From The Verge: A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on the grounds that it is likely to violate the First Amendment. The order, issued by a federal district court in Austin on Wednesday night, granted an injunction proposed...

From PC Mag: Barnes & Noble has unexpectedly revealed it's launching a new e-reader next week in the form of the Nook GlowLight 4.

It's been a couple of years since B&N updated its e-reader range, with the 7.8-inch GlowLight Plus launching in 2019, and the 6-inch GlowLight 3 in 2018. This new e...

From CNET: Maybe the old name was falling flat. Maybe the company felt it needed to demonstrate some depth. Whatever the case, Square Inc. is changing its name to Block. The name change won't affect the company's merchant payment processing platform, also called Square.

The new styling has a logic...

From The Verge: Nuro, a leader in autonomous delivery vehicles, is kicking off a new service in California in partnership with 7-Eleven. The company will deliver convenience store products to customers in its autonomous Toyota Prius vehicles, which will include a safety driver behind the wheel...

From PC Mag: "We couldn't do it ourselves. We needed partners like you."

Google's head of Android, Hiroshi Lockheimer, showed up in person at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit to reaffirm the two companies' partnership, shortly after Google appeared to ditch Qualcomm for its own Tensor chipset in its...

From CNET: Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet service, is testing its offering with "several aircraft," according to a Tuesday report by Bloomberg. The hope is that the company will provide in-flight connection for airlines "as soon as possible," Starlink vice president of commercial sales...

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS Intelligent Cloud Services (AICS) today introduced five smart medical solutions during its AICS Medical Open House. The xHIS platform, the Lumos EMR search platform, the Drug Safety Service, the Miraico smart medical coding assistant and the Personal Healthcare App have...

From PC Mag: Microsoft is giving gamers a new reason to try using the Edge browser, and it's quite a compelling one.

Milena Gonzalez, Program Manager at Xbox, revealed a new partnership with the Microsoft Edge team has allowed Xbox Cloud Gaming to be improved specifically for Edge. It means anyone...

From The Verge: NBA Top Shot moments are one of the most high-profile NFT successes so far, part of the initial early hype wave for the blockchain-based art that’s become one of the biggest buzzwords of 2021. And thanks to a new partnership with Infinite Objects, Top Shot owners will soon be able to...

From CNET: The UK Competition and Markets Authority is expected to block Meta's $315 million acquisition of Giphy in the near future, the Financial Times reported Monday. Meta, previously known as Facebook, moved to buy the online GIF platform in May 2020.

However, the UK regulator expressed...