Strava acquires Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors
Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap, a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform…
Twitter is now accepting Community Notes contributions from four more countries
Twitter’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, is now open to contributors in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Twitter said over the weekend that it was expanding the contributor…
Microsoft is sunsetting social VR pioneer AltspaceVR
AltspaceVR has had a few close calls over the years, but the company that built virtual social spaces well before “metaverse” was a household word is shuttering for good this…
Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs
Area 120, the Google in-house incubator responsible for products such as Checks, Tables, Stack and ThreadBite, has been significantly affected by broader layoffs at Google parent company Alphabet. A spokesperson…
More universities are banning TikTok from their campus networks and devices
Public universities across a widening swath of U.S. states have banned TikTok in recent months, and two of the country’s largest colleges just followed suit. The University of Texas and…