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We have a fun crop of articles today. First up, read Victoria Song's interview with former FTC chair Lina Khan, who tried to stop Meta's disastrous domination of the VR industry. Andy Hawkins breaks down why bad things happen to good EVs, and I reviewed Nothing's flagship-y midrange phone, the 4A Pro. But please don't miss Liz Lopatto's excellent philosophical proof that billionaire Marc Andreesen is, in fact, entirely lacking in consciousness.</p></div></td></tr></table><table
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style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:revert"><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44813730.9150/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3JlcG9ydC84OTY4MjAvbGluYS1raGFuLWZ0Yy1tZXRhLXN1cGVybmF0dXJhbC1hbnRpdHJ1c3Q_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eBbe343064" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Lina Khan was right</a></li><li aria-level="1" style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44813730.9150/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RyYW5zcG9ydGF0aW9uLzg5NzM5OS9hbGwtdGhlLXdyb25nLWV2cy1hcmUtZ2V0dGluZy1jYW5jZWxsZWQ_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eBbd8bd1c3" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">The wrong EVs are getting canceled</a></li><li
style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44813730.9150/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3VuY2F0ZWdvcml6ZWQvODk3NTY2L21hcmMtYW5kcmVlc3Nlbi1pcy1hLXBoaWxvc29waGljYWwtem9tYmllP3VlaWQ9YmM2MjA3MmM3OWFjN2JlOTkwNDIwZTMzMzVkMGM5NTImYnhpZD02OTI3ODMwZDUyZjk3MTM3MjMwNmMxOGU/6927830d52f971372306c18eB94903502" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Marc Andreesen is a philosophical zombie</a></li><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44813730.9150/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RlY2gvODk2NjI2L25vdGhpbmctcGhvbmUtNGEtcHJvLXJldmlldy1kZXNpZ24tc3BlY3MtYmF0dGVyeS1jYW1lcmE_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eB352088c2" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Nothing Phone 4A Pro review</a></li><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0">
<a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44813730.9150/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL2dhbWVzLzg5Nzc2NS92YWx2ZS1zdGVhbW9zLTMtOC11cGRhdGUtc3RlYW0tZGVjay1oaWJlcm5hdGlvbi1zdGVhbS1tYWNoaW5lLXhib3gtYWxseT91ZWlkPWJjNjIwNzJjNzlhYzdiZTk5MDQyMGUzMzM1ZDBjOTUyJmJ4aWQ9NjkyNzgzMGQ1MmY5NzEzNzIzMDZjMThl/6927830d52f971372306c18eB62c65bd9" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Valve's huge SteamOS 3.8 update</a><span style="word-break: break-word; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; background-color: transparent;"> 📲</span></li><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0">
<span style="word-break: break-word; color: #000000;"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44813730.9150/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RlY2gvODk3NDIwL2FuZHJvaWQtc2lkZWxvYWRpbmctdW52ZXJpZmllZC1kZXZlbG9wZXJzLXByb2Nlc3M_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eB128c4031" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Google reveals Android's new sideloading</a> 📰</span></li></ul></div></td></tr></table><table class="divider_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad"
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By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44813730.9150/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3JlcG9ydC84OTY4MjAvbGluYS1raGFuLWZ0Yy1tZXRhLXN1cGVybmF0dXJhbC1hbnRpdHJ1c3Q_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eDbe343064" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Victoria Song</a></p></div></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div
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In 2021, the virtual world was the future of the internet. The pandemic had sequestered everyone indoors, heightening the appeal of digital communities. Facebook rebranded to Meta — a sign of the tech giant’s investment in and commitment to the metaverse as the future of the internet. At the end of the year, it announced its plan to plunk down a rumored $400 million to buy the independent VR gaming studio Within, maker of a popular fitness game called <em>Supernatural</em>. Less than five years later, however, it shut the game down, leaving a community of avid fans bereft.
<br><br>To former FTC chair Lina Khan, there’s a lesson in the ultimate fate of <em>Supernatural</em>, and the community that had grown up around it. She’d know — because she tried and failed to block Meta from acquiring Within.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad"><div class="alignment" align="center">
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These past few weeks have been particularly brutal for the EV industry — and anyone who believes that electric vehicles are the future. Thanks to slowing demand and policy whiplashes, automakers are on an EV murder spree, killing a host of promising new models. The EV graveyard grows bigger by the minute.<br><br>
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“Remember when you didn't need special permission to install software on your own computer? Those were the days.
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The philosophical zombie was a concept closely associated with Australian philosopher David Chalmers, who defines it as “someone or something physically identical to me (or to any other conscious being), but lacking conscious experiences altogether.”</p><p style="margin:0">
For those of you who are not as internet-poisoned as I am, let me recap: A video of Andreessen on David Senra’s podcast has been making the rounds. In the video, Andreessen cheerfully says he has “zero” levels of introspection — “as little as possible.” This is a positive for entrepreneurs, we are told.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td
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CEO Carl Pei says Nothing won’t release a flagship phone this year. So instead we have the 4A Pro, a $499 phone that looks and feels higher-end than last year’s flagship Phone 3, helped in large part by a new metal body.<br><br>
Compare the Phone 4A Pro to its immediate rivals, the Pixel 10A and iPhone 17E, and it looks impressive: a larger, brighter, and faster display; more cameras; and Nothing’s unique design, including the Glyph Matrix rear display. But dig deeper, and the 4A Pro’s compromises are revealed.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad"><div
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