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Nike is moving on from CEO John Donahoe less than a week after Bloomberg published its unflatteringly-titled profile of his four-year tenure.

Under Donahoe, Nike de-emphasized retail stores to chase direct sales, flooded the market with retros like the Panda Dunks, and put the RTFKT NFT shoe brand on the same level as the Swoosh and Jordan Jumpman.

Today’s announcement doesn’t include the RTFKT logo.

Maybe Apple should have waited to do this until next month?

According to Wired:

Principal filming for 28 Years Later wrapped at the end of August, and until now the production has kept under wraps the fact that the movie was shot with smartphones, with the film’s staff being asked to signed NDAs preventing the disclosure of this detail.

The Flappy Bird Foundation posted a long statement to “clear the air,” but much of it was focused on how the foundation acquired the Flappy Bird trademark after Dong Nguyen abandoned the game. Nguyen has already said he is not involved with the revival.

The statement also doesn’t address the crypto concerns surrounding the project.

The Walmart Holiday Deals event will last longer than Amazon’s two-day Prime Big Deal Days sale, kicking off on October 8th and running through October 13th. It’ll also be open to all, though paid Walmart Plus members will get early access.

Walmart says the deals will include tablets, consoles, and other gadgets from brands like Apple, Samsung, and PlayStation.

Google will let you make birthday events directly in Google Calendar, starting on Android and coming to web and iOS “in the future.”

If you don’t have a Steam account but want to buy a Steam Deck for someone, Valve now lets you complete a Steam Deck purchase as a guest. Could be useful for the holidays.

“Unfortunately sick as hell” describes the whole package, but I’d even buy this cable solo.

About as much water as a single-use bottle holds, the The Washington Post reports. The electricity it takes is about as much as 14 LED light bulbs might burn through in an hour.

These are rough estimates, but they come with helpful illustrations to show the environmental costs of operating data centers for new AI tools.

I’ve been going to this extremely wonky and jargon-y trial almost every day, and I joined Decoder to translate the highlights so far. The trial — which is only accessible in-person from an Alexandria, VA courtroom — is in its second week. Google is expected to start calling witnesses any day now, once the Justice Department wraps its chief case.

A quick hands-on comparison by The Verge’s action camera expert. It’s going to be hard to justify paying $50 more for the new GoPro flagship now that DJI’s rival is here.