Twitter is rolling out auto-generated captions on videos starting today. The feature will make videos more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. The captions will be available on web, iOS and Android in over 30 languages. Twitter won't let users tweak its captions, which means users won't be able to correct any errors.

Apple is poised to lead the move into the metaverse with a wearable device that could become as ubiquitous as AirPods, and the iPhone before it. Apple is perfectly placed to replay its iPhone success by replacing the smartphone with AR. Apple CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly stressed that AR is a ‘core technology’ for the company.

You might notice a new look on some of your favorite celebrities' social media profiles. Icons including Steph Curry, Jimmy Fallon and Post Malone have updated their pages with an image of a Bored Ape. They're all members of the Bored Ape Yacht Club – an avatar, an online social club and one of the latest virtual status symbols to emerge in 2021.

Research teams at Intel on Saturday unveiled work that the company believes will help it keep speeding up and shrinking computing chips over the next ten years, with several technologies aimed at stacking parts of chips on top of each other.

Amazon's outage rekindled a debate on how to minimize the impact of an outage. An emerging company called HashiCorp went public two days after the Amazon snafu. The company's software helps engineers set up resources in multiple clouds. Hashi Corp. closed its second day of trading with a market cap of over $15 billion.

Google has warned apps which fail to comply with its data policy face being banned. Huq admitted to BBC that at least two app partners had not sought correct permissions. App partnerships and sharing of data with third-parties under increased scrutiny. Google introduced a new user data policy in October informing apps of how data is used.

Erica Cloud, an assembly line worker at Tesla, filed a lawsuit in California’s Alameda County Superior Court. She claims that she experienced “continuous and pervasive” sexual harassment in the factory where she worked. This comes just one month after Jessica Barraza, a production associate at Tesla filed a suit accusing the company of ‘rampant sexual harassment’

Metaverse is the buzzword of the season. Facebook kicked off the craze with a video at its Connect conference in October. Dedric Reid has been selling his own version of the metaverse for the past five years. He describes it as a persistent, decentralized space filled with life and change.

Microsoft's M12 Venture Fund is leading a $27 million bet on NFT studio Palm. The funding will be used to scale the company's operations with new hires. Palm works with companies and brands to help them create NFT projects. It's exactly the type of service that Microsoft sees potential in – on an enterprise level.

Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) reported upbeat second-quarter results on Thursday, as the IT-services turned cloud solutions player benefited from a rebound in tech spending from businesses looking to support hybrid work.

TikTok is investing in social e-commerce in the UK. It's already held some livestream shopping with brands over the Black Friday weekend. It is now producing and hosting its own two-day event anchored by Rylan Clark-Neal. TikTok already has more than a billion monthly global users.

Imagine that we’re living in 2030. Now try to imagine how different things will be. Do you picture flying cars, supersonic travel, robots walking among us, spending big parts of our days in the metaverse?