People posing for a group photo outside of Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. | Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images Though the company’s stock jumped, it’s still facing big challenges from Apple, TikTok, and younger users. Meta had...
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The forgotten victims of the Adderall shortage
Dion Lee/Vox People with narcolepsy need stimulants, too. But many pharmacy shelves are empty. Kelsey can’t do her job without her medication. The resident physician in Wisconsin, who is in her early 30s, takes the generic version of a stimulant...
The case for better-seats-cost-more movie tickets
Magic Mike’s Last Dance. | Claudette Barius/Warner Bros. AMC’s new plan is ... good? Let’s say I want to take myself to see Magic Mike’s Last Dance on Friday at the AMC 34th Street theater in Manhattan. Could happen! And...
Layoffs are making LinkedIn the new hot social network
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...
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...