There are at least three major potential definitions of the metaverse, this hot trendy thing that Facebook is investing $5 billion into and hiring 10,000 technologists for. First is Ready Player One: ...

The Metaverse has been making waves in the tech world as the next big thing in the evolution of the internet. But what exactly is the Metaverse, and why is it generating so much excitement? At its ...

Like religious prophets, Big Tech luminaries are ­preaching the coming of the next internet. According to their gospel—blog posts by tech companies and venture capitalists alike—tomorrow’s cyberspace ...

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I was asked recently whether I viewed the metaverse as the next iteration of the internet, as we march towards Web 5.0. This got me thinking about the idealistic read-only world wide web Tim ...

The future of the internet is going to be virtual and "Meta," the company known to the public as Facebook says, believing that 1 billion people will be working and playing in the immersive, ...

What is this so-called metaverse everyone keeps raving about? On the surface, it sounds like a quality piece of attainable technology, a literal melting pot of interconnected ideas, bringing together ...

Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies. For example, the algorithms that automatically make decisions about who gets to see what content or how ...

NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, are the key to the metaverse, experts say. With the digital tokens, people are becoming owners on the internet, instead of simply renters. The world is still only in the ...

The metaverse is reportedly a concept that sits well with science fiction, with a lot of people in the tech industry actually envisioning it as the internet's successor. Companies just like Facebook ...