It’s $1,500, and you can get one on Meta’s website, Best Buy, and other retailers. Alex Heath, Adi Robertson, and I all have review units, and on a first impression: it’s an incredibly refined piece of hardware, but the display isn’t as much of an improvement over the Quest 2 as you’d expect.
Check back for our review shortly — we have to have a few meetings in the metaverse first.
You can use a mouse with any Android phone just by plugging it in but let’s take a moment to applaud this entire situation. Hard to say exactly what phone we’re looking at here but there’s a holepunch front camera on the left side, so our best guess is either a OnePlus or Oppo. Tweet at me if you figure it out!
We were promised self-driving cars doing robot surgery in rural America, but so far 5G has mostly been meh. That’ll change next year, according to AT&T’s CTO Jeremy Legg.
“The cool stuff inside of 5G is really going to begin to happen this coming year. That’s because of something in tech land that is called the standalone 5G core. That’s a routing engine for 5G. This is creating the ability to have services that didn’t exist in 3G and 4G.”
We’ll believe it when we see it!
[Fierce Wireless]
Signal messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp. Here’s how.
I spent hours in The Print Shop as a kid; it truly was a perfect piece of software.
The idea here is that an attacker would tamper with the early results sent via insecure modem, and then no one would trust the final certified results. I’d say that was a fanciful scheme but… well, shit.
“In the current hyperpolarized atmosphere, modems in voting machines are now not only a potential target for cyberattacks, but, perhaps more importantly, information operations seeking to cast doubt on the legitimacy of U.S. elections,” said David Levine, a former election director for Ada County, Idaho.
Apple’s foray into producing MLB broadcasts has had some pretty spotty moments, so Eddy Cue saying they would only take Sunday Ticket if the company is allowed to have ”great ideas” is pretty strange. The bar is: don’t crash every weekend!
Meta’s attempt to buy Within, the company behind the great VR workout app Supernatural, ran into an immediate FTC lawsuit seeking to block the deal because, well, Zuck keeps buying up everything in VR. Meta has always said the entire argument is bad because the VR market is so nascent, and now it’s filed to have the case thrown out.
We’ll see — but in the meantime you can listen to Within CEO Chris Milk talk about Supernatural on Decoder.
Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw has a deep dive into the state of Netflix, which still sits atop the streaming TV charts most weeks, but is in the middle of a huge shift from growing users to extracting more revenue from the huge user base it already has. The two biggest plans, from CFO Spencer Neumann? Ads, and cracking down on password sharing.
(Disclosure: We made a Netflix show, which is good and you should watch it.)
[Bloomberg.com]
