In win for EU, Amazon will settle high-profile antitrust probes

Enlarge / European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference on Amazon’s antitrust case in November. (credit: Olivier Hoslet / Getty Images) Amazon has reached a final deal with EU antitrust regulators over concerns its use of data undermined rivals, in a move that will close two of the most high-profile probes…

Report: Apple’s mixed reality headset is just a few months away

Enlarge / The “Sword of Damocles” head-mounted display, the original augmented reality headset, circa 1968. (credit: Ivan Sutherland) Apple is wrapping up development of its long-rumored, long-delayed mixed reality headset and is gearing up for a launch as soon as early next year, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman’s weekly newsletter. Recent job listings posted…

The Army’s Black Hawk helicopter replacement is a speedy tiltrotor aircraft

  The V-280 Valor was chosen to be the Army’s next Black-Hawk-type aircraft. Bell Textron The US Army just announced that it has made a historic decision about how its soldiers will be transported around battlefields in the future. After considering two different options—a helicopter from Sikorsky and Boeing and an aircraft from Bell Textron—it…

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FTX and Alameda’s massive investments will take a long time to unwind from crypto industry

Reading the spreadsheet detailing the investment portfolio of Alameda Research, the investment arm of fallen crypto exchange FTX, you wonder how they had time to do anything other than invest given the sheer number of deals recorded. Perhaps that was part of the problem. FTX and its sister company (or parent company, depending on how…

Meta’s Oversight Board comes out swinging against Facebook’s VIP ‘cross-check’ program

The Oversight Board, an independent body set up to review Facebook and Instagram content decisions and policies, slammed the company on Tuesday over its cross-check program. In its statement, the Oversight Board laid out a number of changes Facebook’s parent company Meta should make regarding content moderation across its social media platforms. Cross-check is an…