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LEGS: The corporate previously often known as Fb held its Meta Join convention this week, the place it introduced all the pieces from a $1,500 VR headset to a work-focused partnership with Microsoft. Right here’s the complete roundup of all of the information. The factor Zuckerberg appeared most enthusiastic about? His metaverse is getting legs.

Hulu’s worth bump: One other yr, one other Hulu worth hike. This week the ad-supported plan acquired bumped from $7 to $8 per 30 days, whereas the ad-free plan went from $13 to $15 per 30 days.

Microsoft x DALL-E: AI instruments that may generate new photographs from textual content prompts are beginning to go mainstream, with Microsoft saying this week that it’ll combine DALL-E 2 into at the very least two of its apps.

OG App will get KO’d: The “OG App” promised to offer an ad-free/suggestion-free Instagram expertise extra like that of yesteryear. Sadly, it didn’t have Instagram’s permission to take action. Instagram proprietor Meta shortly introduced plans to take “all acceptable enforcement actions” in opposition to the app, which has now been pulled from each Google Play and the iOS App Retailer.

Google’s video calling cubicles get actual: Final yr, Google introduced Venture Starline, a wild, experimental “video-calling sales space” that makes use of 3D imagery, depth sensors, and light-weight area shows to make a video chat really feel extra like an in-person dialog. Till now, Starline sales space prototypes have been hidden away solely in Google’s workplaces; they’re now increasing that to incorporate “the workplaces of varied enterprise companions, together with Salesforce, WeWork, T-Cellular and Hackensack Meridian Well being.”

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Been busy, and never the commuting/understanding/doing house responsibilities type of busy that permits you to take heed to podcasts whilst you get stuff performed? Right here’s what you missed in TC podcasts this week:

• On Fairness, Natasha and Alex caught up with the extremely insightful Sarah Guo, who lately launched a $100 million early-stage VC agency after being an investor/accomplice at Greylock for practically a decade.
• Darrell and Jordan have been joined on Discovered by Attabotics founder Scott Gravelle, who detailed how ant colonies impressed his strategy to robotics.
• The Chain Response crew talked about why the SEC is investigating the corporate behind the Bored Ape Yacht Membership NFT assortment and what it may imply for the crypto ecosystem.

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Right here’s what subscribers have been studying most behind the TC+ member paywall this week:

Supliful’s seed deck: “This is without doubt one of the greatest decks I’ve ever seen, regardless of being butt-ugly and riddled with errors,” writes Haje within the newest installment of his in style Pitch Deck Teardown collection.

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