Oct 28th 2021
Tech News Weekly 207
Facebook's New Name is Meta
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Mikah Sargent
What is the Metaverse, Facebook Papers, Big Tech Earnings, Android 12L
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Alex Kantrowitz
- Alex Kantrowitz from the Big Technology podcast discusses the Facebook Papers, how the consortium needs to be dissolved, and helps break the big news that the company is changing its name to Meta.
- Mikah walks through the earnings week and how Apple's privacy changes affected some companies worse than others.
- Jason introduces the latest version of Android and it's not the one that released last week. Android 12L is all about larger screen devices.
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Links
- I’m in the Consortium Possessing the Leaked Facebook Documents. Let’s Dissolve It
- Facebook Is Adding a Mixed Reality Platform to Oculus Quest
- Oculus Users Are Getting a New Metaverse Home
- Why Apple’s Privacy Changes Hurt Snap and Facebook but Benefited Google
- Android 12 Is So Last Week: Meet Android 12l, Now in Developer Preview