October 30, 20210CommentsRoblox has been down since about 7PM ET Oct. 28, with some speculating that the outage may be related to a Chipotle promotion, but the company denies a link (Tom Warren/The Verge)
October 30, 20210CommentsActiv Surgical harnesses AI and machine learning to collaborate with surgeons
October 30, 20210CommentsQ&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge’s 10th anniversary, tech media’s advance from early breathless gadget reviews, subject-source relationships, and more (Delia Cai/Vanity Fair)
October 30, 20210CommentsHow the rhetoric surrounding techno-globalism has shifted, from countries advocating for a free, open internet to imposing limits to protect national interests (Foreign Affairs)
October 30, 20210CommentsMeta’s promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break (Ethan Zuckerman/The Atlantic)
October 30, 20210CommentsMeta is just playing catch-up as Roblox, Steam VR, VRChat, and other platforms have already developed metaverse-like experiences (Gene Park/Washington Post)
October 30, 20210CommentsAnalysis: Florida startups have raised about $1.3B in Series A and Series B funding so far in 2021, which is more than quadruple the $277M raised in all of 2020 (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
October 30, 20210CommentsAdvocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years (Damon Beres/Wired)
October 30, 20210CommentsIndian online beauty products retailer Purplle raises a $75M Series E led by Kedaara Capital at a $630M valuation (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
October 30, 20210CommentsChinese smart home devices maker Aqara raises a $155M Series C from investors including state-backed Shenzhen Capital and China Telecom (Liya Su/DealStreetAsia)