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Metaverse is the latest buzzword in the technology industry, and many companies are considering it as the next big thing. But the problem is that no one knows the Metaverse’s purpose and how it will find its place in the customer’s life. These are some questions that even Meta employees whose company is building Metaverse can’t answer. The Verge has obtained this information from an internal source within the company. Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, wrote a memo to employees on September 15, saying the team should stay in a “quality lockdown” to “ensure that we fix our quality gaps and performance issues before we open up Horizon to more users....

The December SMR is initially available for the carrier-locked versions of the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra in the US. Rolling out with firmware version G98*USQS3GVKA, the update comes shortly after the Android 13 release and expectedly doesn’t bring any new features or changes. It’s all about the latest vulnerability fixes. Samsung has already updated these phones to the new security release in most international markets. The unlocked units in the US should join the party soon....

When the election comes, our inboxes are bombarded with tons of emails from candidates’ campaigns. They ask for a vote or promote their plans. These emails are as worthless as the candidates’ promises and do not find a better destination than the trash. Gmail traditionally sends political campaign emails to the spam folder, but it seems it wants to take a new approach. According to the report, Google recently filed a request to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), asking for permission not to send political campaign emails to the spam folder....

Google is great with software but not with software support. It promises three years of software support for its Pixel phones. While that’s better than some, it’s still behind the likes of Samsung. It’s also lightyears behind Apple. Since the Pixel 3 officially lost support, the writing has been on the wall for the Pixel 3a phones for a while. Google just dropped the Pixel 3a phones from the beta program Google just dropped the Pixel 3a phones from the beta program...

Google Pay has been at the top of the news during the last few months. First, Google announced it will abandon the plans for Plex bank accounts. The goal of the project was to offer bank accounts to Google users. However, the Plex was buried in the graveyard of Google’s dead services. Bill Ready, the company’s president of commerce, said Google has “no intention of being a bank.” Now, Google is considering new policies and strategies for Pay....