Earlier this week Meta announced that it would begin testing tools to let creators sell things for real money in Horizon Worlds and would charge a fee of 47.5% of their earnings. The fee structure seemed at odds with prior comments from Meta which have criticized app store fees from the likes of Apple and Google. Now Apple is accusing the company of hypocrisy.

Following the news this week that Meta planned to take nearly half of a creator’s earnings in Horizon Worlds, Apple didn’t miss the chance to point out that this was coming from a company which has on multiple occasions criticized Apple’s app store fee of 30% (after 15% for the first $1 million in annual revenue).

Speaking to MarketWatch, Apple spokesman Fred Sainz had this to say:

Metaverse is estimated to be a multi-trillion dollar industry. Banks can hardly find themselves sitting down when such potential shows up.

This compact solar concentrator could be the perfect daylight harvesting device for Singapore’s underground spaces.

Lutetium-149 undergoes a rare type of radioactive decay.

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A newly created isotope of the silvery metal lutetium has a strange squashed nucleus and a half-life of just a few hundred nanoseconds.

Efficient device is meant to extract electricity from extremely high temperatures.

Circa 2017

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The ability to support the development of a premature fetus in the form of an extracorporeal system has had limited success. Here, the authors show that an extra-uterine device that mimics the intra-uterine environment can provide physiologic support for the extreme premature lamb fetus for four weeks.

High-efficiency modules and large module formats achieve higher market share and larger wafers are established, the 13th edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Photovoltaic (ITRPV) states.