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Why Medium failed

Why Medium failed

Few tech CEOs can claim to have steered the course of online conversation more than Ev Williams. In 1999 he co-founded Blogger, which helped to take blogging mainstream with a well designed, free tool that sold to Google four years later. In 2006 Williams and his co-founder followed with Twitter, which remains one of the …

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How the ride-sharing revolution failed passengers with disabilities

How the ride-sharing revolution failed passengers with disabilities

Itโ€™s the year 2022, and Henry Claypool still has trouble getting ride-sharing companies to send a wheelchair-accessible car to his home. Smartphone apps like Uber and Lyft were supposed to democratize transportation for marginalized groups โ€” but for wheelchair users like Claypool, this was always a false promise. โ€œI live in Arlington, Virginia, still inside …

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Twitter says itโ€™s going to sue Elon Musk for trying to back out of the deal

Twitter says itโ€™s going to sue Elon Musk for trying to back out of the deal

Twitterโ€™s message to Elon Musk after his attempt to bail on his $44 billion agreement to buy the company: weโ€™ll see you in court. โ€œThe Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement,โ€ tweeted …

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Elon Musk officially tries to bail on buying Twitter

Elon Musk officially tries to bail on buying Twitter

Elon Musk is officially trying to pull out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase Twitter. In a filing Friday afternoon with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Muskโ€™s team claims he is terminating the deal because Twitter was in โ€œmaterial breachโ€ of their agreement and had made โ€œfalse and misleadingโ€ statements during negotiations. โ€œFor nearly …

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Itโ€™s looking more like Elon Musk could bail on buying Twitter

Itโ€™s looking more like Elon Musk could bail on buying Twitter

The Washington Post reports that Elon Muskโ€™s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter is โ€œin peril,โ€ based on three anonymous sources who told the paper that the billionaireโ€™s camp has โ€œstopped engaging in certain discussions around fundingโ€ for the agreement. Musk isnโ€™t going it alone in his attempt to buy Twitter, with others like Larry …

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Apps and advertisers are coming for your lock screen, and itโ€™s going to be exhausting

Apps and advertisers are coming for your lock screen, and itโ€™s going to be exhausting

Your phoneโ€™s lock screen is the hottest new real estate in tech. Apple made the iPhoneโ€™s lock screen a centerpiece of iOS 16, giving users more control over how theirs looks and works. But while Apple talked about pretty clock fonts and nifty color-matched wallpapers, it also showed off a world in which your lock …

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Xiaomi put a huge camera sensor in its new Mi 12S Ultra flagship smartphone

Xiaomi put a huge camera sensor in its new Mi 12S Ultra flagship smartphone

Xiaomi is introducing a trio of new smartphones today, and one of them comes with a pretty huge new feature: a 1-inch camera sensor, which is relatively giant for a smartphone. Everything about Xiaomiโ€™s new flagship smartphone, the Mi 12S Ultra, is big. It has a 6.73-inch OLED display, a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen …

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Razerโ€™s Kishi V2 is an improved yet even more imperfect controller

Razerโ€™s Kishi V2 is an improved yet even more imperfect controller

With the Kishi mobile controller that launched in mid-2020, Razer succeeded in turning phones into pseudo-Nintendo Switch consoles. It offered a clever design that sandwiched your phone in the middle of two controllers. Not to mention, it was a more comfortable, console-like way to play mobile games, as well as cloud streaming services, like xCloud, …

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