Month: October 2021
Amazon will spend ‘several billion dollars’ to avoid holiday shipping delays
Amazon wants to avoid holiday shipping delays as much as you do. The company said today that it plans to spend “several billion dollars” to avoid problems during the holidays, which might extend from product delivery issues to keeping items in stock. The money will be spent on increased pay…
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Amazon wants to avoid holiday shipping delays as much as you do. The company said today that it plans to spend “several billion dollars” to avoid problems during the holidays, which might extend from product delivery issues to keeping items in stock. The money will be spent on increased pay…
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Facebook Connect: all the news about ‘Meta’ and Mark Zuckerberg’s VR dream
The company unveiled a new name and vision for the future in its keynote Contributors: Verge Staff Facebook held its virtual reality labs Connect event on Thursday, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would be rebranding as Meta and showed off his vision of a metaverse that inspired…
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Look Over Here, Kids, It’s the Metaverse
Facebook’s vision for the future of computing comes with some shiny new branding. Source
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New Biden plan would give e-bike buyers up to $1,500 in tax credits
There’s good news in the latest version of the White House budget deal: the proposed federal tax credit for new electric bike purchases has survived the most recent round of Congressional bloodletting. Not only that, but it’s been restored to its former glory of 30 percent, after the House of…
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With Facebook’s change to Meta, what’s the new Big Tech acronym?
The company formerly known as Facebook just revealed its new name, Meta. And while that change brings a whole lot of questions, there’s one that many of us at The Verge have been pondering for about 30 minutes: how does the Meta name change the acronym used to refer to…
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