Man who gave Mark Zuckerberg the word ‘Metaverse’ and watched him lose  billion, has advice for him: Pick a… – The Times of India

Man who gave Mark Zuckerberg the word ‘Metaverse’ and watched him lose $80 billion, has advice for him: Pick a… – The Times of India

Neal Stephenson, the author who coined “metaverse,” says Meta’s $80 billion VR failure was largely self-inflicted. He argues the real metaverse never needed goggles—Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft already are the metaverse, with hundreds of millions of users to prove it. He also says people will never consistently wear things on their faces. His advice to…

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Roblox implements new age verification for chat features: What the new facial age checks mean for kids, parents and moderators | – The Times of India

Roblox implements new age verification for chat features: What the new facial age checks mean for kids, parents and moderators | – The Times of India

Roblox implements new age verification for chat features Roblox, the global online game and social platform with more than 150 million daily users, has announced a major update to how users can communicate: a new age-based chat system that uses facial age-estimation and other age-verification methods to limit conversations between children and much older users….

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Amazon Web Services outage: What brought the internet down across the world for more than 15 hours – The Times of India

Amazon Web Services outage: What brought the internet down across the world for more than 15 hours – The Times of India

Amazon Web Services experienced a massive 15-hour outage on October 20 that knocked offline thousands of popular applications and websites, from Snapchat and Fortnite to banking apps and government services, before the company announced full restoration of its cloud services.The disruption began around 12:30 p.m. IST and affected more than 1,000 companies globally, with outage-tracking…

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