Tag: Tech
Here’s All The Latest On The Drama At Twitter
The New York Times reports on SpaceX workers experiencing something familiar: retribution for criticizing Musk. Nine workers were fired over the summer in connection with an open letter condemning Musk’s “harmful Twitter behavior” — specifically his making light of an Insider report that he had paid to settle a sexual…
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Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, And Steph Curry Are Being Sued Over Their Promotion Of The Cryptocurrency Company FTX
It is not the first time that celebrities have found themselves under scrutiny for promoting digital currencies. Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had fined Kim Kardashian $1.26 million for failing to disclose that she had been paid for posting an ad for crypto on her…
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Just FYI, BeReal May Be Revealing More About Your Location Than You Think
The location data isn’t perfectly precise. (In the image above, my friend was actually inside the building across the street from his image.) But if you know the person, that approximate location can tell you if they’re home, at work, or at a friend’s house. It’s pretty likely you didn’t…
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Mass Layoffs Are Happening At Amazon
Amazon yesterday began laying off employees, beginning with its Devices & Services division, which makes products like Alexa, Echo speakers, Fire TV, Ring cameras, and cloud gaming service Luna. The e-commerce giant this week reportedly will lay off about 10,000 workers, or roughly 3% of its corporate employees, the largest…
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Poll: When Do You Think Twitter Will Go Down?
Things are not looking so good for Twitter right now. Since Elon Musk fired half the company’s staff, the employees who remain have been scrambling to keep the site actually working. To make matters worse, when Musk isn’t firing even more people — for, say, speaking ill of him on…
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The Crypto-Ignorant Person’s Guide To What’s Going On With FTX And Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
While the crypto industry has a reputation for bad behavior and scams, FTX held itself up as one of the grown-ups. It lobbied for more effective government regulation of crypto and offered to bail out other firms when they went bust. Who owns it? The company was founded in 2019…
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