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Report: Some hospitals are giving private data to Facebook

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are allegedly sending private data to Facebook, an investigation by The Markup found. The report was co-published with STAT , a publication about health, medicine, and the life sciences. — The Markup. About a third of the top hospitals in the U.S. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab).

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Data-Informed Predictive Policing Was Heralded as Less Biased. Is It?

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This article was originally published on The Markup and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Read more.

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How Many VR Headsets Did Meta Sell in Q3?

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Third-party reseller markups aren’t included. As you may have heard, Meta announced Q3 earnings last week. Among other things, Meta Reality Labs’ (MRL) represented a $3.96 billion expense. There, the message to investors is to stick with Meta while it builds, and cements a central position within, computing’s next era. That brings us to $201.9

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Facebook crypto scammers pose as Tesla, Amazon, and even Facebook

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“Meta Tokens” and other tech company “coins” The ads The Markup found—about 20—are from pages with names like “Metaverse,” “Web 3.0,” The Markup found one ad, which promoted “the birth of META Token,” after it was served directly to a reporter’s personal account.

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Did Meta Sell 5 Million Quest 2s Last Year?

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As you may have heard, Meta announced it’s Q4 and full-year 2021 earnings last week. And the results weren’t great. Most impactful on Meta’s stock price and subsequent tech-press handwringing was negative user growth for the first time for its flagship property, Facebook. For the first time, Meta broke out MRL revenue. billion in the full year.

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Did Meta Sell 1.5 Million Quest 2s in Q1?

ARVR

As you may have heard, Meta announced Q1 earnings last week. And the results were better than the previous quarter, when it announced negative user growth for the first time for its flagship property, Facebook. To its relief, user growth moved back into positive territory in Q1. Back to the good news, MRL top-line revenue is growing.

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How Many Quest 2s Did Meta Sell in Q2?

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Third-party reseller markups aren’t included. As you may have heard, Meta announced Q2 earnings last week. Among other things, Meta Reality Labs’ (MRL) represented a $2.8 billion expense. There, the message to investors is to stick with Meta while it builds, and cements a central position within, computing’s next era. That brings us to $320.20

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