The federal government seems increasingly likely to take action on platform giants such as Facebook and Google. Antitrust intervention has emerged as the likely focal point of such efforts. Just listen to Mark Zuckerberg.But is antitrust enforcement able to address the range of concerns that these platforms present? How does antitrust address the problem of…

We can start with the honorifics. HP calls the Omen X 2S the “world’s first dual-screen gaming laptop”—presumably with no apologies whatsoever to the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo (not a gaming machine) nor to Razer’s Blade R2 or its Project Valerie (technically triple-screen and not really in existence).With that out of the way, we can…

Microsoft surprised just about everyone this week by showing off a pair of new mobile devices with two screens apiece. The pocketable Surface Duo and the tablet-like Surface Neo won't actually go on sale for at least one year, but Microsoft trotted the devices out anyway to signal how it's positioning its future in the…

The storm formerly known as Hurricane Lorenzo is blasting Ireland and the United Kingdom today with winds up to 80 miles per hour, heavy rain, and flooding. Lorenzo meandered in a comma-shaped path from the Azores to the British Isles as it grew to Category 4 strength before weakening slightly on Wednesday (and losing its…

Remember when e-cigarettes were supposed to be the safer way to smoke? With cases of a mysterious, sometimes lethal respiratory illness on the rise, that myth has gone up in a cloud of … vapor. Fearful of being reduced to wheezing, bed-ridden hospital patients, a growing number of users are trying to kick their vaping…

Friday, October 4, 2019. By Lars Kenseth, with cartooncollections.com. Seriously, though, don’t write your passwords down—use one of these password managers instead. Thursday, October 3, 2019. By Ellis Rosen, with cartooncollections.com. Deepfakes are getting better, but for now experts say they remain relatively easy to spot. Wednesday, October 2, 2019. By Tom Chitty, with cartooncollections.com.…

This past spring, on one of those LA nights where anything seems possible and the hours unzip with no concrete end, as if the night might actually go on forever, I ambled down Sunset Boulevard in a sticky hallucinogenic trance. Hours earlier I’d eaten a small corner of a chocolate edible given to me by…

PayPal is the first company to walk away from Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency. PayPal’s decision to take its ball and go home was first reported by The Wall Street Journal .…

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Amazon Web Services for annual members of Extra Crunch. Starting today, qualified annual members can receive $1,000 in AWS credits. You also…

At age 27, Jordan Fudge is quietly making a splash in the VC world. Fudge is the managing partner of Sinai Ventures, a multi-stage VC fund that manages $100 million…