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Last month Android Authority reported Google is developing an NFC-based way to share contact info, files, links, and more, and now it’s got the interface running. Unlike Apple’s NameDrop, users have to hold the two phones above one another, perhaps to account for how varied NFC chip placement can be on Android devices.

TikTok star Khaby Lame sold his personal brand to a small, relatively unknown company called “Rich Sparkle Holdings.” Instead of handing him $975 million in cash, they paid him in stock. Fans piled in, causing the price to skyrocket, briefly making Lame a paper billionaire (several times over) before the price plummeted. It’s now looking suspiciously like a “pump-and-dump” scheme, causing trading apps to freeze the stock. 🤷‍♂️

Anthropic’s shared, agentic AI workspace for macOS and Windows is getting much-needed tools for IT admins to do company-wide deployments, letting anyone build and deploy autonomous workflows so long as their organization is on a paid plan. It now adds the ability to turn Zoom meeting transcripts into action items.

The stores are all located in struggling shopping malls. Employees at the non-union shops can transfer to nearby stores, but union workers from Towson, Maryland can apply for open roles. Apple says this is due to their collective bargain agreement, which the union disputes, threatening legal action.

Now that a jury has ruled against Meta and YouTube in a landmark trial, the sharks are circling, and what better place to find potential clients than on those social media platforms? The only problem is that Axios reports Meta pulled “more than a dozen” such ads from firms like Morgan & Morgan and Sokolove Law on Thursday.

As part of an accessibility pilot program, you can link an app from a platform called Cephable with your game to control it with alternative input methods. Check out how it works in this video.

You might not be able to fly on an Artemis mission, but you could help them navigate transitions across the gravity on Earth, in transit, and on the Moon. Navy researchers are seeking volunteers to help find out “how the brain and inner ear respond to motion and to space motion sickness mitigation techniques” using an Air Force centrifuge:

As Ticketmaster wraps up its antitrust defense, a different ticketing company is in the government’s crosshairs. The Federal Trade Commission accused StubHub of failing to show customers the full cost of tickets upfront, and the settlement would require clearer disclosure. StubHub spokesperson Jack Sterne said the settlement “covers a limited number of transactions” across three days, and though they disagree with the FTC’s view, “we are addressing their concerns by refunding a portion of those buyers’ fees.”