This year’s holiday season, scammers are trying to trick us into giving up our credit card numbers by dangling free Yeti coolers in front of us. | Denis Novikov/Getty Images Sorry, no one is actually going to give you a...
Category: Internet & technology
A leaked Amazon memo may help explain why the tech giant is pushing out so many recruiters
Jeff Bezos speaks at the 2018 opening of the Amazon Spheres complex in downtown Seattle. | Ted S. Warren/AP Amazon has quietly been developing AI software to screen job applicants. Last week, Amazon extended buyout offers to hundreds of its...
Elon Musk has Twitter and Tesla problems
Visual China Group via Getty Images Issues at Tesla are piling up while its boss is distracted by his new company. It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and Tesla is in trouble. Share prices for the electric carmaker are down more...
Stop taking billionaires at their word
Getty Images/iStockphoto Why do we keep believing things that are too good to be true? In 1984 — the book, not the year — the means by which the evil totalitarian regime “Big Brother” retains its power is through something...
FTX is over. Is crypto, too?
FTX’s collapse turns crypto winter into the crypto ice age. | Anna Shalygina/Getty Images/iStockphoto Crypto is the cat with nine lives, but some wonder if FTX might be the last one. It would be easy to write crypto’s obituary right...
The White House’s plan to colonize the moon, briefly explained
An artist’s rendering of Artemis base camp. | NASA Putting humans on the moon is more political than you might think. The first mission in NASA’s Artemis program finally took the Orion spacecraft on a trip around the moon, a...
Elon Musk can’t get his story straight on Twitter
So far, Musk seems better at breaking Twitter than fixing it. | Twitter account of Elon Musk/AFP via Getty Images All the times Twitter’s Chief Flip-Flopper has gone back on his word. Since Elon Musk first offered to buy Twitter...
Trump’s return to Twitter prompts outrage and confusion
Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that former President Donald Trump is allowed back on the social media app. | Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images But no new tweets from Trump. Donald Trump is allowed back on his longtime social...
Bob Iger’s Disney challenge: Solve the problem he helped create
Bob Iger at the Code Conference, September 2022. | Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media The new CEO helped kick off the streaming era when he was the old CEO. Now Wall Street wants something else. Disney’s new CEO is...
The collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried’s shocking downfall
Sam Bankman-Fried. | Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images He was one of the crypto industry’s biggest stars. Now his crypto exchange, FTX, has filed for bankruptcy. Sam Bankman-Fried — better known as SBF — is facing a reckoning over the...