Can we bring malls into the metaverse? [Protocol]
Epic’s Tim Sweeney Wants to Break Down Digital Walls in Gaming [TechMeme]
The next big bottleneck in the global vaccination effort [AXIOS]
NFT is one of three tech-based words to make Collins’s longer list of 10 words of the year. The others are metaverse—the concept Facebook steadfastly committed to, and even changed its name for—and crypto, the slang for cryptocurrency. [Quartz]
Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse [Recode]
The childhood phones that broke our hearts [TheNextWeb]
Eater’s Guide to Holiday Shopping [Eater]
How to Support Your Employees' Mental Health During the Holidays [Inc.]
Who is in charge of giving workers the right to disconnect? It’s complicated [Fast Company]
#WeAcceptCrypto — How and Why Crypto Supports Small Business [Medium]
Many To Get Fourth Coronavirus Stimulus Check of up to $1,800 Before Christmas [Entrepreneur]
The 22 Best Black Friday Weekend Deals on Coffee Makers and Gear [WIRED]
This Week in Tech - Episode 850 [TWIT]
Keep it chill this holiday with new tools from Google Maps [Google Blog]
Predicting Text Selections with Federated Learning [Google AI Blog]
A Utopia of Useful Things [Lapham’s Quarterly]
The Sky This Week: Last Quarter Moon in the morning [Astronomy Mag]
Sustainability in Numbers | SAP Cares [SAP]

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