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The Delaware Court of Chancery grants Twitter an expedited five-day trial in October in its lawsuit against Elon Musk, who wanted the trial to begin in 2023 (CNBC)

CNBC: The Delaware Court of Chancery grants Twitter an expedited five-day trial in October in its lawsuit against Elon Musk, who wanted the trial to begin in 2023  —  – Twitter won its motion for an expedited trial in its lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday.  — Delaware Court …

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Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook’s News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook’s News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy  —  Senior executive Campbell Brown told employees that products will be ‘put on the backburner’  —  Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook …

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Xbox’s ‘Grounded’ is getting an animated TV adaption

Image: Xbox Grounded, the survival co-op that combines elements of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and A Bug’s Life, is getting an animated TV adaptation, as first reported by Deadline. Brent Friedman of Star Wars: Clone Wars will write the story, with Halo 4’s Brien Goodrich sitting in the director’s chair. Grounded was developed by

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Google’s prototype augmented reality glasses are going outside

Google is going to test AR devices in the real world soon. | Image: Google Google is planning to test augmented reality (AR) prototypes in public beginning next month, the company announced Tuesday. Google has been exploring concepts like AR glasses that show translations in real time, but the company wants to take its ideas

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Instagram adds a searchable map for exploring nearby popular tagged locations, which can be filtered by restaurants, cafes, beauty salons, and other categories (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram adds a searchable map for exploring nearby popular tagged locations, which can be filtered by restaurants, cafes, beauty salons, and other categories  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is introducing a new searchable and dynamic map experience on Instagram.

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Lightyear will be available to stream on Disney Plus in August

Buzz Lightyear in Lightyear. | Image: Disney / Pixar Lightyear, Disney and Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear-focused movie that hit theaters in June, will be available to stream on Disney Plus beginning August 3rd. Get ready to blast off with Disney and Pixar’s #Lightyear, streaming August 3 only on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/K75UdXQQrg — Disney+ (@disneyplus) July 19, 2022

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Twitch is launching a new charity fundraising tool

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is launching a new built-in fundraising tool called Twitch Charity to make it easier for streamers to run charity streams. Many streamers and organizations put on charity streams to help raise funds for causes they support. Right now, streamers often pledge donations, subscriptions, and Bits (Twitch’s virtual

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BeReal, the social photo sharing app launched in 2020 in France, is the No. 1 free app in the US App Store; Sensor Tower says it has topped 20M downloads (Christopher Zara/Fast Company)

Christopher Zara / Fast Company: BeReal, the social photo sharing app launched in 2020 in France, is the No. 1 free app in the US App Store; Sensor Tower says it has topped 20M downloads  —  No doubt you’ve seen the innumerable recent hot takes about BeReal.  The French photo app, launched in early 2020

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Blizzard QA workers in Albany are organizing Activision’s second union

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The QA department at Blizzard Albany, the studio formerly known as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2’s Vicarious Visions, has become the second QA department within Activision Blizzard to organize a union. Today, we announce a new union at Activision Blizzard. QA is currently an undervalued discipline

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A company called Meta is suing Meta for naming itself Meta

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October, there were a few concerns that the company was planning to dominate the nascent metaverse — but there’s one aggrieved party that’s only now going public. An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) announced Tuesday that it will be

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Memo to staff: healthcare administration automation startup Olive AI, valued at $4B in July 2021, is laying off 450 employees, or about 31% of the company (Erin Brodwin/Axios)

Erin Brodwin / Axios: Memo to staff: healthcare administration automation startup Olive AI, valued at $4B in July 2021, is laying off 450 employees, or about 31% of the company  —  Exit Content Preview … – “Our fast-paced growth and lack of focus strained our product and engineering resources and prevented us …

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PlayStation outage meant some PS5, PS4 owners couldn’t start games or access multiplayer

The cat from Stray. | Image: Annapurna Interactive The PlayStation Network experienced some issues on Tuesday. At the time, Sony’s PlayStation status page said that says that things like launching games, buying, downloading, and browsing games, and signing in to your account may have been impacted. The issues popped up just a few hours after

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Google and Oracle report some of their cloud servers in the UK are temporarily offline, blaming cooling failures amid the country’s record-breaking heatwave (Katyanna Quach/The Register)

Katyanna Quach / The Register: Google and Oracle report some of their cloud servers in the UK are temporarily offline, blaming cooling failures amid the country’s record-breaking heatwave  —  Clouds burst as nation hits 40C  —  Cloud services and servers hosted by Google and Oracle in the UK have fallen offline due …

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Sources: Neuralink co-founder Paul Merolla departs the Musk-backed startup, the latest in a string of departures at the brain implant startup (Rachael Levy/Reuters)

Rachael Levy / Reuters: Sources: Neuralink co-founder Paul Merolla departs the Musk-backed startup, the latest in a string of departures at the brain implant startup  —  A founding member of Elon Musk’s Neuralink left the company in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter …

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Internal documents show Facebook and Google discussing platform strategies

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New internal documents released Tuesday detail how three of Big Tech’s most prominent companies favored their own products as a means of stamping out competition. Their release comes as lawmakers push to approve stronger antitrust legislation by the end of the year. The documents were obtained by the

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