An African elephant throws mud onto itself at the Mpala Research Center and Wildlife Foundation, near Rumuruti, Laikipia District, Kenya. Elephants have been shown to communicate using infrasound, which exists below the human range of hearing, and new technology is...
Category: Internet & technology
The Big Tech boom is over and Wall Street knows it
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York on October 11, 2022. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Meta and the rest aren’t going away, but now they’re big boring companies. Maybe that’s not...
Quitting Elon
Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing “Cyber Rodeo” grand opening party in Austin on April 7, where throngs of electric car lovers attended a huge party inaugurating the “gigafactory.” | Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk’s...
Adidas, Kanye, and the $4 billion sneakerhead industry
Getty/Brad Barket/Vox Resellers turned Yeezys into a goldmine for sneaker resale sites. What happens now? Adidas ended its seven-year business partnership with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, earlier this week after the artist made a series of antisemitic remarks...
What happens to your Twitter data now that Elon’s taken over
Soon-to-be-Twitter owner Elon Musk walks into Twitter HQ with a sink, because he can. | Elon Musk/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk owns your DMs, but he may not be Twitter’s biggest privacy risk. Elon Musk’s Twitter buyout is a...
Where do restaurant “service fees” really go?
Your restaurant service fee might not be going to the server. | Dion Lee/Vox Service charges are making dining out more expensive, but that doesn’t mean your server sees that cash. Service charges have become commonplace for things like online...
Elon Musk owns Twitter. Now what?
After months of back and forth, Elon Musk now officially owns Twitter. | Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP via Getty Images Musk has tweeted a lot of ideas about how he plans to change Twitter. Here are some of the most significant ones....
Why Amazon’s stock price is tanking — and why that should worry you
The holiday season should be Amazon’s best. This year may be different. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images The tech giant warned that businesses are cutting spending and customers are tightening their belts. Amazon’s stock price fell as much as 20 percent...
What happens to your Twitter data when Elon takes over
Soon-to-be-Twitter owner Elon Musk walks into Twitter HQ with a sink, because he can. | Elon Musk/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is about to own your DMs, but he may not be Twitter’s biggest privacy risk. Editor’s note, October...
TikTok won’t stop serving me horror and death
TikTok’s algorithm is sending me some really dark things. | Amanda Northrop/Vox For You: The worst things that have ever happened to everyone else. TikTok’s all-powerful, all-knowing algorithm appears to have decided that I want to see some of the...