Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was “shocked” when she heard the company planned to hire 10,000 engineers in Europe to work on the “metaverse,” a version of the internet based on virtual and ...

To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

The metaverse sits at the intersection of numerous different technologies and objectives. For the former, developments in VR, ...

(ticker: META) in October 2021, many investors began to realize just how transformative the metaverse could be. The metaverse ...

A disastrous Q3 earnings report has left many wondering whether Meta's big gamble on the metaverse will ever actually pay off. Reading time 11 minutes Well, Meta sure is in a bit of a mess. The ...

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, is as close to making the metaverse a household name as he did Facebook itself. For now, metaverse-related investments have been big money losers. (Photo by ANDREW ...

While everyone’s attention is currently focused on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, it bears repeating that this the worst place Meta/Facebook has been in for an extremely long time, driven in part by ...