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Altoona site will be Meta''s largest data center in the world by 2025, company announces
01:00am, Wednesday, 15'th Dec 2021 Des Moines Register
Meta, formerly Facebook, announced plans Tuesday for a final expansion of its data center in Altoona, bringing it to over 5 million square feet.
Sonic identity is the missing component for social metaverse experiences
11:55pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 Tech News Tube
Jaime Bosch Contributor Share on Twitter Jaime Bosch is the co-founder and CEO of Voicemod. In the many conversations around "the metaverse" sparked by the Facebook corporate name transition to Meta, much has focused on the visual elements. What''s hardly mentioned is audio. Yet voice really matters when making a virtual environment come to life. Sometimes, it''s everything. Just ask Spike Jonze. The movie director discarded the original voice actor in the title role of his 2013 film "Her" and substituted Scarlett Johansson''s sultry timbres. Although Samantha, a computer operating . . .
Facebook Oversight Board calls on Meta to evaluate its role in spreading violence in Ethiopia
11:26pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 TechCrunch
The Oversight Board, a group Facebook created to review its policy decisions, weighed in on a case of misinformation in war-torn Ethiopia Tuesday, warning the company about the risks of allowing hate speech and unverified information to spread freely in conflict zones. The Oversight Board reviewed a post in Amharic from an Ethiopia-based Facebook user []
Facebook Oversight Board calls on Meta to evaluate its role in spreading violence in Ethiopia TechCrunch
11:26pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 TechCrunch
The Oversight Board, a group Facebook created to review its policy decisions, weighed in on a case of misinformation in war-torn Ethiopia Tuesday, warning the company about the risks of allowing hate speech and unverified information to spread freely in conflict zones. The Oversight Board reviewed a post in Amharic from an Ethiopia-based Facebook user []
Is Fenerbahçe Token (FB) Worth the Risk Tuesday?
10:50pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 Techtelegraph
Fenerbahçe Token receives a high risk rating from InvestorsObserver analysis. The proprietary scoring system analyzes how much money was required to move the price over the past 24 hours. The metric looks at recent changes in volume and market cap to evaluate how much a token can be manipulated by limited trading. The score ranges [] The post Is Fenerbahçe Token (FB) Worth the Risk Tuesday? appeared first on TECHTELEGRAPH .
Companies like Nike rush to build for a metaverse
10:48pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 Axios
Companies are rushing to build for a metaverse even as consumers are still trying to understand the concept. Driving the news: Nike just acquired RTFKT, a developer of digital goods, including virtual sneakers and NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Meanwhile, Applebees is launching a new NFT every Monday this month, following White Castles move into crypto. Why it matters: Virtual and mixed environments are expected to upend businesses the way the internet did, industry watchers say. The way they evolve has the potential to disrupt almost everything in human life, analysts at Jefferies wrote , per Business Insider. Be smart: The metaverse concept has been around for decades. Several different kinds already exist think Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, Decentraland and The Sandbox. While Facebooks pivot to Meta has increased media attention , huge brands from Gucci to Taco Bell have been experimenting with digital product launches all year. At Nike, the bet is that people will want to buy digital goods for their digital personas .
This pandemic has made proper nutrition even more of a challenge
10:45pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 Manila Bulletin News
Moms overcome nutri-problems for their kids by giving them Lakas at Talas Nutrition has always been a pressing issue, especially now that families are becoming more vulnerable to health and economic problems. During these trying times, the resiliency shown by moms has inspired the Alaska Fortified Powdered Milk Drink team in conducting a survey to better understand their nutrition needs and issues encountered during the pandemic. The survey was conducted among members of the MOMs of Alaska (MOMAs) Facebook community, a group for moms who are dedicated to providing their children proper nutrition. And while providing nutrition remains one of their priorities, the survey has found that it has taken a back seat to more urgent concerns like supporting the familys finances, budgeting limited earnings for food, health and safety necessities, juggling family responsibilities, and the like. The survey received responses from nearly 300 moms from different walks of life such as housewives, call center agents, online sellers, teachers, vendors and many more.
Family Photograph Traveled Over 150 Miles From Where Tornado Hit, Found On A Car Windshield
10:38pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 Analyzing America
Walking out to her car, Katie Posten found a photograph on her windshield that belongs to a family over 150 miles away in Kentucky. The photo was found in Indiana after a swarm of tornados raged through the region. Posten shared the story to Facebook and eventually found the owners. A lot of people shared [] The post Family Photograph Traveled Over 150 Miles From Where Tornado Hit, Found On A Car Windshield appeared first on Analyzing America .
Facebook admits the truth: Fact checks are really just (lefty) opinion
09:29pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 New York Post
Facebook finally admitted the truth: The fact checks that social media use to police what Americans read and watch are just opinion. Thats thanks to a lawsuit brought by celebrated journalist John Stossel, which has exposed the lefts supposed battle against misinformation as a farce. Stossel posted a pair of videos that touched the third
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09:01pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 Hosttech
(PR-inside.com) NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / December 14, 2021 / Bernstein Liebhard, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion no later than December 27, 2021 in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of Meta Platforms, Inc. f/k/a Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:FB) from April 29, 2021 through October 21, 2021 (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York alleges violations of the Securities ..
Facebook admits that its ‘fact-checkers’ are simply ‘protected opinions’
08:47pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 BLDaily The BL
The Facebook company, now known as Meta, admitted in a legal document that its famous “fact-checkers” whose function is ultimately to limit or censor the dissemination of those news stories they deem ‘not factual’ are simply biased opinions. Facebook’s admission was learned through a deposition the company made in a defamation lawsuit by conservative news […]
In Facebook''s virtual universe opinion substitutes for fact
08:13pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 Big News Network
Facebook likes to present its fact-checkers as impartial arbiters of squeaky-clean truth. The reality, however, shows they are no more bound by the constraints of certainty and infallibility than the users they monitor. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, which he originally founded as Facebook, adores facts. He adores facts so much that he has employed a veritable army of wor
Bitcoin-based game Moonray raises over $3.5M of funding
07:30pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 CoinTribune
The metaverse buzz has been taking the world by storm as of late, becoming more and more popular among wider audiences. As is the case with each new big thing, the main driver of the Meta hype has been the interest of big corporations such as Facebook (Meta). And one of the main tools for [] Larticle Bitcoin-based game Moonray raises over $3.5M of funding est apparu en premier sur Cointribune .
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : A look back at tech''s three eras, from Bell Labs to Facebook, and why the metaverse is the fourth, defined by its bifurcation with the physical world For the first several years of Stratechery I would write a year end article about The State of Consumer Technology; the last one I wrote
A former Tinder crypto fund
06:19pm, Tuesday, 14'th Dec 2021 Bitcoin Ethereum News
The post A former Tinder crypto fund appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com . Three former executives from Tinder, Stripe and Facebook have set up a fund to develop the crypto sector. Chapter One, the investment fund for the crypto sector The $50 million
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