So how is Facebook going to make money from the metaverse? By harvesting your micro-expressions then selling that data to advertisers.

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Microsoft’s antitrust game: its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is wickedly strategic and shows the conundrum of antitrust regulation.

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BOOK REVIEWS: making sense of Covid using some data

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15 years ago, the iPhone created “Big Tech”

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Beware of Geeks bearing gifts: from Antikythera to AI – tracking the labyrinthine path of technology’s progress

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Amazon: America and the world cannot stop falling under the company’s growing shadow

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The Language Machines : a deep look at GPT-3, an AI that has no understanding of what it’s saying.

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BOOK REVIEW: how civilization broke our hunter-gather brains and work created so much discontent

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Monopolies really know best: just ask Amazon

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“52 things I learned in 2021” (courtesy of Tom Whitwell)

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