Top tech news for Monday, December 5th, 2022

“Metaverse” misplaced phrase of the yr to “goblin mode.”

In what can solely be unhealthy information for Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual-reality desires, the writer behind Oxford English Dictionary introduced the outcomes of its phrase of the yr ballot. In a three-way matchup between “metaverse,” “goblin mode,” and “#istandwith,” metaverse took dwelling simply 4 % of the vote.

Goblin mode — a phrase I’ve completely seen on TikTok, Twitter, and information articles about its use on TikTok and Twitter — got here in first with an awesome 93 %. I stay up for Meta’s 2023 pivot to Goblin, Inc.