Meta’s brutal earnings report helps explain its metaverse shift

How much will Quibi’s content fetch?

This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.  Good morning, and welcome to 2021. While many of us would like to cut a clean break with 2020, that won’t be the case for Quibi. Yes, Quibi, the […]

Tom Holland is a dashing young fortune hunter in Uncharted trailer

Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg star as fortune hunters in Uncharted, an origin story for the hugely popular video game franchise. Sony Pictures has released the official trailer for Uncharted, its long-awaited adaptation based on the hugely popular action/adventure video game franchise of the same name. Movies based on video game franchises can be hit […]

More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned for free cryptocurrency

Enlarge / People in Chile with Worldcoin’s “Orb” iris scanner. (credit: Worldcoin) More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, as a project to distribute digital money more widely around the world accelerates. Worldcoin has distributed about 30 iris-scanning hardware devices, which they call “orbs,” to early […]