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Apple and Meta hit with millions in antitrust fines as EU enforces Digital Markets Act
European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.The European Commission imposed a...
The Sun Belt housing market is so weak the largest U.S. homebuilder pulls back
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. The 2025 spring selling season isn’t shaping up the way publicly traded homebuilders had hoped. KB Home, a...
Boaty McBoatface submarine takes NATO-backed quantum tech underwater
UK startup Aquark Technologies has used Boaty McBoatface — the internet’s best-loved submarine — to test its quantum sensing technology underwater for the first time. The NATO-backed company put...
The Download: introducing the Creativity issue
How gamification took over the worldIt’s a thought that occurs to every video-game player at some point: What if the weird, hyper-focused state I enter when playing in virtual...
This Houston startup just won $50 million from Elon Musk’s XPrize for Carbon Removal
When Elon Musk’s foundation sponsored the $100 million XPrize for Carbon Removal—a four-year-long competition to find credible ways to eventually remove a billion tons of CO2—Musk might have expected...
Pinterest is telling teens to stop looking at their mood boards in class
For most social media companies, getting users to doomscroll as much as possible is the name of the game. But Pinterest is now encouraging its young users to put...
Lawtech startup upgrades ‘sovereign legal AI’ amid ‘volatile’ geopolitics
Berlin-based startup Xayn has rebranded itself after its flagship product, “Noxtua” — a “sovereign European legal AI” aimed at law professionals. Alongside its new name, Noxtua has secured €80.7mn...
Designing for Avelo was a dream job. Then the airline partnered with ICE
In 2020, designer and brand strategist Kim Berlin got a call she was not expecting. Her small New York firm was invited to help create the visual identity of...
Why we still need AM radio
Ariel Aberg-Riger is the author of America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History. Source link
3 Things Caiwei Chen is into right now
A new play about OpenAI I recently saw Doomers, a new play by Matthew Gasda about the aborted 2023 coup at OpenAI, here represented by a fictional company called...
