House committee investigating Jan. 6 subpoenas Meta, YouTube, Twitter and Reddit

The House committee leading the investigation into the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas to four major tech companies Thursday. January 6 select committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) sent letters to YouTube parent company Alphabet, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, Reddit and Twitter demanding for those companies to provide […]

UK class action lodged against Meta seeks $3.1B for breach of competition law

A competition legal expert, backed by a powerful litigation fund, is set to mount a multibillion-dollar class action suit against Facebook/Meta for breach of competition law on the basis that it abused its dominance of social networking in the U.K. for several years. If successful, the action would see Facebook having to pay $3.1 billion […]

Second Life’s creator is returning to advise the original metaverse company

The creator of one of the earliest and most enduringly iconic virtual worlds is returning to his roots. Second Life’s founder Philip Rosedale will rejoin the company he founded in 1999 as a strategic advisor after High Fidelity, the spatial audio company Rosedale co-founded in 2013, invested in Second Life’s developer Linden Lab. The deal […]

Meta shuts down its experimental video speed-dating service, Sparked

Meta is shutting down a video speed-dating service it had tested over a good part of last year, the company informed the service’s users via a recent email. Last April, the company formerly known as Facebook confirmed it was testing a new dating service called Sparked, which was developed by its in-house incubator, the NPE […]

ESA、E3 2022 のリアル開催を中止。オンライン開催は2021年と同様、開催へ

 ゲーム見本市 E3 を主催する ESA は現地時間の6日、E3 2022 のリアル開催を COVID-19 の感染再拡大に伴い、開催中止すると発表した。

それによると、ESA は世界最大のゲーム見本市 E3 の今年版 E3 2022 のリアル開催に向けて準備を進めていたものの、COVID-19 の感染再拡大に伴い、リアル開催を中止し、E3 2021 と同様、オンライン開催することで最終調整することが分かった。E3 のオンライン開催は、2020年の E3 2020 , 2021年の E3 2021…