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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

GeekWire

Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. Pearson joined AWS in 2019 after 28 years at Intel. Former Tune CEO Peter Hamilton.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

The Verge

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. It’s also now illegal for the city government to enter into contracts that permit the use of facial recognition technology.

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