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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    Not a great year for Metaverse Fashion Week.

    I missed this news last week, but total attendance to Metaverse Fashion Week fell 76 percent year-over-year, reports The Block:

    Fashion Week attendance on Decentraland dropped to 26,000 from 108,000. Barely more than 1,000 people were online simultaneously during the four-day event.

    I’m not surprised — the event was pretty bad.

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    Jay Peters
    Rumors about the iPhone 15 Pro’s volume buttons are changing again.

    According to MacRumors, a button will indeed replace the mute switch, but the long-rumored unified volume rocker isn’t happening. Instead, the iPhone 15 Pro line will apparently have two separate volume buttons. The news follows analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s report that Apple would not use solid-state buttons for the volume and mute buttons.

    Basically, it seems like the only major difference to expect from that side of your iPhone is a mute button. Hopefully Apple treats it like the Apple Watch Ultra’s Action Button.

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    Jay Peters
    Maybe Twitter shouldn’t have shut down Revue?

    Twitter wants to let users offer newsletters as part of the company’s rebranded Subscriptions offering. That would have been a lot easier to do if it hadn’t just closed its own newsletter platform!

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    Jay Peters
    Seriously, just buy the Brother laser printer everyone has.

    This one. Otherwise, you might have to deal with this cat-and-mouse game from hell.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    You can now play all of Half-Life: Alyx without a VR headset.

    And it’s all thanks to the new “NoVR” mod.

    Friend of The Verge Cameron Faulkner wrote about the experience, and after reading his article, I really want to try it out, especially since I still haven’t actually played the game. The mod apparently even works on Steam Deck!