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Europe to ‘assess’ Adobe’s proposed $20B Figma acquisition on competition grounds

TechCrunch

Adobe’s proposed plan to snap up digital design rival Figma for $20 billion has attracted the attentions of the European Commission (EC), which announced today that the proposed merger potentially “threatens to significantly affect competition in the market for interactive product design and whiteboarding software.”

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Uber pledges to shift to ‘100 percent’ electric vehicles by 2030

The Verge

The mayor of Denmark capital Copenhagen went so far as to propose a ban on diesel cars in the city last year that would go into effect by the end of 2019; Copenhagen has since tempered its proposal to aim for net-zero carbon emissions and carbon neutrality by 2025.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

The app’s enforcement policy says that tweets with such labels will not show up in search results, recommendations or timelines — those tweets will be hidden in both the “For You” and “Following timelines. It’s not clear if the company is applying the same policy to personal accounts.

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This ambitious proposal would radically reinvent Europe’s rail system

Fast Company Tech

This is the vision for Starline , a proposal to reinvent the European high-speed rail network into a single seamless system. Starline proposes five main routes, with 39 stations and at least one in every European country, and connecting hubs in major cities like Paris, Berlin, and Milan. “Networks are good within nations.

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Greenlanders unite against Trump as they seek independence from Denmark

Fast Company Tech

” Island of anxiety Greenlanders are increasingly worried that their homeland, a self-governing region of Denmark, has become a pawn in the competition between the U.S., Greenland, part of Denmark since 1721, has been moving toward independence for decades. They don’t want to trade Denmark for an American overlord.

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California will ban new combustion-engine vehicles starting in 2035

The Verge

The order is part of a package of policy changes aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions as California deals with a rash of deadly wildfires. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an ambitious executive order Wednesday that would ban the sale of new combustion-engine vehicles in the state starting in 2035, the Desert Sun reports.