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Meta wants to track your eye movements and facial expressions as you roam the metaverse, patents suggest

1 day ago | Travel

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a leading advocate of the metaverse. Facebook Meta was recently granted dozens of patents involving metaverse technology, the Financial Times...
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Meta's VR division is reportedly under investigation by the FTC

2 days ago | Travel

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. AMY OSBORNE/AFP via Getty Images Meta's VR division is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, Bloomberg reports. Sources told Bloomberg...
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Apple is requiring workers receive Covid vaccine boosters as employers start mandating the shots amid the surge in Omicron cases

2 days ago | Travel | 3 articles

Apple is requiring employees to get COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. Angela Weiss/Getty Images Employees must submit proof of COVID-19 boosters or be required to take tests to...
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Meta Sued for $3.2 Billion USD Over Claim That U.K. Facebook Users Were “Exploited”

2 days ago | Fashion | 2 articles

Meta has been hit with a $3.2 billion USD class action lawsuit, The Guardian reported. The suit alleges that the company breached competition law by exploiting the data of 44...
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How many Instagram followers you need to start getting paid

4 days ago | Travel

Bethany Everett-Ratcliffe has 16,000 followers and makes some of her income through affiliate links. Screenshot/Instagram/ twentysomethingplus A couple thousand followers on...
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The metaverse will be buzzing in 2022

4 days ago | Business - News | 2 articles

Leaders across diverse industries - including blockchain, gaming, retail, and health care - are attempting to understand the metaverse.
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Facebook faces $3bn+ legal action over dominance

4 days ago | News

The UK case is based on company's historic data-collection practices Social media giant Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, faces a class action lawsuit in Britain, seeking...
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Silicon Valley says kids over the age of 13 can handle the big, bad world of social media. Experts say that's the result of a 'problematic' 1990s internet law

4 days ago | Travel | 2 articles

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo Facebook and its social media peers require users to be at least 13 years old to use their sites. That age traces back...
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Judge rejects Facebook's request to dismiss FTC antitrust complaint

6 days ago | News

The decision allows federal prosecutors to try to prove their allegations that Meta has illegally abused a monopoly in the marketplace for social media.
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The FTC can move forward with its bid to make Meta sell Instagram and WhatsApp, judge rules

7 days ago | Travel

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust case against Facebook in August. Facebook's parent company Meta asked for...
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Florida Health Official Suspended For Encouraging Staff To Get COVID Vaccine

Raul Pino, director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, was put on leave after he sent an email to staff critical of their vaccination rate. Read more ...

UK inflation hits 30-year high

The cost of living in Britain rises to its highest level since 1992 Inflation in the UK hit an annual rate of 5.4% in December, official data cited by Reuters shows. The... Read more ...

How Biden's first year became a tale of two presidencies

One year ago, President Joe Biden stood in front of a U.S. Capitol that still bore the wounds of an insurrectionist siege, taking the oath of office at a time when the nation... Read more ...

New York AG Acts To Compel Trumps To Testify In Financial Fraud Case

Letitia James said her office has “significant evidence” in its case against the Trump Organization and is turning up the heat on Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Read more ...

Influential fashion journalist André Leon Talley dies at 73

André Leon Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine, has died. He was a regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe. Read more ...

Inmates were unknowingly given ivermectin to treat COVID-19, new lawsuit says

Four inmates at an Arkansas jail have filed a lawsuit after they said they were unknowingly prescribed ivermectin to treat their COVID-19. Read more ...

Users encounter issues after feds launch free COVID-19 test website

There were some reports of issues relating to the website's address verification tool, which was apparently erroneously enforcing the four-per-household cap. Read more ...

Superdry is back with their infamous Lunar New Year collection

2022 officially marks the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese Lunar Zodiac Calendar and famed clothing brand Superdry are celebrating with a special 19-piece collection that... Read more ...

EMILY's List Threatens To Pull Support For Kyrsten Sinema Over Voting Rights

The group said that Sinema's stance on not changing filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation “undermines the foundations of our democracy.” Read more ...

Jan. 6 committee on verge of obtaining some records Trump has tried to shield

The Jan. 6 select committee is on the verge of obtaining several pages of Donald Trump's White House records that the former president has tried to shield from congressional... Read more ...