The Weekly Whatever: Dead cat bounce
Quiz
Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse had a feature that would reward users for making content, with the company taking a cut. Guess how much revenue it pulled in. Answer at the end...
Assorted news
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Scientists confirm that time is speeding up, and it used to be much slower when the universe was young.
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Maybe that's why a library book was returned to the library in New Bedford Massachusetts 119 years overdue.
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New Zealand cat-hunting competition will no longer allow children to take part.
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A man who tried to kill the Queen with a crossbow was encouraged to do so by an AI chatbot.
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UK immigration minister orders murals to be painted over at a center for lone children seeking asylum, as the decor might be too welcoming to traumatized children.
$8chan
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Having successfully sued to force ex-employees into arbitration rather than class action, Twitter decides it doesn't want to pay to take part in the arbitration and would have preferred a collective lawsuit.
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Elon's very upset that so many staff he sacked from Twitter have gone to work for Meta to help build Threads.
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Elon's also suing Twitter's law firm for allegedly billing the company too much after forcing him to buy it.
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Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for companies willing to pay $42,000 a month to use it.
Answer
- Meta's Horizon Worlds pulled in $470 of revenue worldwide. No, that's not a typo.