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Elon Musk’s decision to walk away from his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc. TWTR -5.10% after weeks of criticizing the company leaves the bruised social-media platform reeling in the midst of an already challenging period.An avid user of the platform and the world’s richest man, Mr. Musk offered a premium to buy the company when he agreed to the takeover in April. While the company has signaled it plans to hold him to the agreement,…

Three weeks ago, I shut down my trusty Microsoft Surface 2-in-1 to embark on a daring experiment – using an Android tablet as my primary computing device. More specifically, I mean using the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 as my sole work machine. It might sound outlandish, but to my surprise, I came out with a mostly positive experience. Yes, there were a few frustrations, but the Galaxy Tab S8 gave me numerous reasons to believe that Android tablets are not the lost cause that many out there think. The Android tablet…

TikTok says it’s a “significant milestone” toward its promises to beef up the security of its US users’ data. In a new update, the company says it has “changed the default storage location of US user data.” As the company notes, it had already stored much of its user data in the United States, at a Virginia-based data center. But under a new partnership with Oracle, the company has migrated US user traffic to a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Today, 100% of US user traffic is being routed to Oracle Cloud…

Image: Photograph by Aaron Epstein/HBO MaxHBO Max kicked off Pride Month by announcing a second season of Our Flag Means Death, a pirate workplace comedy that centers queer romance and characters. The renewal, announced via press release, comes in the wake of the show spending nearly 10 weeks on the top of the in-demand streaming charts. For a show with almost no marketing except word-of-mouth, that’s not bad.Our Flag Means Death is the brainchild of David Jenkins, who previously created 2016’s People of Earth. He found…

Ahead of Pachinko’s season 1 finale, Apple has just renewed its adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel for a second season. Today, Apple announced that it’s moving forward with more of series creator Soo Hugh’s multigenerational story about a family of Korean immigrants surviving and thriving in Japan throughout the 20th century. In a press release about the renewal, Hugh was mum about what’s next for Pachinko, but she called out the show’s fandom for having been vocal about its desire for more. “Words cannot…