Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse review – it will make you even more terrified of the internet
A girl was allegedly raped in the metaverse. Is this the beginning of a dark new future?
Nancy Jo Sales
December 2023
It's giving 2023
Marvel, crypto, Tucker Carlson: eight of 2023’s most spectacular downfalls
Experts on tech, politics and culture weigh in on the year the hype faded and what could come next
June 2023
Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life
Mark Zuckerberg’s grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly. Meanwhile, those still existing happily on a virtual world launched 20 years ago may be wondering what all the fuss is about …
May 2023
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it?
The CEO of the social media giant has spent billions – and still no one understands the idea. But now the world’s richest firm could change the game
The networker
A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse
John Naughton
Meta sank tens of billions into its CEO’s virtual reality dream, but what will he do next?
It’s a tough time for Meta. Can AI help make the company relevant again?
Mark Zuckerberg says in earnings call Meta is still devoted to virtual reality even as it bolsters its AI development
April 2023
Meta reports surprisingly strong quarter one earnings after restructuring hiccups
The company posted $28.10bn in revenue and appears to be shifting focus away from the metaverse to artificial intelligence
December 2022
Frazzled Englishwoman, goblin mode, butter boards, cabbage circles – can you spot the odd one out?
Arwa Mahdawi
‘The metaverse will be our slow death!’ Is Facebook losing its $100bn gamble on virtual reality?
November 2022
The metaverse will be a digital graveyard if we let new technologies distract us from today’s problems
Jordan Guiao
The collapse of digital ventures like FTX shows that no amount of hype and starry-eyed proselytising can escape reality
The Guardian view on big tech: pop! goes the bubble
Editorial: The behemoths of Silicon Valley face some serious shrinkage and a reckoning with the societies they work in
Nils Pratley on finance
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse is a joke not shared by investors
Nils Pratley
Meta’s share price is down 73% in 2022 but Facebook investors can’t force the boss to change course
October 2022
Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs
Turkey: new ‘disinformation’ law could jail journalists for three years
September 2022
Could a digital twin of Tuvalu preserve the island nation before it’s lost to the collapsing climate?
With rising seas expected to submerge the nation by 2100, official says ‘we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is, before it disappears’
July 2022
Exit the internet, enter the metaverse – your online future is in 3D
Venture capitalist Matthew Ball’s new book explores the three-dimensional virtual world that is set to supersede the net. What might this alternative digital reality have in store for users?
‘Portals will be as important as the car’: the architects exploring gateways to new dimensions
From Platform 9¾ in Harry Potter to Bill and Ted’s phone booth, a new exhibition about portals explores the ways we’ll soon be moving around the metaverse
‘Frankly it blew my mind’: how Tron changed cinema – and predicted the future of tech
From cyberspace to AI, Steven Lisberger’s 1982 sci-fi classic was way ahead of its time. The team behind it explain how they made a game-changer
June 2022
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TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet
A researcher says Google has created an AI being with smarts and soul, but my own attempt reveals the truth behind those claims. Plus, the latest crypto crash
