People are sharing more about being laid off on LinkedIn than before. | Dion Lee/Vox, Getty Images, Shutterstock Vulnerability is having a moment on the platform as mass layoffs hit the tech industry. When Rob Fishman, a former account executive...
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It’s official. Trump is back on Facebook and Instagram.
Former US President Donald Trump. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images The former president and promoter of the “big lie” is Facebook’s problem again. Meta is letting its most controversial user — former President Donald Trump — back on Facebook and Instagram....
Silicon Valley’s vibe shift
A worker rides a bike at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on January 30, 2023. | Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty Images A vibe shift is underway in Silicon Valley amid growing fears of a recession, slowing growth after record...
Last year’s Super Bowl ads aged like milk
A billboard advertising Super Bowl LVII in the Arizona desert. | Christian Petersen/Getty Images Don’t expect to see any crypto ads this year. Super Bowl LVI was only a year ago, but when you look at some of the ads...
The rise of the fancy freelancer
Getty Images / Vox Amid tech layoffs, contract work isn’t looking so bad. Christine Ruiz left her 9-to-5 job last summer to do the same work as a contractor instead. In both places, she’s a compliance manager, the person who...
Google is scrambling to catch up to Bing, of all things
Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella introduces Bing, now with AI. | Courtesy of Dan DeLong/Microsoft Google bookended Microsoft’s big AI search announcement with underwhelming AI news of its own. Microsoft has officially taken the lead in the race to...
Here comes Bard, Google’s version of ChatGPT
Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a blog post on Monday announcing the company is releasing a new conversational AI tool. | Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images The new AI chat bot is available to “trusted testers” for now and will...
The trials of Elon Musk
Elon Musk leaving court in San Francisco, California on February 3, 2023. | Bloomberg/Contributor A jury found the Tesla CEO not liable in a shareholder lawsuit, but the case revealed a lot about Musk’s refusal to back down. Elon Musk...
The 747 is out. Green airplanes are in.
Two transonic truss-braced wing airplanes in flight. | Boeing NASA has a plan to “skip a generation” of passenger aircraft design to fight climate change. After more than 50 years in production, the final 747 is taking to the skies....
GoodRx made money off your health data. The FTC is making it pay.
Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan is finding new ways to take on an old problem: digital privacy. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images More like BadRx. GoodRx has not been very good at your privacy. And now...