Meta Vice President Says Company Gearing Up for Futuristic Metaverse

Clegg has resonated with Mark Zuckerberg's vision of making the company ready for the upcoming next gen of the internet, which will also have a virtual universe for people to work and socialise. https://ift.tt/3jXI0WQ

Clubhouse Adds Support for 13 Languages, Including 5 Indian Languages

Clubhouse on Wednesday announced the addition of 13 new languages on the platform. The languages include French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Portuguese... https://ift.tt/3EHlv0s

Tesla Recalls Nearly 12,000 US Vehicles Over Software Bug

Tesla is recalling nearly 12,000 US vehicles sold since 2017 because a communication error may cause a false forward-collision warning or unexpected activation of the emergency brakes, the National... https://ift.tt/3CL1FRo

Notable, which makes RPA-based tools to speed up healthcare administrative tasks, raises a $100M Series B led by Iconiq Growth at a $600M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Notable, which makes RPA-based tools to speed up healthcare administrative tasks, raises a $100M Series B led by Iconiq Growth at a $600M valuation  —  Timing is everything in healthcare — yet too often diagnoses, treatments and procedures are held up by paperwork, administrative red tape between patients …

Sources: Facebook has done little to act on the Islamophobic "Love Jihad" conspiracy theory on its platform in India due to "political sensitivities" (Billy Perrigo/TIME)

Billy Perrigo / TIME:
Sources: Facebook has done little to act on the Islamophobic “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory on its platform in India due to “political sensitivities”  —  In a video posted to Facebook in November 2020, an extremist priest called for Hindus to rise up and begin killing Muslims in India.

Faze Technologies, which wants to launch a Cricket NFT marketplace and build "the metaverse for cricket", raises a $17.4M seed led by Tiger Global (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

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Faze Technologies, which wants to launch a Cricket NFT marketplace and build “the metaverse for cricket”, raises a $17.4M seed led by Tiger Global  —  Tiger Global led a $17.4 million seed round for Faze Technologies, the company announced Wednesday.