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Microsoft avoided a round of Big Tech scrutiny. Then it bought a company for $69 billion.

Vox

There’s nothing more metaverse-y than games, where people already create virtual versions of themselves and navigate virtual worlds, often interacting with virtual versions of other, real, people along the way. A judge ordered Microsoft to break up into two different companies: one for the operating system, and one for everything else.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

The legal answer to that question, should it eventually be made by the FTC, will surely run dozens of pages, and be supported by mountains of supporting briefs and other documents. Google and Apple’s COVID-19 exposure notification system was supposed to preserve people’s privacy. Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology ). Things to do.