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TechCrunch X faces additional $1.9M fine to end ban in Brazil X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume service in Brazil — if it's willing to pay an additional fine. Reuters and other publications have reported on an order from the country's Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes stating that the Elon Musk-owned social network could "immediately return to its activities in national territory" if it pays a fine of 10 million reais (around $1.9 million). Brazil froze accounts belonging to X and Musk's satellite internet company Starlink in order to pay the fine, but to move forward, Moraes said Starlink needs to drop its appeal against the payments.

Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion Meta Connect 2024 was this week, showcasing new hardware and software to support two of the company's big ambitions: AI and the metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new Quest headsets, updates to Meta's Llama AI model, and real-time video capabilities of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The biggest reveal, though, was Orion, a true AR glasses prototype touted as "the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen." OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced this week that she is leaving the company after more than six years.

Judge rejects Apple's last-minute request for a deadline extension in Epic case Apple tried at the last second to get out of producing a trove of documents by Monday as it was ordered to in its ongoing dispute with Epic, and was denied by Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson.

Meta offers a glimpse through its supposed iPhone killer: Orion For years, Silicon Valley and Wall Street have questioned Mark Zuckerberg's decision to invest tens of billions of dollars into Reality Labs. This week, Meta's wearables division unveiled a prototype of its Orion smart glasses, a form factor the company believes one day could replace the iPhone. Through micro LED projectors and silicon carbide lenses (which are quite expensive), Meta seems to have cracked a longstanding AR display challenge.

Judge is unimpressed by Apple's deadline extension request in Epic Games dispute Apple faces a looming deadline to produce what it says are more than 1 million documents related to recent App Store changes. On Friday, Judge Thomas S. Hixson denied the company's attempt to extend that deadline, describing the request as "bad behavior." So Apple's deadline is still Monday, September 30: "It's up to Apple to figure out how to meet the deadline, but Monday is indeed the deadline." This is just the latest chapter in the ongoing legal dispute between Apple and Fortnite-maker Epic Games, which has been fighting Apple's App Store rules.

Robot hand can detach from arm, crawl over to objects, and pick them up "Beyond Manual Dexterity" is one such video. It wows you in the first few seconds with a highly dexterous robotic gripper, and then things start to go off the rails. The video debuted along with a research paper of the same name at IEEE's International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Rotterdam this week.

Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC While online discourse would make it seem that venture has retreated to the Bay Area, with San Francisco being the most important place to build a startup, Index Ventures is looking to bulk up its New York-based investing team. The firm is currently looking to hire another New York-based investor with plans to add three or four new people to the team within the next year, Shardul Shah, a partner at Index Ventures, told TechCrunch. "For a venture fund, that's hypergrowth," Shah said, adding that Index is trying to "capitalize on the ecosystem here, and the energy we have as a team."