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Inside Facebook’s struggle to keep young people

The Verge

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. If it doesn’t correct course, the 17-year-old social network could, for the first time, lose out on an entire generation.

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Livestreaming market report: Women increase their presence on Twitch, and everyone’s playing chess

GeekWire

Wired in November noted that substantially more video games featured women in 2020. The comparison between January of 2020 and 2021 paints a stark picture of Twitch’s rise during the COVID pandemic. In general, the livestreaming audience seems to have continued its overall growth since 2020. Twitch streamed over 1.8

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Sony’s Bungie acquisition is all about Fortnite

The Verge

And huge virtual worlds on multiple platforms Microsoft has Minecraft , Epic Games has Fortnite , and Sony now has Destiny. Sony also made a $250 million investment in Fortnite owner Epic Games in 2020, followed by an additional $200 million last year. Destiny has a lot of untapped social potential. Image: Bungie.

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8 Technology Trends of 2019 That You Need to Know to Live an Easier Life

Galido

Immersive Experience through Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have changed the way in which people interact with technological devices, and how they perceive the digital world. However, in comparison to AR, VR is still quite expensive and requires sophisticated use.

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Seattlepi.com will try newsletter strategy in Hearst’s ‘next phase’ for former newspaper website

GeekWire

The rise of local blogs, social media, and now newsletters have chipped away at the audience for major news sites over the past decade. newspapers fell 45% between 2010 and 2020, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. For example, newsroom employment at U.S.

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Did smartphones “destroy” a generation? The debate, explained.

Vox

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This dispute has generated reams of commentary as the media’s middle-aged social media users argue about whether their favorite apps are poisoning their kids.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are incredibly interesting. And nobody in here, few people in here, think it’s acceptable to be tethered to a computer walking in here and sitting down, few people are going to view that it’s acceptable to be enclosed in something, because we’re all social people at heart.

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