The metaverse explained, and how it could impact our everyday lives in the future

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By now, you've probably heard of the "metaverse." But despite all the hype, the metaverse might still be a little confusing. So, what is the metaverse? And what type of impact could it have on our everyday lives?

Threads Update Finally Brings a Proper Following Feed to the 'Twitter Killer' App

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Threads users are asking for new feature updates and it seems Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking their opinions into account. The app’s update will include a “Following” feed and “Translations” which will register the original language and translate it to the language settings of the user reading it, Meta announced on…

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TikTok Is Going to Sell Cheap Junk in Competition With Shein and Temu

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TikTok is set to launch an e-commerce platform to sell Chinese-made goods to its millions of American users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

Why Threads will never be the new Twitter

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Threads doesn't have any of the magic that made Twitter popular in the first place.

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Meet your new neighbor: A data center powering the AI boom

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Elon Musk's resuscitated Twitter Notes feature sure sounds a lot like something Facebook did in 2006

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We'll give this one to Zuck, who, to be fair, did come up with the same idea 17 years earlier.

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Threads use is down to about 6 minutes a day — plummeting from 21 minutes when it first launched

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The Threads app and Adam Mosseri.

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Llama copyright drama: Meta stops disclosing what data it uses to train the company's giant AI models

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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One trader is so bullish Meta's stock is going to keep skyrocketing, they bet $40 million on thousands of trades

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One trader is so bullish Meta's stock is going to keep skyrocketing, they bet $40 million on thousands of trades.

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Meta Told to Hand Over Threads Content Moderation Documents to Congress

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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has issued an additional subpoena directing Meta to hand over documents surrounding content moderation on its newest app, Threads.

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