Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: After a three-day outage, Roblox says it has begun incrementally restoring service to some players — According to Roblox’s status page, all versions of the game have been down since Oct 28 starting at 7 pm EST — Roblox, one of the most popular games in […]
Monthly Archives: October 2021
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Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Estimate: Apple’s iOS App Tracking Transparency policy has cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube almost $10B in combined ad revenues so far — Forcing apps to ask for permission to track users for advertising purposes leads to big hit for social media platforms
Politico: Industry and government officials say Gaia-X, a project to reduce EU’s cloud dependency on US tech giants, is hamstrung by infighting and bloated bureaucracy — The initiative, meant to boost Europe’s cloud services, is failing to fix the problems it was intended to solve.
Enlarge (credit: Makiko Tanigawa / Getty Images) Island Press is “the nation’s leading publisher on environmental issues.” In its latest release, Thicker than Water, Erica Cirino, a photojournalist and licensed wildlife rehabilitator, explores what becomes of plastic—all 8 billion or so tons of it that humans have manufactured in the […]
Wall Street Journal: Experts say sourcing chips has turned almost into a lottery amid the global chip shortage, as wait times have ballooned to 22 weeks as of October — Nearly a year into the crisis, some customers are finding it is taking months more than expected to get needed […]
(credit: Photograph: The British Museum) A curator exploring the shadowy recesses of the British Museum’s archives recently encountered a ghost—or rather, the world’s oldest image of one, etched onto a 3,500-year-old Babylonian clay tablet. The figure of a tall, emaciated spirit with his hands bound illustrates the text of an […]
Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: Beijing-based Huice, a SaaS provider that helps e-commerce businesses manage orders and more, raises a $312M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — Huice, which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to enable smart retail, has raised $312 million in a Series D round led by […]
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: Apple’s $19 Polishing Cloth has become its most back-ordered new product with shipments delayed until January; source: the company isn’t surprised by the demand — It’s a $19 cloth. — OAKLAND, Calif — Apple this month unveiled an array of new gadgets: more powerful […]
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: BackBox, which provides companies with network automation, security, and management software, raises $32M Series A led by Elsewhere Partners — BackBox, a network automation, security, and management service provider, today announced that it raised $32 million in a series A round led by venture firm Elsewhere […]
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: In 2018, Oculus’ Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook execs laying the foundation for Meta’s ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market — – In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent […]