Twitter lays off about half its staff, sending a “Your Role at Twitter” email to their company account for those staying and personal account for those leaving
which was maybe ~80-100 people — is down to just two people after layoffs today.... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Here's the first official communication from Twitter's new leadership to its staff, a we...
Brookings: US tech jobs remain concentrated in coastal hubs but 36 other cities, including Philadelphia, had stronger tech job growth than before the pandemic
Caitlin Harrington / Wired : Tweets: @caitharr and @louisgray Tweets: Caitlin Harrington / @caitharr : New @BrookingsInst data finds that tech workers didn't flee tech hubs en masse during the pandem...
Safari's extremely slow pace in adopting popular features and fixing showstopping bugs, and refusal to engage with contentious API proposals, is harming the web
Features not implemented are not dangerous —'Safari is the next IE' is well supported by many bugs —Ignoring Chrome proposals without engaging or alternative offers, makes the problem worse https://ht...
Matt Mullenweg denounces Wix's bizarre marketing campaign against WordPress and says Wix's business model “is getting customers to pay more and more every year”
@photomatt, founding developer of @WordPress https://ma.tt/... #FuckWix (I like the sound of that) Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Those Wix ads are in poor taste for a company who has failed to deliv...
Microsoft says it will begin a limited reopening of its Redmond HQ on March 29 and plans a future focus on hybrid workplaces
are we ready? Sean Endicott / Windows Central : Teams will soon support quoting messages and signing documents Lisa Ardill / Silicon Republic : Microsoft prepares to reopen offices with a focus on hyb...
Profile of Bret Taylor, Salesforce's new COO and the architect of its $27.7B acquisition of Slack, who might one day succeed Marc Benioff as CEO of the company
Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle : Tweets: @owenthomas , @martinsfp , @cherylszee , @jeffjarvis , @zlurie , @sfchronicle , @louisgray , @hbrucejohnson , @demianbulwa , and @kfury Tweets: Owen Th...
MoviePass says it is shutting down and ending service for all subscribers on Saturday, September 14
As of Saturday September 14, 2019, MoviePass has moviepassed on. Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : It's Curtains on the MoviePass Grift Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : MoviePass will officially shut down on...
Advances in 3D image processing and image sensors, which are progressing at a Moore's Law-like pace, will make lidar redundant for self-driving cars in 3 years
steve cheney : Tweets: @louisgray , @stevecheney , @stevecheney , @stevecheney , and @stevecheney Tweets: Louis Gray / @louisgray : There are a lot of $TSLA bulls (and bears) out there. @stevecheney ...
The Internet Archive stores a total of 22 petabytes, adds four petabytes per year, and uses ~7K processes crawling the web to capture 1.5B items per week
Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica : Tweets: @louisgray Tweets: Louis Gray / @louisgray : The @internetarchive has 22 petabytes of archived information. With proper backups, that's 44 petabytes of data. T...
VCs invested over $300M last year in startups building apps, monitoring devices, and services to improve sleep
TechCrunch : Tweets: @raju , @alex , and @louisgray Tweets: Raju Narisetti / @raju : Guaranteed to lose a lot of sleep over about $275 million of that... http://twitter.com/... @alex : Via @jglasner ...