Metaverse is definitely a hot area for Internet 3.0. Tech giants are competing in metaverse field, for example, Facebook, as a social networking magnate, has changed the “Face” as “Meta”, and Tencent, Google, Bytedance and Microsoft are all taking actions. So why is metaverse so attractive to these big companies and capitals? Why can it go viral on the Internet?

Zuckerberg holds his annual Connect conference on October 28 at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters. During the meeting, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would change its name to "Meta" and that it would invest $100 billion in metaverse in 2022. And that the company's stock code would change from "FB" to "MVRS" from December 1. A new name, Meta, and a new LOGO similar to the "Infinity" symbol were born, marking the opening of a new era of the metaverse that belonged to Zuckerberg.

Bayer and OrigiMed (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (referred to as "OrigiMed") today announced a strategic collaboration for the development and commercialization of NGS-based companion diagnostics – in vitro diagnostic (CDx-IVD) in China for detection of NTRK gene fusions. This collaboration will focus on developing a CDx-IVD for larotrectinib (Vitrakvi®) for the Chinese market, the first TRK inhibitor appr