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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Features coming to Instagram’s new tall profile grid.

Instagram’s chief says the changes reflect the domination of vertical content on the platform, and that highlighted stories should be coming to the grid in the future.

Instagram is also building tools that will allow users to re-order their grids and post to it directly without pushing posts to feeds — but Mosseri says this “may very well change as we iterate over the next couple months.”

A screenshot of an Instagram post where Adam Mosseri explains why the platform introduced its new tall grids feature.
Landscape videos and photos are out, long live vertical-orientation content.
Image: Instagram / Adam Mosseri
Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation

Our tech overlords all have problems, and they want to buy the solutions.

Elizabeth Lopatto
The tech to build the holodeck

Gaussian splatting, a new way of capturing 3D content, is taking the AR / VR industry by storm — and could one day allow anyone to create photorealistic 3D worlds.

Janko Roettgers
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
The buck stops there.

Mark Zuckerberg “blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook” when pledging support to Trump advisors late last year, according to the New York Times.

Here’s Verge alum Casey Newton commenting in his Platfomer newsletter:

[it] comes a few days after Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that companies need more “masculine energy.” And for women in the workplace, few forms of masculine energy are more familiar than a top executive blaming a woman for the fallout of programs and policies that he agreed to and oversaw.

Sounds about right for someone that’s “constitutionally bitchmade,” eh Liz?

Mark blames Sheryl

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