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1. Facebook plans to hire
10,000 in Europe to build
'metaverse'
Facebook said it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years
to work on a new computing platform that promises to connect people virtually but could raise
concerns about privacy and the social platform gaining more control in people's online lives.
The company said in a blog post Sunday that those high-skilled workers will help build the
metaverse, a futuristic notion for connecting online that uses augmented and virtual reality.
Facebook executives have been touting the metaverse as the next big thing after the mobile
internet, though their track record is spotty on predicting future trends.
Expectations that CEO Mark Zuckerberg made four years ago of taking virtual vacations with
faraway loved ones via a headset or using a smartphone camera to improve an apartment
virtually have not materialised so far.
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