Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg bets you’ll be hearing the word “metaverse” a lot in the next few years, and his company’s big virtual reality and augmented reality event Tuesday will be a big part of why.

The social media giant is betting so much on the metaverse that last year it renamed itself Meta, after the virtual worlds where people can meet up with strangers, friends and family. The question now is whether anyone else will want to join up.

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This year, Zuckerberg is planning to show off his company’s latest VR headseta device designed for professional use rather than the somewhat popular $400 Meta Quest device for everyday consumers. Meta is also likely to announce a series of new apps and partnerships, as it has in previous years when showing off new games and experiences meant to entity people to try its devices.

Zuckerberg may have other surprises up his sleeve. Last year, the company formerly known as Facebook surprised the tech world with its sudden rebranding.

Here’s everything you need to know about Meta Connect:

The conference is scheduled to kick off Tuesday at 10 am PT/1 pm ET.

CNET will host its own live show on Tuesday. At 9 am PT, CNET will feature videos about Meta Connect. And then at 9:30 am PT, we’ll have a live panel with rumors, analysis and commentary leading up to the event.

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Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has criticized companies “racing” to commercialize AI art generators, saying firms aren’t thinking through the potential legal and ethical hazards of the technology.

In an interview with The Verge, Peters reiterated Getty Images’ rule against selling AI content (which it banned in September), while announcing a new partnership between the company and Israeli firm Bria to offer AI-powered image editing tools. Getty Images’ stance on AI-generated content marks a clear difference with rival Shutterstock, which announced today it will be integrating AI art generator DALL-E directly into its site’s offerings.

“We took a step around AI-generated imagery to protect our customers,” Peters told The Verge. “There’s a lot of questions out there right now — about who owns the copyright to that material, about the rights that were leveraged to create that material — and we don’t want to put our customers into that legal risk area […] There have been assertions that copyright is owned by x, y, z, by certain platforms, but I don’t think those questions have been answered.”

Peters added: “I think we’re watching some organizations and individuals and companies being reckless […] I think the fact that these questions are not being addressed is the issue here. In some case, they’re just being thrown to the wayside. I think that’s dangerous. I don’t think it’s responsible. I think it could be illegal.”

Many AI art generators are trained on data

Welcome, guys and ghouls, to Marvel’s Halloween special on Disney Plus. One-hour one-off Werewolf by Night is frankly fun (see CNET’s review) and also something very different for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Let’s dive into the comic book references, salute the tributes to classic horror and speculate about what’s next for Gael García Bernal’s Jack Russell and Laura Donnelly’s Elsa Bloodstone.

Werewolf by Night is streaming now. Read on… if you dare! (Not because this article is scary, just because of spoilers).

What’s the ending about?

Monster hunters have gathered at the home of the late Ulysses Bloodstone to claim the Bloodstone, a supernatural super-weapon that’s the source of the family’s power. But the hunter with the most kills, Jack Russell, is not the deadly slayer he professes to be: Instead of killing creatures, he frees them. With Elsa’s help, Jack helps the hunt’s prey escape, revealing the tentacled terror Man-Thing is more of a gentle giant (named Ted). In the process, Jack is captured and forced by the Bloodstone to transform into a monstrous alter ego of his own: He’s the comic book character Werewolf By Night.

Before transforming, Jack gets up close and personal to Elsa’s scent, in the hope his bestial form remembers her — a trick that’s only worked once before, which suggests an interesting story from his past. Fortunately it works, and the werewolf and Elsa hack and slash their way through the remaining hunters and henchmen. Elsa claims the Bloodstone as her

Microsoft has been unifying its OneNote and OneNote for Windows 10 apps into a single app over the past year, and now there’s only one version of OneNote in the Windows store. The great OneNote merge, as I call it, has seen some features from the UWP OneNote for Windows 10 app arrive in the traditional OneNote desktop app, alongside a visual refresh, too.

Now, Microsoft wants to make sure you download the correct version of OneNote moving forward. “OneNote for Windows 10 will no longer be available in the Microsoft Store,” explains the OneNote team in a blog post. “It will continue to work, but it will not get new feature updates and will reach end-of-support in October 2025.” If you still need to download the OneNote UWP version to a new device, you can technically still use the as a workaround.

Inking and dictation have both arrived in this main OneNote app in recent months, along with a simplified single line ribbon that makes the main interface feel a little less cluttered. But this full OneNote app still doesn’t feel as lightweight and touch-friendly as the OneNote version for Windows 10. That’s a shame, because OneNote for Windows 10 was one of Microsoft’s better UWP apps, even if the company has largely given up on its Universal Windows Platform app dream.