This Week In Techdirt History: September 14th – 20th
Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, the first phase of the TikTok fight resolved with Oracle getting a lucrative hosting deal instead of buying the company in a deal driven by Trump-world insiders, whil...
Trump announces skilled worker visas will now cost $100,000
All the fawning by tech CEOs wasn’t enough to convince Donald Trump to back off his crusade against immigrants. Yesterday the president announced that the government would be adding a $100,00...
Prime members can get three months of Kindle Unlimited for free
A three-month Kindle Unlimited subscription is free for Amazon Prime members right now.
A cool new perk recently became available for Prime members: for a limited time, you can get a three-month...
The wafer-thin iPhone Air is surprisingly strong
They’ll Need A Crane.
You’d be forgiven for assuming the iPhone Air would snap like a twig under pressure. It’s almost impossibly thin at just 5.6mm. But, its titanium frame is not only st...
The US government is taking a second stab at breaking up Google
Starting Monday, the US government will get another crack at convincing a federal judge to break up Google, after a different judge decided to keep it intact despite finding it to be a monopoli...
