Kim Kardashian’s crypto token ad didn’t follow the rules. | Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission kept up with the Kardashians. The crypto crackdown has come for Kim Kardashian. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced...
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Elon Musk’s texts offer a rare glimpse at the billionaire boys’ club
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the 2022 Met Gala in New York City. | Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Messages released in Twitter’s lawsuit against the Tesla founder show some of the nation’s wealthiest people offered...
Tech billionaires lost $315 billion in 2022 and it genuinely doesn’t matter
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos at the Schick Xtreme III Tennis Challenge in Seattle, Washington, in 2001. | Robert Sorbo/Sygma via Getty Images Losing billions hasn’t erased the wild gains they made since the start of the pandemic. It’s been...
Chips are the new oil. There are no reserves.
Getty Images/iStockphoto Computer chips are ubiquitous, but they’re only made in a few places. In a single day, we interact with hundreds of computer chips, most no larger than a penny. These tiny circuits power everything from smartphones and laptops...
The mysterious ad slump of 2022
Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Four theories on why ad sales are plummeting even as the economy is doing fine. Not every truism is true, but there’s one for the ad industry that is pretty truthy: When the economy goes south, the...
The universe is a dangerous place. NASA just showed it’s possible to defend Earth against it.
The asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. | NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Humanity now has the beginnings of a true defense against asteroids. At 7:14 EDT Monday night, something historic happened for the human...
Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy
Amanda Northrop/Vox The ultrawealthy are donating more than ever. That doesn’t mean the rest of us are giving less. Over the past two decades, fewer and fewer Americans have given to charity. In 2000, roughly two-thirds of American households gave...
Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands
A robot sorts and stacks bins at an Amazon fulfillment center in Eastvale on August 31, 2021. | Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images A new Amazon robot handles 1,000 items an hour. In 2019, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos...
“The party is over”: How Meta and Google are using recession fears to clean house
An interior view of office space with an indoor climbing wall at the Googleplex, the corporate headquarters of Google, in Mountain View, California. | Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images It looks like the boom days are fading in Big...
Remote workers are wasting their time proving they’re actually working
A person visits an art installation titled “Garden of Eden” representing an abandoned workspace. | Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images “Productivity theater” is getting worse. People who work from home say they’re working, and numerous objective studies show that’s true. But many...