Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you want the old Sonos app back, it’s not coming. In a Reddit AMA response posted Tuesday, Sonos CEO Spence says that he was hopeful “until very recently” that the company could rerelease the app, confirming a report from The Verge that the company was considering doing so. But after testing that option, rereleasing the old app would apparently make things worse, Spence says. Since the new app was released on May 7th, Spence has issued a formal apology and announced in August that the company would be delaying the launch of two products “until our app experience meets the level of quality that we, our customers, and our partners expect from Sonos.” Here’s Spence’s explanation as to why it can’t bring back the old app: The trick of... Continue reading…

How many of those $5 skirts do these retailers have to sell to pay their lawyers? | Image: The Verge The Shein complaint about Temu kicks off with a bang, accusing Temu of being “an unlawful enterprise built on counterfeiting, theft of trade secrets, infringement of intellectual property rights, and fraud” in just the first sentence. But I guess you have to go big when the lawsuit against you accuses you of using “Mafia-style” intimidation tactics. It gets worse, Shein alleges. Temu isn’t a marketplace at all. “It controls every aspect of its seller’s activity,” the complaint says. “It directs what products they can list and the prices for which they can sell; encourages them to infringe the intellectual property rights of others; and even prevents them from removing their products from Temu’s website after they have admitted to... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Today Google announced it’s making assigning group work in Google Classroom easier and faster with a new feature called Student Groups. Teachers will now be able to add individual students to pre-defined groups before creating and assigning group work. Google is entering this school year with a bunch of new updates for the now 10-year-old Classroom platform, like a new Education Navigator, a Read Along feature, and Dark Mode to the mobile app. But teachers have been waiting for something like Student Groups for a long time. Previously, teachers would need to create an assignment first and then individually add students to that assignment if they wanted to assign group work. For occasional group projects, this worked okay, but it was a... Continue reading…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Google will have to face a class action lawsuit that accuses it of collecting users’ data through Chrome without their consent. In a decision on Tuesday, a federal appeals court reversed a December 2022 ruling that dismissed the case, saying the lower court should’ve reviewed Google’s disclosures and determined “whether a reasonable user reading them would think that he or she was consenting to the data collection.” The class action lawsuit, first filed in 2020, alleged that Google collected data from Chrome users — regardless of whether they enabled Chrome sync. This feature saves bookmarks, passwords, open tabs, and other data to your Google account, giving you easy access to this information when signed into Chrome on multiple... Continue reading…

Marie Antoinette's children lived under immense scrutiny and pressure at the lavish palace of Versailles. Their lives, heavily controlled by royal protocol, were drastically altered by the French Revolution. Despite Marie Antoinette's reputation as a devoted mother, her public image suffered due to rumors of infidelity, including claims that her third child, Louis Charles, was fathered by a Swedish diplomat rather than King Louis XVI. Not All Fun and Cake: An Alternative Interpretation of the Life of Queen Marie Antoinette Dozens of Imposters Pretended to be Louis XVII, Marie Antoinette’s Son The revolution brought tragedy to her children. Louis Joseph, her second child and the Dauphin, died at a young age in 1789, leaving Louis Charles as the new heir. However, his title provided no security. Louis Charles was imprisoned, subjected to mistreatment, and forced to accuse his mother of heinous crimes during her trial. Separated from his family, he endured horrific conditions, leading to his decline and eventual death at just 10 years old. Read moreSection: NewsVideosHistoryFamous PeopleRead Later 

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