Month: July 2022

A Delaware judge rules that Twitter’s case against Elon Musk over the failed $44B takeover will go to trial from October 17 to October 21 (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Richard Lawler / The Verge: A Delaware judge rules that Twitter’s case against Elon Musk over the failed $44B takeover will go to trial from October 17 to October 21  —  Everybody’s going to the Court of Chancery  —  We have a schedule for the Delaware Court of Chancery trial over T witter’s lawsuit against

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Sources: Lina Khan overruled FTC staff to sue Meta over its Within acquisition; FTC didn’t take sworn interviews of company execs during the nine-month inquiry (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: Lina Khan overruled FTC staff to sue Meta over its Within acquisition; FTC didn’t take sworn interviews of company execs during the nine-month inquiry  —  Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan led her fellow Democrats in the agency’s majority vote to sue Meta Platforms Inc. this week …

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FTC staff reportedly recommended against suing Meta

Image: Supernatural / Within Federal Trade Commission head Lina Khan overruled staff advice to intervene in a Meta virtual reality studio acquisition, Bloomberg reports. Sources reportedly told Bloomberg that staff had been “recommending against” suing to block Meta’s acquisition of Within, which makes the popular VR fitness app Supernatural. The FTC voted 3 to 2

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Go Big Or Go Home: 0.6 mm Nozzles are the Future

Most desktop fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printers these days use a 0.4 mm nozzle. While many people have tried smaller nozzles to get finer detail and much larger nozzles to get faster printing speed, most people stick with the stock value as a good trade-off between the two. That’s the conventional wisdom, anyway. However,

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Moon Pod: The Next-Generation Chair 

Originally funded on Kickstarter, the Moon Pod is a unique, long, amorphous-shaped bean bag that has taken the internet by storm. With a futuristic design and zero-gravity beads, it only makes sense that this next-generation chair has grabbed the attention of many. John Fiorentino, the creator of the Moon Pod, has also been behind many

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Kylie Jenner can’t save Instagram forever

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge In early May, the Meta executive in charge of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, shared some news: the social media app’s main feed would start looking dramatically different to some users. For those in a small test group, the feed they’d been using for a decade would be replaced with

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Twitter says it had ~60K legal demands globally in H2 2021 and it complied fully with ~40% of requests; the US accounted for 20% of account information requests (Amanda Seitz/Associated Press)

Amanda Seitz / Associated Press: Twitter says it had ~60K legal demands globally in H2 2021 and it complied fully with ~40% of requests; the US accounted for 20% of account information requests  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove content or snoop …

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Pop quiz: How well do you know your Pixels?

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google has been making Pixel phones for seven years now. They are best known for their photography skills, clean UI, and long-term software updates, but they also carry a bunch of exclusive features that sometimes trickle down to other Android phones. All-in-all, the Pixels have a lot going for

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White House Launches Website to Help People Deal With Heatwaves

(Photo: Raphael Wild/Unsplash)In response to the unprecedented number of heatwaves rocking the globe, the White House has launched a new website aimed at helping Americans weather high temperatures. The site, HEAT.gov, houses an almost overwhelming amount of information about extreme heat. Visual tools, like the Heat-Related Illness and Temperature map—which displays regional rates of first

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By stepping away from Ant Group, Jack Ma escapes Beijing’s scrutiny; Ma has been seen traveling Europe after disappearing from public view for almost two years (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: By stepping away from Ant Group, Jack Ma escapes Beijing’s scrutiny; Ma has been seen traveling Europe after disappearing from public view for almost two years  —  Jack Ma is taking a weeks-long tour in Europe after largely disappearing from public view for almost two years …

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