Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US
Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country. Tweets: @paulg , @anitakissee , @janetheee...
Facebook announces Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting space with avatars, spatial audio, a whiteboard, and more, in beta on Oculus Quest 2
here's how it works Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Work From Borg — Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology … Tristan Greene / TNW : Facebook's Metaverse is just...
Gen Z students are studying together online across YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter, seeking inspiration, finding focus, and sharing academic anxieties
In late 2020, a 10-hour loop of a song from Mario Kart titled “Coconut Mall” started blowing up on Youtube. Tweets: @lkherman , @dianelyssa , @heatherfro , @annehelen , and @dianelyssa Tweets: Lily He...
Substack's decision to pay certain writers to write on the platform is an editorial one as leaders decide what kind of writing they want to support
and do this instead Tweets: @annaleen : Here's why Substack's scam worked so well. They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletters seem lucrative. In my newsletter this week, I talk about how ...
Profile of Substack, whose founders insist it is a platform, not a media company, and say there is less need for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters
Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one? Tweets: @benthompson , @cliomiso , @asymmetricinfo , @can , @bdomenech , @maxwellstrachan , @dandre...
How services like Cameo and Substack have opened up new ways for prominent media figures and journalists to make a living from smaller audiences
a new way for notable individuals to present custom tailored insights and information. It is part of a platform liberation process that will allow valuable journalists, artists, actors—any creative to...
A look at Banjo, which offers Palantir-like tools to flag emergencies, crime, and more using AI and has a 5-year deal with Utah and access to surveillance data
it's off the charts, building a total surveillance state. https://www.vice.com/... Emily Coleman / @editoremilye : Well, this is a nightmare. https://twitter.com/... Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : This...
Third-party sellers from China and other countries are flooding Amazon with thousands of new brands, overwhelming the USPTO as applications soar for trademarks
How Amazon is causing us to drown in trademarks. — Maybe it's cold, and you need some winter gloves. Tweets: @abhabhattarai , @annehelen , and @profcarroll Tweets: Abha Bhattarai / @abhabhattarai : ...
In report, Uber discloses 3,045 sexual assaults, 9 murders, and 58 people killed in crashes out of its 1.3B US rides in 2018
and we need to do more to address the horrific reality of rampant sexual assault happening every day across our country. https://twitter.com/... Ed Bott / @edbott : These are horrible numbers but also...
Slack closes at $38.62, up 48.5% from its $26 reference price, on its first day of trading, valuing the company at about $20B
for Now Reuters : Slack stock surges at debut, values company at more than $25 billion Thomas Franck / CNBC : Slack CEO explains why the company didn't go public with a traditional IPO Shawn Knight / ...