Facebook will hire 10,000 European engineers to create a metaverse
The American company Facebook said it wants to hire 10,000 European engineers to create the metaverse. New technologies, according to the developers, will make interaction on the Internet as close as possible to personal communication, reports TASS. “Today we announce our plans to create new jobs in the EU over the next five years. This is a vote of confidence in the strength of the European technology industry and the potential of European technical talent, ”reads the circulated press release.
Note that Facebook is working to create a new computing platform that will use virtual and augmented reality.
Meanwhile, millions of users at the beginning of October experienced Black Monday, when for several hours they could neither flip through the feed, nor chat in messengers, nor post another photo. Users of Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp looked confused. There was deathly silence in the services. It was seven hours that shook the world and spawned many memes.
But there were also those who benefited from the current situation. More than 70 million new users registered in Telegram per day against the backdrop of a large-scale failure in Facebook services. The founder of the messenger Pavel Durov emphasized that the messenger coped with the influx of new users with dignity. Work slower than usual was observed except in the Americas. Also, the father of Telegram turned to “old” users with a request to help new visitors settle in, who may find many things unusual and incomprehensible.
