Elon Musk’s management over Twitter has been an entire mess

Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has not been clean. The chaos, which began with the abrupt sacking of 3700 Twitter staff adopted by the uncertain rollout of its blue tick subscription has proven the platform and its new management in a nasty mild. Musk’s plan is to show Twitter into the digital “city sq.” the place the problems of at this time will probably be debated in a extra candid vogue – unfiltered, respecting one another’s opinions.

However in Twitter, content material moderation has turn out to be a difficult factor and nobody actually is aware of when guidelines will change once more. The latest suspension of high-profile journalists’ accounts (later reinstated) exhibits that Twitter within the Musk period has turn out to be predictable and tied to the whims and fancies of its new proprietor.

Musk could need to be seen as a champion of free speech however he’s the identical man who has additionally eliminated critics of his insurance policies from the corporate. All this has impacted Twitter’s credibility and has it watching an unsure future. If Twitter fails, it may very well be the start of the decline of the social media we all know at this time. And if it will get saved by Musk, it’d find yourself being a unique beast altogether.

Meta’s Horizon Worlds is an app that enables customers to collect with others, play video games and work together in a digital house. (Picture credit score: Meta)

The world isn’t prepared for Zuckerberg’s Metaverse, at the very least, for now

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in a spot. The billionaire has his job reduce out attempting to take his firm out of the radar of regulators and legislators each within the US and Europe. However he appears extra engrossed with experiments across the Metaverse. However to this point, the gamble on the Metaverse, which could be loosely outlined as a digital world the place folks dwell, work and play, have been a giant flop.

Meta has misplaced a staggering sum of money on the alternate actuality platform already. However it’s unable to create a sticky product for its customers. The issue isn’t the intention; it’s simply that solely a restricted variety of folks need to work with a VR headset on or socialise with mates in a digital world. That’s scary, as a result of Zuckerberg spent billions on the Metaverse pondering over time folks would work together as cartoon avatars in 3D social areas with a VR headset. That’s removed from the unique imaginative and prescient Zuckerberg had about how the Metaverse would transform. Zuckerberg was so assured in regards to the Metaverse that he modified the identification of the corporate final 12 months, from a social media agency to “a metaverse firm”.

Wall Avenue, nonetheless, didn’t like the trail Zuckerberg selected to be on. The corporate’s advert enterprise is quick shrinking and the cut-throat competitors from TikTok has made Fb a much less buzzing social media platform. Regardless of uncertainties, Meta remains to be a mammoth firm however the fortunes of Zuckerberg’s social media empire are altering quick. Meta, as of now, is extra weak to a fast-changing tech panorama than some other silicon valley main. It not too long ago laid off 13 per cent of its employees or greater than 11,000 staff.

As a substitute of fixing the issue of its core enterprise, Meta is leaping from one enterprise and venturing into one other one. That has put a query mark on Zuckerberg and the imaginative and prescient he has for the corporate. With a number of high-profile exits Meta has seen prior to now few months, consultants paint a not-so-positive outlook for the corporate that kick-started the social media revolution.

All tese years Amazon is promoting its {hardware} merchandise at a price to seize the market share. (Picture credit score: Anuj Bhatia/Indian Categorical)

Failure of Amazon Alexa

When Amazon not too long ago introduced a plan to put off some 10,000 staff, one of many areas hardest hit was the Alexa voice assistant unit. It could come as a shock to many however the Alexa division hasn’t made cash in years. Amazon’s enterprise mannequin to promote {hardware} at first low-cost price and push Alexa voice assistant by means of good audio system has price the corporate dearly.

On paper, Amazon could have dominated the good speaker market and that finally helped Alexa to turn out to be the hub for IoT gadgets. However the technique has not paid off within the a few years Alexa has been round. The preliminary concept was that folks would store extra on Amazon by means of the Alexa voice assistant.

In actuality, nonetheless, Alexa was largely used for inconsequential conversations like offering “climate forecasts” or “taking part in music”. Amazon made no cash from both the Alexa or the {hardware} it sells at a subsidised price. The dearth of monetisation alternatives and unclear path have made Amazon lose curiosity in Alexa.

The brand new iPad (2022) has been criticised for odd design selections. (Picture credit score: Nandagopal Rajan/Indian Categorical)

Apple’s Tenth gen iPad seems to be a ‘complicated’ product

No person had anticipated Apple to go horribly flawed with its entry-level iPad. It has at all times been a tried-and-tested machine, an iPad designed for college students and mainstream customers. However the finish product was much less satisfying, uncommon for an Apple machine. The Tenth-generation iPad got here with a recent design that places it nearer to the iPad Air, a sooner A14 Bionic chipset and new equipment. All sounds good, proper? However, when you begin dissecting the machine, its flaws begin showing.

The brand new iPad solely works with the first technology Apple Pencil. However, because it contains a USB-C port as an alternative of Lightning, you want an adapter to cost it with the brand new iPad. The Tenth technology iPad additionally doesn’t work with the Magic Keyboard. As a substitute, Apple has launched the Magic Keyboard Folio, a brand new keyboard accent unique to the entry-level iPad.

This new iPad is significantly dearer (beginning at Rs 44,900) than the ninth technology iPad it replaces, which surprisingly hasn’t been discontinued and continues to be obtainable out there.

One wonders how the brand new iPad bought cleared internally regardless of the odd design selections. After a very long time, we now have seen an Apple product that’s irritating and underwhelming.

Bankman-Fried’s fall has shocked the crypto world. (Erika P. Rodriguez/The New York Occasions)

Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX collapse

The chapter of the crypto large FTX and the arrest of its founder Sam Bankman-Fried has despatched shockwaves within the crypto world. As soon as seen because the rising celebrity in crypto circles, FTX rapidly grew to be the third-largest trade by quantity below the 30-year-old Bankman-Fried. Low buying and selling charges, high-profile acquisitions and aggressive advertising methods all helped FTX to develop exponentially prior to now few years.

However the empire Bankman created began to fall when his firm was accused of utilizing clients’ deposits to fund bets at Fried’s hedge fund, Alameda Analysis, a violation of US securities regulation. The collapse of FTX has introduced extra scepticism for cryptocurrencies at a time when the business has seen a justifiable share of volatility and turmoil amid a pointy decline in worth for bitcoin and different digital property.

The FTX collapse teaches traders that there’ll at all times be excessive threat in an unregulated monetary business. The controversy about how cryptocurrency needs to be labeled and controlled has intensified amid the FTX collapse.