Apple’s privacy push could cost Meta $10 billion in lost 2022 advertising revenue — and that news alone erased $250 billion in Meta’s value. But this leads them to a thought experiment: What would happen to Meta’s and Google’s business models if the privacy invasion behind the companies’ lucrative advertising Read more…
Meta’s stock plunged 26% Thursday — its biggest one-day drop ever, lowering its marketing valuation by more than $230 billion. And then on Friday it dropped just a little bit more. User growth has hit a ceiling. The salad days of Facebook’s wild user growth are over. Even though the Read more…
“The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Digital Currency Initiative have come up with an initial design for a central bank digital currency,” reports Yahoo Finance. Reuters cautions that the newly-released research does not suggest that the U.S. central bank will move toward launching a Read more…
“People are still paying between $5,000 and $50,000 to attend the annual flagship TED conference. In 2021,” notes The Drift magazine, noting last year’s event was held in Monterey, California. “Amid wildfires and the Delta surge, its theme was ‘the case for optimism.’” The magazine makes the case that over Read more…
“A pre-pandemic policy on airport usage is pressuring airlines to keep ‘ghost flights’ in the air,” Wired reported this week — adding “The climate impact is massive.” Lufthansa, Germany’s national airline, which is based in Frankfurt, has admitted to running 21,000 empty flights this winter, using its own planes and Read more…
CNN reports that wastewater-based epidemiology “has proven to be so reliable in dozens of pilot projects across the U.S. that the government has invested millions to create the National Wastewater Surveillance System, or NWSS, a network of 400 testing sites spread across 19 states that is coordinated by the U.S. Read more…
A few years ago, a novel measurement technique showed that protons are probably smaller than had been assumed since the 1990s. The discrepancy surprised the scientific community; some researchers even believed that the Standard Model of particle physics would have to be changed. Physicists at the University of Bonn and Read more…