:PSTG), were involved in the two-year project, the Wall Street…

Meta: Facebook owner wants to build ‘the most powerful AI supercomputer in the world’

Meta: Facebook owner wants to build ‘the most powerful AI supercomputer in the world’

Meta says it wants to build the most powerful artificial intelligence supercomputer in the world.

The Independent UK

Check Out What Whales Are Doing With Meta Platforms

Check Out What Whales Are Doing With Meta Platforms

Benzinga's options scanner just detected over 12 options trades for Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) summing a total amount of $636,037. At the same time, our algo caught 7 for a total amount of 493,341.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

A mother is suing Snapchat and Instagram over her tween daughter's suicide

The lawsuit alleges that the platforms “failed to provide adequate safeguards from the harmful effects they knew were occurring.”

The Independent UK

Mother sues social media companies after daughter dies by suicide

11 year old girl’s death was a direct result of Instagram and Snapchat’s ‘inaction and deliberate addictive design’, lawsuit says

Benzinga Bulls And Bears Of The Past Week: ViacomCBS, Ford, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, Tesla And More

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week.

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $49,200 (20,000 MANA) In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $49,200, which is 3.97x the current floor price of 4.41529923 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($49,200 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $16,994 (6 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $16,994, which is 1.79x the current floor price of 3.4 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $22,916 (8 WETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $22,916, which is 2.47x the current floor price of 3.4 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $26,467 (9 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $26,467, which is 2.79x the current floor price of 3.4 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Snap Ramps Up International Expansion Capitalizing On Cleaner Image

Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) sped up its global expansion from Mexico to Japan through tie-ups with wireless carriers and highlighting its popular augmented reality features, Reuters reports. Snap remained largely unscathed by global governments and regulators and has developed a playbook for attracting users in new markets that plays up the appeal of…

Looking At Meta Platforms's Recent Whale Trades

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Meta Platforms. Looking at options history for Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) we detected 19 strange trades.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Meta Removes Iran-based Fake Accounts

Facebook parent Meta Platforms removed a network of fake accounts that originated in Iran and targeted Instagram users in Scotland with content supporting Scottish independence, the company's investigators said on Thursday. The network used fake accounts to pose as locals in England and Scotland, posting photos and memes about current…

The Conversation

A killer app for the metaverse? Fill it with AI avatars of ourselves – so we don't need to go there

Big numbers coming. Microsoft’s US$75 billion (£55 billion) acquisition of Activision Blizzard has landed – true to Call of Duty vernacular – “like a bomb” on the US$200 billion revenue video games industry.

1 … 402 403 404 405

People

Mark Zuckerberg

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Organisations

Wall Street Journal

Activision Blizzard

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

340,019 stories

131,229 stories

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.

Download on the AppStore

Get it on Google Play