for users to interact without profile pictures. and disney is the latest massive corporation to show interest in the metaverse, appointing long term employee mike white as senior vp for next generation storytelling and consumer experiences. meta, the company that owns facebook, is to pay $90 million to settle a privacy lawsuit over tracking users without their knowledge. the social media giant who this week rebranded its newsfeed denied wrongdoing but settled to avoid the costs and risks of a trial. next up, if you want to know exactly how stressed you are, new wearable tech that looks a bit like a smartwatch can tell you. researchers at ucla made this device which uses sweat to measure the level of cortisol while being worn. and, finally, more private astronauts are hoping to boldly go up but this time outside the spaceship as billionaire jared isaacman filed flight plans that include the first ever commercial spacewalk.
robotic systems like this could free up staff to work directly in patient care where the human touch can really make a difference. hello, it is time for your weekly 92nd tech round up. it was the week twitter will expand its safety mode feature which lets users temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets. dating site tinder goes retro and introduces blind dates for users to interact without profile pictures. and disney is the latest massive corporation to show interest in the matter verse, appointing long term employee mike white as senior vp for next generation storytelling and consumer experiences. meta, the company that owns facebook, is to pay $90 million to settle a privacy lawsuit over tracking users without their knowledge. the social media giant who this week rebranded its newsfeed denied wrongdoing but settled to avoid the costs and risks of a trial.
and in terms of what boosted the number, furniture sales were big and vehicle sales and it has been incredibly hard to get your hands on a car because of the supply chain issues so there is a specific factor affecting these sales numbers but overall, it was encouraging to see that the consumer remains strong. now, to your point, john, about inflation, it is a big question moving forward is, if we see prices continue to rise, will this dent consumer demand? and that remains to be seen. another quick one, google announced yesterday it is adopting new privacy restrictions that will cut tracking across apps on its android devices. we saw the apple ios did something similar. could these changes affect big companies that have relied on tracking users across apps for advertising? well, jonathan, what you gist flagged, we ve seen a very similar move from apple and when meta came out with their earnings, formally facebook, we saw meta say that these apple privacy changes significantly
really make a difference. hello, it is time for your weekly 90 second tech round up. it was the week twitter will expand its safety mode feature which lets users temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets. dating site tinder goes retro and introduces blind dates for users to interact without profile pictures. and disney is the latest massive corporation to show interest in the metaverse, appointing long term employee mike white as senior vp for next generation storytelling and consumer experiences. meta, the company that owns facebook, is to pay $90 million to settle a privacy lawsuit over tracking users without their knowledge. the social media giant who this week rebranded its newsfeed denied wrongdoing but settled to avoid the costs and risks of a trial. next up, if you want to know exactly how stressed you are, new wearable tech that looks a bit like a smartwatch
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