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Why Some Apple Workers Are Threatening To Quit Over A Policy That Takes Effect On April 11

Last month, Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook wrote an email to his employees asking them to return to their offices beginning April 11.

How to view your Instagram feed in chronological order and only see your fave accounts

How to view your Instagram feed in chronological order and only see your fave accounts

Ditch the algorithm and fill your feed with posts you actually want to see with Instagram’s new feed filters.

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $10,730 (3 ETH) In The SandBox

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $10,730 (3 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $10,730, which is 1.38x the current floor price of 2.239 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

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This Plot Of Digital Land Just Sold For $11,734 In ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $11,734, which is 1.51x the current floor price of 2.239 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 $20,769 (6 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $20,769, which is 2.68x the current floor price of 2.239 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Facebook's Algorithmic Bug Subjected Content To Integrity Risks

A group of Facebook rebranded Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) engineers identified a "massive ranking failure" that exposed up to half of all News Feed views to "integrity risks" over the past six months, the Verge reports. In October, the engineers first noticed the issue when a sudden surge of misinformation began flowing through…

The metaverse doesn't look as disruptive as it should, it looks ordinary – here's why

Virtual real estate is booming. In December 2021, one buyer spent US$450,000 (around £332,500) on a plot of land in rapper Snoop Dogg’s virtual world. Which begs the question of what will be built there.

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Facebook's latest faceplants

Facebook's latest faceplants

A fresh wave of self-inflicted troubles for the social networking giant came to light this week.

Internal Bug Promoted Problematic Content on Facebook

Internal Bug Promoted Problematic Content on Facebook

Content identified as misleading or problematic were mistakenly prioritized in users' Facebook feeds recently, thanks to a software bug that took six months to fix, according to tech site The Verge. Facebook disputed the report, which was published Thursday, saying that it "vastly overstated what this bug was because ultimately…

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Meta says pivot to video is working as it shoves Reels in front of users

Meta says pivot to video is working as it shoves Reels in front of users

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Read Why Qualcomm Failed To Mark AI Chip Debut With Meta

Read Why Qualcomm Failed To Mark AI Chip Debut With Meta

Leading mobile phone processor supplier Qualcomm Inc (NASDAQ:QCOM) looked to tap its energy efficiency expertise to break into the fast-growing market for the artificial intelligence chips used in data centers in 2019, the Information reports. Qualcomm wooed Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) to make Facebook’s owner the flagship customer for Qualcomm’s first AI data center chip,…

Meta and Apple both complied with fake law enforcement data requests

Meta and Apple both complied with fake law enforcement data requests

At least some of the data obtained this way has already been used for harassment and financial fraud schemes.

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $28,635 (10,888 MANA) In Decentraland

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $28,635 (10,888 MANA) In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $28,635, which is 2.72x the current floor price of 3.1858 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($28,635 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…

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $47,050 (17,890 MANA) In Decentraland

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $47,050 (17,890 MANA) In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $47,050, which is 4.48x the current floor price of 3.1858 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($47,050 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…

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This Plot Of Digital Land Just Sold For $14,643 In ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $14,643, which is 1.96x the current floor price of 2.26 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 5 ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $16,120, which is 2.16x the current floor price of 2.26 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 $23,086 (7 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $23,086, which is 3.10x the current floor price of 2.26 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Veggie 'Meat' Maker Tofurky Wins Free Speech Challenge to Food-Labeling Law

Plus: Meta's campaign to smear TikTok, new research on immigrants and welfare, and more...

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Hackers Got User Data from Meta with Forged Request

Facebook owner Meta gave user information to hackers who pretended to be law enforcement officials last year, a company source said Wednesday, highlighting the risks of a measure used in urgent cases. Imposters were able to get details like physical addresses or phone numbers in response to falsified "emergency data…

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Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

A study found that external articles shared on the bioweapons myth were not labeled as ‘false information’ or ‘missing context’

Apple, Meta Doled Out Customer Data To Hackers Masquerading As Law Enforcement: Report

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) shared customer data with hackers who pretended to be law enforcement, Bloomberg

Apple Developing In-House Tech Infrastructure Around Financial Services: Here's What You Need To Know

Fresh after acquiring United Kingdom-based Credit Kudos, it was revealed that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is

The Independent UK

Facebook resorts to old smear tactics against TikTok

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, hired a Republican consulting firm called Targeted Victory to “orchestrate a nationwide campaign” against TikTok, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Apple and Meta unknowingly gave hackers customer data, sources say

The tech giants reportedly provided basic subscriber details, including customers’ addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses

The Guardian - UK

‘Embarrassing’: Russia scrambles to copy banned social media platforms

Rossgram, a substitute for Instagram, mocked as Russian PM announces policy of ignoring copyright

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