In places without mandates, Amazon will no longer require fully vaccinated warehouse employees to wear masks at work starting Tuesday, an Amazon spokesperson said.
Why it matters: The e-commerce giant has yet to require its workforce to get inoculated against the virus, though it has implemented incentives to drive vaccinations among employees, according to CNBC.
"Fortress Night," the Chinese version of Epic Games' massive hit "Fortnite," is shutting down this month after years of testing an altered version of the game.
Driving the news: The game's team announced the news on its website, noting that "the test of 'Fortress Night' has come to an end," and servers will shut down the morning of Nov. 15.
Amazon on Monday announced plans to launch prototype satellites for its proposed satellite broadband network.
Why it matters: The plans bring Amazon one step closer to building a satellite constellation to provide internet connectivity around the world, rivaling the SpaceX's Starlink service.
Sofar Ocean Technologies, which makes instruments for ocean data collection, has raised $39 million in a Series B syndicate round with Union Square Ventures and the Foundry Group.
Why it matters: Sofar's data could improve the accuracy of weather forecasts and climate monitoring in the world's oceans, which have vast blind spots compared to Earth's land areas.
Digital Currency Group, a crypto conglomerate whose holdings include media site CoinDesk and asset manager Grayscale, raised $700 million in secondary funding at a $10 billion valuation led by SoftBank.
Why it matters: DCG is unlike anything else in crypto; an operating and investment firm with exposure to almost every part of the industry. It also differs from its unicorn peers in that it plans to remain private indefinitely.
Roblox was back online Sunday night following an outage that stretched over three days.
Why it matters: By virtue of Roblox's success, an outage on its service not only affects the virtual world startup but all of the creators who have come to depend on the company, too.
Last week may go down in the Big Tech history books.
Driving the news: Tesla displaced Facebook — which unveiled a new name, Meta Platforms — in the S&P 500’s top five companies by market cap. And Microsoft overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company, for the first time in over a year.
The cavalcade of wonders in Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse show last week left out one crucial screenshot: what your body actually looks like while your mind has gone meta.
The catch: The real you is just sitting in a chair wearing goggles.
The Facebook Papers and whistleblower accounts were a public relations nightmare for Facebook, but so far, the company's core stakeholders — advertisers, users and investors — seem unfazed.
The big picture: For now, this controversy is mainly of interest to the media and lawmakers.
