Christina Animashaun/Vox Recode spoke with the secretary of transportation about winning over rural drivers and surmounting other roadblocks to the EV transition. The electric vehicle revolution has a problem: There aren’t enough EVs or chargers. General Motors’ planned production of...
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You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t.
The same people sending workers back to the office get to keep working from home. | CSA Images/Getty Images Bosses are ordering people back to the office from the comfort of their own homes. The relationship between rank-and-file office workers...
The $1,500 ticket to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse
Meta’s new Quest Pro headset device is its first mixed reality headset. | Courtesy of Meta Mark Zuckerberg wants you to work in the metaverse. It will cost you. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, released its long-awaited new...
Legs are finally coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse
An avatar image of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presenting at the company’s Connect conference in October 2022. | Meta The tech CEO said getting it right will be “hard.” Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company will be taking a major...
Everyone wants a tip now. Do you have to give them one?
Getty Images/Vox Thanks to touchscreens and the pandemic, tipflation is everywhere — and it’s hard to say no. Jenny Kivett went to see the band War on Drugs at Colorado’s storied Red Rocks Amphitheater last month. The show was great....
What it’s like to graduate college in this economy
New grads have reason to be excited about the job market. | Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Soon-to-be college grads are optimistic about their job prospects. They should be. Big tech companies like Facebook and Google...
Elon Musk can’t fix Twitter because no one can
Elon Musk at the Met Gala, May 2022. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images A $44 billion mistake. We still have lots of questions and theories about Elon Musk’s on-off-on-again deal to buy Twitter. But there’s one thing that everyone...
A Twitter trial would expose Elon Musk to scrutiny. Buying Twitter might help him avoid it.
Elon Musk at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas, April 2022. | Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images The billionaire might buy Twitter after all — and for once not get his way. Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter. Then he didn’t. Now,...
This year’s physics Nobel Prize went to pioneers in quantum tech. Here’s how their work could change the world.
The inside of an IBM System One quantum computer. | Bryan Walsh/Vox A brief guide to the weird and revolutionary world of quantum computers. Quantum computing is one of those technologies of the future — like nuclear fusion power or...
Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter again, spam bots and all
Elon Musk at a Norwegian energy summit, August 2022. | Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP via Getty Images The world’s richest man has a $44 billion change of heart. (Maybe.) Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Again. The world’s richest...