As we promised after the presentation of Mark Zuckerberg last week, the word “metavsel” sounds more and more often in business news. Now Microsoft has made a request to become the main competitor of Facebook, which was renamed Meta. Today, the company conducted a presentation of its platform for collaboration in virtual reality with the 3D-dutars of Mesh, which in 2022 will be integrated into Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft, after Facebook, spoke about his future metavselnaya As we promised after the presentation of Mark Zuckerberg last week, the word “metavsel” sounds more and more often in business news. Now Microsoft has made a request to become the main competitor of Facebook, which was renamed Meta. Today, the company conducted a presentation of its platform for collaboration in virtual reality with the 3D-dutars of Mesh, which in 2022 will be integrated into Microsoft Teams.

Facebook has decided to completely abandon the system of facial recognition in photos and videos, said the corporation that owns the social network Meta ( former Facebook). The company explained its decision by growing concerns among users and regulators about the safety of using this technology. The facial recognition system will be turned off in the coming weeks. Its individual templates based on 1 billion users will also be removed.

Positive shifts are emerging in Russian-American relations, but "there are plenty of problems," Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov stated at the opening of the 10th annual meeting of the Fort Ross Dialogue Forum. The diplomat proposed to start moving towards a unifying agenda with the mutual "zeroing" of restrictions for diplomatic missions. “Our citizens are experiencing visa difficulties.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' climate change-focused Bezos Earth Fund will allocate $500 million to support green energy, according to the Financial Times. The funds will be received by a joint fund of IKEA and Rockefeller Foundations with already available capital of $1 billion.

Venture investments are always a risk: three of the four startups suffer a fiasco, and 95% develop not as originally conceived. But, having risked, you can increase investments at times. Over the past ten years, the average yield of venture investments was approximately 17.2% per annum, over the 25-year period-32.4%, the The Cambridge Associates Us Venture Capital on December 31, 2020, indicate. This index tracks the results of about 1800 American venture funds.

Nintendo will cut production of its Switch consoles by at least 20%, has learned Nikkei Asia . Today it became known that the problem with the shortage of chips forced Apple to cut production of the iPad. According to Nikkei Asia, citing sources, Nintendo will only be able to produce about 24 million units of the popular Switch game console by the end of the fiscal year to March 2022, which is 20% less than the company's original plan.

Danish AP Moeller-Maersk (Maersk), the world leader in container shipping and port management, reported a new record quarter in its 117-year history. And most importantly, she warned that there was no end in sight to the global logistics crisis. Maersk reported that in the third quarter: The group's revenue increased to $16.6 billion (+68% yoy).

American Internet holding company Yahoo! decided to leave China - the company explained that it was forced to leave the country's market due to the "complicating business and legal environment," writes Bloomberg. The company said in a statement, quoted by the agency, that as of November 1, its services will no longer be available from mainland China. “Yahoo remains committed to the rights of our users and a free and open internet.

Tesla founder Elon Musk said that a contract with car rental operator Hertz for the supply of 100,000 electric vehicles has not yet been signed. On this news, the company's quotes fell by almost 5%. Tweeting that the contract has not been signed and that Tesla does not intend to discount Hertz given the limited offer, Musk responded to a user who thanked the businessman for the rally to $1,200.

The ex-owner of one of the largest contractors of Russian Railways, Spetstransstroy, who participated in the modernization of BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway, was arrested, RBC writes , citing sources. In the summer of 2021, Vladimir Putin instructed to find those responsible for the disruption in the expansion of these railway lines. Yury Reylyan, head of Spetstransstroy, was detained last week, and the businessman is currently under arrest, the newspaper writes.

In the case of the journalist of Kommersant and Vedomosti, adviser to the head of Roskosmos Ivan Safronov, there is a new episode related to the transfer of information to political scientist Demuri Voronin arrested for treason. The new details of the prosecution were reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Safronov's lawyer. According to this information, we are talking about the transfer of data on the Russian Armed Forces in Syria.

In Moscow, due to heavy fog, hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled: by 10.50 Moscow time, more than 200 aircraft did not take off at Moscow airports on time. According to Yandex.Schedule data, at 10:41 Moscow time, 62 flights were delayed at Vnukovo Airport, six were canceled, 57 flights were delayed at Domodedovo, 13 were canceled, 49 were delayed at Sheremetyevo, 15 were canceled. At the same time, a few hours ago, the number of canceled or delayed flights was only about a hundred.

Russia will sign a declaration on the conservation and renewal of forests at the climate forum in Glasgow, writes Bloomberg. According to the agency, Russia will be among the 100 countries that have signed a commitment to deploy deforestation in 9.5 years. These countries account for 85% of the world's forests.

Apple has drastically cut production of the iPad in order to redirect dedicated chips for the iPhone 13, writes Nikkei Asia. It's a sign that the global chip supply crisis has hit the company even harder than it previously indicated. The iPad and iPhone models share a number of common components, including core and peripheral chips. This allows Apple, in certain cases, to redistribute the flow of spare parts between devices.