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A sexual assault in the metaverse has investigators questioning the future of virtual crime prosecution
The British police are investigating a relatively novel allegation: that a teenage girl's avatar wa…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Making sense of metaverse – a primer
We can go to the science fiction novel Snow Crash, which is commonly accepted as the origin of t…
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Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse losses pass $40 billion. Here's why that's suddenly OK.
Mark Zuckerberg continues to spend a massive amount on his Metaverse bet. Here's why Wall Street is…
Kali Hays
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Meta's CTO was asked whether the term 'metaverse' did more harm than good. He chuckled and compared it to the early confusion over the word 'internet.'
Meta's CTO, Andrew Bosworth, hosted a Q&A session on Instagram on Monday where he said the term "me…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Sony unveils smartphone motion-tracking bands for Metaverse - here’s how it works
Consumer electronics giant, Sony, unveiled Mocopi - its latest invention for motion capturing. The …
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Democratic Senators urge Meta to halt launch of Metaverse app for teens, citing company's 'failure to protect' young users
Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal wrote a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calling him to…
Aidan Pollard
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'Dean of Valuation' Aswath Damodaran says the story behind Nvidia's stock surge makes sense but its current price doesn't
The NYU finance professor known as the 'Dean of Valuation' thinks Nvidia would have to dominate the…
Zinya Salfiti
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Mark Zuckerberg should dial down the metaverse crap and make Facebook 'Facebook' again
Staring down the barrel of a potential recession, Meta should be focused on growing engagement and …
Travis Clark
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EXCLUSIVE: Kavin Bharti Mittal dives into what Hike’s version of the metaverse is going to look like
Hike’s whitepaper for going web3 is set to go live next month. The process of taking Rush by Hike o…
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a U-turn on metaverse spending as Reality Labs is hit with a new 'efficiency' mantra
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to be leaner as his metaverse division Reality Labs lost…
Kali Hays
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6G will hit the market around 2030 amid the expansion of the 'industrial metaverse,' Nokia CEO says
Pekka Lundmark discussed the predicted arrival of 6G during his appearance on a Davos panel titled …
Rosie Bradbury
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See inside Facebook's first ever physical retail location. Dubbed the Meta Store, it's designed to drum up interest in VR headsets and the metaverse.
Potential customers will get the chance to test out Facebook's hardware in person and in an environ…
Kali Hays
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Mark Zuckerberg is betting it all on the metaverse because he wants to create an imitation world where he controls everything
In the metaverse, Zuckerberg doesn't have to worry about other companies interfering with his busin…
Travis Clark
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This Ethereum-based metaverse is letting crypto fans own land on the Red Planet, even though international space laws would disagree
But, that feature will only go live once the game launches next year. The developers are hopin…
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Mark Zuckerberg wants his employees to be 'Metamates,' putting their 'ship' and crew before themselves
Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post that a new value was "Meta, Metamates, Me," a play on words of t…
Katie Canales
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Metaverse real estate isn't really land — it's a 'risky' crypto asset that's nothing like the physical thing
People are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into metaverse land, but experts told Insider it…
Katie Canales
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Meta issued a full-throated defense of its metaverse spending, saying it still 'believes in the future' and won't bow to 'short-term thinking'
Meta's chief tech officer wrote that it's sticking with the metaverse, after a consulting executive…
Travis Clark
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Celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Paris Hilton are diving into the metaverse before it has even materialized for the masses
Snoop Dogg's yet-to-be-launched "Snoopverse" and Paris Hilton's Roblox-based virtual island prove t…
Katie Canales
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Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision acquisition is crucial for the company to expand its 'metaverse' plans — here's what that means
Xbox leader Phil Spencer said that Microsoft's "vision of the metaverse is based on intersecting gl…
Ben Gilbert
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Mark Zuckerberg is creating a future that looks like a worse version of the world we already have
Silicon Valley is buying into the hype for "the metaverse" Zuckerberg ushered in when he announced …