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Microsoft and VMware vet Paul Maritz backs social app built on promise of user privacy

GeekWire

Former VMware CEO and longtime Microsoft executive Paul Maritz is a major investor in True, a social app that vows not to sell or monetize user data. True shows it’s possible to build a social app “not predicated on a business model that requires you to abuse people’s information,” Maritz said.

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No, Mark Zuckerberg, Virtual Reality Goggles Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Gizmodo

In an interview published Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that by the end of this decade, he expects we’ll all have access to virtual reality goggles that will allow us to feel like we’re teleporting into other people’s houses and hanging out.… The billionaires are once again claiming that tech will save us. Read more.

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Facebook is secretly building a smartwatch and planning to sell it next year

The Verge

It also says Facebook is working on building its own operating system for hardware devices and that future iterations of the wearable may run that software instead. The social networking giant’s hardware ambitions are no secret. Facebook declined to comment regarding any planned smartwatch projects.

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Technology Short Take 173

Scott Lowe

Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans has a lovely article on Git commits that is well worth reading. Virtualization Eric Sloof relates his experience setting up ESXi ARM on a Raspberry Pi 5. Feel free to reach out to me via social media; you can find me on Twitter as well as on the Fediverse.

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Why should we trust Facebook to build the metaverse?

Vox

When Mark Zuckerberg announced last year that Facebook was changing its name to Meta and that, within five years, the company would transition from being primarily a social media company to a “metaverse” one , many people were skeptical, confused, or downright scared. It’s not an operating system like Microsoft Windows.

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Best IT and Tech Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019

Galido

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Slashdot is a social news website that originally billed itself as “News for Nerds. CIO Dashboard. 9 to 5 Mac.

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

Vox

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 the next big breakthrough in technology. It’s a joke. It’s a marketing strategy. So what is the metaverse, really?